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DOSB reaffirms: Election of the Bureau in December

The Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI)-- or, in English, the International Women s Sports Federation-- was founded in October 1921 by Alice Milliat because of the objection of existing sporting activities organisations, such as the International Olympic Committee as well as the International Amateur Athletics Federation, to let females compete in sports, particularly at an international degree. The German Olympic Sports Federation is expected to receive a new Bureau in December. The DOSB reaffirmed this plan on Sunday after a meeting of Bureau, Executive Board and Mumbine Groups. The decision made in December to carry out early elections for the entire Bureau in December, was confirmed again today, it said in a message of the DOSB. On 4 December in Weimar, not only the succession of DOSB President Alfons Hörmann should be regulated. The 61-year-old had announced his withdrawal at the end of the year in early summer due to an anonymous letter, in which he had been accu...

Table tennis: Women's team loses game around bronze

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The German table tennis women have missed the hoped-for medal in the team competition at the Olympic Games. Petrissa Solja, Han Ying and Shan Xiaona documents Hong Kong in the game around Bronze with 1: 3 and went empty after the second defeat in a row. In 2016 in Rio, the team of Federal Trainer Jie Schöpp had also won silver. "That hurts. Fourth place is incredibly ungrateful, in the end we have no medal," European champion said Solja. Schöpf, which after nine years after Olympia stops as a national trainer, was also disappointed: "We did not get rid of the pressure. My players fought against themselves and their fears - and unfortunately not won." Solja and Shan Xiaona (Langstadt / Berlin) made a perfect start when they won the double against Doo Hoi Kem / Lee Ho Ching with 3: 1 after lost first sentence. Defense strategist Han Ying (Düsseldorf / Tarnobrzeg), however, lost their singles against Minnie Soo Wai Yam (1: 3), also Sportsoldatin Solja had to be bea...