The first Olympic decision has been made.
As BILD learned, Dennis Schröder (30) will lead the German team as flag bearer at the opening ceremony on Friday! The FAZ first reported on this.
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Basketball world champion Schröder is only the second flag bearer without previous Olympic experience after Dirk Nowitzki (46).
Schröder had previously stated: “That would mean everything to me. To be able to represent Germany like that, with my origins, my mother from Gambia, would be enormous. It would make a statement to carry the flag as a dark-skinned person.”
The NBA star prevailed in the voting against Olympic tennis champion Alexander Zverev (27) and sports shooter Christian Reitz (37), who won gold in 2016 and bronze in 2008.
Dennis Schröder won the election with 103.54 points ahead of Zverev (57.57) and Reitz (38.89).
National coach Gordon Herbert (65) told BILD: “This is fantastic news for German basketball and for Dennis.”
Olympic champion Anna-Maria Wagner
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On Tuesday afternoon, the DOSB officially announced Schröder as flag bearer – and judoka Anna-Maria Wagner (28) as flag bearer.
The two-time bronze medalist from Tokyo secured the election with 80.01 points ahead of football player Alexandra Popp (74.01) and dressage rider Jessica von Bredow-Werndel (45.98)
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This is how the voting went: Over 500,000 fans and the 470 German Olympic athletes voted separately. The percentage results of both groups were added together at the end.
2024-07-24 10:14:47
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