How sports and clubs react to the 2G Plus rule

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How sports and clubs react to the 2G Plus rule

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Can I still do indoor sports next week?
Photo: Lammertz, Thomas (lamm)

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Krefeld The West German Table Tennis Association has interrupted the season. All other sports will continue training and games for the time being. We are eagerly awaiting further political decisions on Friday.

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The corona pandemic has a significant impact on sport, not only on professionals, but also on amateur and amateur athletes. Since December 28th, the 2G-Plus rule has been in effect for indoor sports, in which only vaccinated or recovered people who can also show a negative test can participate. Can regular training operations be ensured under these conditions? What does this mean for the preparation? Should the season be continued or interrupted or even canceled? We checked out different indoor sports at various clubs.

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Handball “It is important that there is not a complete lockdown in the sport,” says Christian Bruchhaus, supervisor of the men of the St. Tönis gymnastics club. “During the entire corona pandemic, we were constantly given new tasks in order to implement them. So the regulation again presents us with great challenges, but we want to keep the sport going. ”At the St. Tönis gymnastics club, you can see problems with test capacities in a small town, but also the additional workload for the athletes. Coach Ingo Häußler also sees problems for the female handball players at Adler Königshof. “We have to see who will then come to the training and who can realize the additional effort. I also see difficulties with games on Sunday evening, because the players would all have to be tested in such a way that the test is still valid at the end of the game. “

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ice Hockey The KEV 81 is in full swing. All training units take place. This week there are additional training units for the children and young people in the mornings because of the school holidays. Since there is no compulsory vaccination for children and adolescents under 18 years of age in sport, a negative test, which must not be older than 24 hours, is sufficient. “With us, all players in the U17, U20 and U23 are vaccinated twice,” reports KEV sports chairman Elmar Schmitz. These players independently visit a test center on the way to training. “I hope that we will be able to keep all the teams and players in training and matches over the next few weeks.”

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Hockey Matthias Mahn from the Crefelder HTC reports: “We have already practiced the 2G-Plus rule internally since the beginning of the season, both in training and in games, and we would like to play. There will now be a query from all players across the league and then a decision will be made. “So far, individual games have been postponed to January due to chains of infection within the teams. “After the break, we are faced with an uncertain infection situation within the game operations of the national leagues,” says Sebastian Schwidder, manager of the game organization of the Bundesliga hockey league. In order to get a better overview of the infection situation among the teams, the league is now asking all players and coaching teams to carry out a quick test and to submit the anonymized result by Tuesday afternoon. On this basis, the task force will make a decision about the further operation of the game.

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Table tennis The West German Table Tennis Association (WTTV) has already responded to the state’s new regulation and suspended games in all game and age groups – including its districts and districts – until January 31. However, if two teams agree to play against each other during this period, the event would be possible. At Bayer 05 Uerdingen, department head Ralf Schages is happy that all teams can continue to train. And for the first men’s team, which plays in the major league, there are even games, as only the WTTV interrupts the season and the German Table Tennis Association (DTTB) keeps the game going for the time being. “We are happy that we can continue training after returning to our home hall. This is particularly important for children and young people, but ultimately also for our senior citizens, ”says Schages. Manfred Klühs, the managing director of the Anrath table tennis club Rot-Weiß 1947, sees it similarly. “We can continue to pursue our sport, even if we now have more effort. We had to check the vaccination status beforehand anyway, now we also have to check and document the current test result. “

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Volleyball Verberger TV does not train this week because the hall is closed for the holidays. Training with the 2G-Plus rule is to be continued in the next week. “Why this rule applies in the sports hall but not in the office is difficult to understand,” said chairman Jan Moertter, criticizing the lack of uniformity. “But we will train and play until the association makes a different decision. But if the Prime Minister’s Conference on Friday should decide what is now the case in Schleswig-Holstein, that only a maximum of ten people are allowed to meet, then the decision has been made and the season is over. “

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Basketball At SC Bayer 05 Uerdingen, two youth teams, the female U14 and the male U16, have already trained under the new conditions between Christmas and New Year. “That worked out brilliantly. We’ll continue like this and hope that we can continue to practice our sport, ”says Emily Miller.

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