{"id":4243,"date":"2019-11-18T09:52:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T08:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ma57.dk\/?p=4243"},"modified":"2022-08-16T09:53:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T07:53:26","slug":"the-dream-that-was-crushed-by-power-politics-and-a-foolished-rental-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ma57.dk\/en\/the-dream-that-was-crushed-by-power-politics-and-a-foolished-rental-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"The dream that was crushed by power politics and a foolished rental contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months ago, Team Denmark published a press release stating \u201c\u2026 that Team Denmark and the Sports Conferation of Denmark (DIF) at a common board meeting decided to lift the vision of building a national elite sports center in Copenhagen to a comprehensive solution involving the whole country\u201d and beyond \u201d \u2026 that Team Denmark establishes innovation centers in Aarhus, Odense, Aalborg and Copenhagen, that will cover all parts of Denmark. At the new innovation centers, coaches, athletes and researchers will be able to meet and develop new knowledge about nutrition, physiology. sports psychology, testing and other topics that can give athletes and coaches competitive advantages \u201d.<\/p>\n

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The decision is not least due to a big grant of DKK 100 million in autumn 2018 from the Novo Nordic Foundation to Team Denmark. The Novo Nordic Foundations\u2019 press release states that \u201c\u2026 DKK 50 million is a targeted establishment of state-of-the-art facilities to be used in connection with sports research, eg. altitude hotel, climate room and other training facilities, where the equipment provides the opportunity to monitor athletes\u2019 performance during training and competitions. The appropriation for these special facilities is conditional on Team Denmark obtaining support from other foundations by the end of 2020 to establish a building that can accommodate the special facilities \u201d.<\/p>\n

More than one explanation of new strategy<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, there is another explanation for why the dream of a national elite sports center in Copenhagen unfortunately only seems to become a building at the University of Copenhagen that can accommodate the special facilities. Anyone who has been involved in elite sports research at international level is fully aware that a grant of DKK 50 million does not do any wonders.<\/p>\n

There were many reasons why Kjeld Rasmussen, Br\u00f8ndby\u2019s mayor from 1966 to 2005, has the record as Denmark\u2019s longest-serving mayor. One of the main reasons was that Rasmussen was a very big fan of sports, which in particular Br\u00f8ndby IF \u2013 one of Denmark\u2019s most winning football clubs \u2013 has enjoyed for more than half a century. In addition, the Social Democratic mayor quickly realized that municipal investment in sports facilities and contracts with external partners could be the way to stable revenue in the budget of the municipality.<\/p>\n

One of Rasmussen\u2019s most \u201cbrilliant\u201d rental contracts was signed with the Sports Conferation of Denmark (DIF) in the early 1970\u2019s, when Br\u00f8ndby Municipality and DIF entered into a rental contract for \u201cThe House of Sports\u201d on a field in the Western part of the Copenhagen. The building, which was opened in 1974, was the property of DIF, but located on a rented land that belongs to Br\u00f8ndby Municipality and which can only be returned in the year 2060 \u2013 ie in 41 years. In addition, today\u2019s \u201cThe House of Sports\u201d has a loan that far exceeds the real market value of the facilities.<\/p>\n

The House of Sport \u2013 a cold administration building where athletes and coaches do not have first priority<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are probably not many people who would describe \u201cThe House of Sports\u201d as a visionary and sustainable sports facility with a strong focus on the wants and needs of athletes and coaches. And there are probably not many people who find the location of \u201cThe House of Sports\u201d appropriate in relation to public transport. Furthermore, DIF has never succeeded in developing \u201cThe Sports House\u201d for anything more than an administration building. These three factors were also the reasons why, in my opinion, the location of a national elite sports center in Br\u00f8ndby would be as foolish as DIF\u2019s rental contract with Br\u00f8ndby Municipality.<\/p>\n

The world\u2019s best sports nations have pooled resources on Campus<\/strong><\/p>\n

The dream of a national elite sports center in Denmark was first discussed at Team Denmark\u2019s board meeting in late 2011. The example was similar centers in some of the world\u2019s best sports nations with the size of Denmark: Australia, Norway and New Zealand, which with great success had gathered largely all the necessary resources in the common facilities: Athletes, coaches, experts such as doctors, physiotherapists, dietitians, sports psychologists and not least researchers who were either employed at the Australian Institute of Sport and the University of Canberra (Australia), the \u201cOlympiatoppen\u201d and the Norwegian School of Sport in Oslo or High Performance Sport New Zealand and the University of Auckland in New Zealand \u2013 on a campus.<\/p>\n

The vision and content of a national elite sports center was first discussed at a board meeting in Team Denmark in November 2011. At a board meeting in February 2013, I suggested to the board that Team Denmark should prepare an analysis with a cost of approx. DKK 1 million about a possible location of a national elite sports center, either at the Royal Arena in \u00d8restaden or at the Parken and \u00d8sterbro Stadium with the \u201cRigshospitalet\u201d and the University of Copenhagen within walking distance. This statement definitely did not go down well with the board and management of DIF, who in the days leading up to the board meeting was in close contact with all of Team Denmark\u2019s board members. The consequence of the hectic activity by telephone of the chairman of DIF was a non-decision at Team Denmark\u2019s board meeting. The decision about the national elite sport center was sent to \u201ccorner kick\u201d and the meeting became one of the blackest chapters in Team Denmark\u2019s history. From that moment, I also lost hope and belief in a national elite sports center in Copenhagen outside \u201cThe Sports House\u201d.<\/p>\n

Waste of resources on non-existent potentials<\/strong><\/p>\n

For more than six years, Team Denmark and DIF have \u201cworked on\u201d the visions of a national elite sports center. The visions and contents of the vision is described in the report: \u201cNational Elite Sports Center in Denmark \u2013 Phase 2, February 2017). In addition, in 2017, DIF and Team Denmark hired a\u201cproject director\u201d, who was to be a front figure in realizing the vision, objectives and strategies in the report. The \u201cproject director\u2019s\u201d contract has now stopped with the decision of DIF and Team Denmark to change the dream of a national elite sports center with all the functions and resources gathered has been \u201claid in the grave\u201d. In my opinion, Denmark has no sporting or research potential or resources to build or develop 4 \u201cinnovation centers\u201d in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Odense and Aalborg \u2013 unless the four municipalities and the four universities finance the vast majority of the financial resources for the centers.<\/p>\n

Kjeld Rasmussen \u2013 the \u201cKing of the Br\u00f8ndby Municipality\u201d for several decades \u2013 was a very wise and action-oriented mayor, but I actually think he would be genuinely sorry that the lease contract between DIF and Br\u00f8ndby Municipality became an ever-present obstacle to the best solution for Denmark\u2019s best athletes: A national elite sports center in Copenhagen \u2013 but outside Br\u00f8ndby Municipality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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