Hamburg remains stable: NOlympia!
She became in back rooms Planned and now presented to the public: The Hamburg Senate today Hamburg's Olympic bid for the 2036, 2040 and 2044 Summer Games. At the beginning of the year, it was said that they only wanted to apply with Berlin in a double pack in order to save costs and resources.1 But now no other city really wants to play with Hamburg, so the Hanseatic city is supposed to land the mega-event Olympic Games alone again: Welcome to the next round of Olympic madness!
That Hamburg doesn't have a single Olympic stadium? It's a gift! That neither Hamburg's central station nor the airport would withstand an Olympic crowd? Who is interested? That less than ten years ago, more than half of the population spoke out against this IOC event, despite and because of a massive pro-campaign from politics and business? It is ignored! Instead, old wine is presented to us in old tubes: Hamburg already has everything or conjures something temporary out of its hat (as if it weren't wasting resources). And this time it's really the most sustainable and well-calculated Olympic bid ever and so on and so forth.
Profit maximization through mega-events instead of social urban development for all
Once again, the red-green Senate pulls a megaproject out of the drawer as a supposed development engine and shows that the needs of the Hamburgers are completely sniffy for it. Rising rents, poverty, impending climate catastrophe? Who cares if you can attract the attention of the world public for a few weeks. And conveniently, the Hamburg construction and real estate industry is also very happy about fat profits.
The dramatic social consequences of the Olympic Games can be seen in the example of Paris: According to local NGOs, around 20,000 people were directly displaced there in connection with the games. There are similar reports from Tokyo and other venues.2
NOlympia Hamburg is back in town!
The fact that a majority of Hamburgers decided against the Olympic madness in 2015 proved to be a stroke of luck for the city. Although cost explosions were already foreseeable at that time, no one could know how dramatically the construction costs would develop as a result of the coronavirus and the war in Ukraine. The ruins of the "Kurzer Olaf" building on the Elbbrücken bridges are the best example of what Hamburg's SPD and Green Party politicians have experienced over and over again with their megalomania. Even with a new Hamburg Olympic bid, you have to be very naive to believe the assertions that the city has the costs under control. A typical example of this is Brisbane: Contrary to what was promised earlier, the Queensland government recently announced that a new 63,000-seat stadium would be built there.3
Ten years ago, we did not believe the windy promises of the Fire and Flame Group, which at that time started with the slogan ‘There are only once’. We promise today: NOlympia Hamburg is back. For the second time we say NO to Olympia from the bottom of our hearts and for Hamburg!
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