German Athlete Suspected of Right-Wing Ties

[Leliana]

A female rower on Germany's Olympic team has left London after rumours surfaced that she was in a relationship with a neo-Nazi.

Nadja Drygalla, 23, left after a long conversation with German Olympic officials about the allegations that her boyfriend was a leading member of the “Rostock National Socialists” and had fought a state election for a neo-Nazi party.

“Ms Drygalla declared at the end of our conversation that she would leave the Olympic village in order not to be a burden for the Olympic team. The German Rowing Association welcomes this decision,” said Michael Vesper chef de Mission of the German Olympic Association.

The rumours had also led to Drygalla leaving her training position with the police, Die Welt newspaper reported on Friday.

http://www.thelocal.de/sport/20120803-44147.html

Uhm, in what kind of 'attitude/views dictature' do we live that people are held responsible for their partners? George Orwell's 1984 is now! That her husband is a member of the rightextremist party NPD shouldn't be a problem: The political party is still legal and not forbidden!

I doubt that athlets who were in a relationship with a leftwing or socialist party would be held responsible for their partner and had to leave the Olympic Games!

[rhiannon]

I agree with you, Leliana. This is total bullshit. She is not her partner's keeper

The more I have been reading on here lately regarding Germany, the more it is dawning on me that they are suffering from a real self-hatred problem. I can think of no other way to put it, and it is terrible to see.

I cannot begin to imagine how you as a proud German feels, witnessing this shit all around you in your own homeland. For this, I am sorry

[Sarmatian]

I do not expect any better from any kind of official. They are all liberal political prostitutes.

However I admire the decision of this woman. She definitely had a choice to either leave the man and follow her own ambitions or to put her personal sport career aside and stand by her man. She choose the man and for that she have my deepest respect.

[PeacefulCaribbeanDutch]

A German Olympic rower has a Neo-Nazi boyfriend, and now that people have called her out on it, she’s decided to leave London early.

Nadja Drygalla is leaving on her own terms — though she’s already done competing — “so as not to be a burden for the team.”

Media reports said her boyfriend was a leading member of the “Rostock National Socialists” and had fought a state election for the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD).

Germany’s intelligence agency describes the party as racist, anti-Semitic and inspired by the Nazis. Its local election campaigns blame immigrants for crime and unemployment and its supporters are mostly unemployed young men with little education in depressed areas of the east.
Um, yeah. Doesn’t sound like something you want to associate yourself with.

Drygalla had a “90-minute conversation with German officials” before coming to her decision.

The German rowing federation said in a statement that it welcomed Drygalla’s decision.

“We will have another conversation with Nadja Drygalla in August after the Olympic Games. After that we will decide together with her how to proceed,” said Siegfried Kaidel, the head of the federation.
Germany is obviously in the habit of forcefully disconnecting any remaining ties, however faint, to Nazism. Asking Drygalla to leave was a no-brainer.

The IOC spoke out, too, with a brief (kind of insensitive!) statement.

There is no issue for us regarding the rower. I have seen the report. But as far as the Games are concerned, she has not done anything wrong.

[RagnarLodbrok666]

Not fair.

[Contra Mundum]

Threads merged.

[Balmung]

See, this is why noone likes liberals.

[Sikeliot]

She is not responsible for her boyfriend. How could anyone care who she is dating or why?

Personally I would have made the opposite choice as she did and not choose love over career but I applaud her for making a choice not many would.

[Dalton Fury]

4 years of training literally wasted. Welcome to Eric Blair's 1984

[MST3K]

I'm sure if the American, black gymnast gabrielle douglas' father or brother were in the black panthers advocating violence against whites, nobody would care; but if that was flipped..