and joining me now is doug marsh hi todd who chairs the sports committee of the german bundestag. thanks for joining us what is yours.

and joining me now is doug marsh hi todd who chairs the sports committee of the german bundestag.thanks for joining us what is your reaction to these allegations that have come out here in germany. well good morning i heard about the allegations a couple of weeks ago and i can say for me it's not credible what the people say and i think it's worth. working with it and talking about it because you know sports is a field with a very close relation between the staff and the athletes think of the coaches think of the medical doctors think of the physicians they all have a close contact to a very young people and they can make the young athletes strong self confident. but the misuse of the power can destroy the souls of the young people and that's not acceptable it or not acceptable but i am surprised by the allegations. no not really we have learned the nesa case for instance we heard about the cases in the netherlands we had some cases in other parts of germany no i'm not really surprised but in the end i'm surprised about the handling of i was thought federation's of the so-called s

and joining me now is doug marsh hi todd who chairs the sports committee of the german bundestag. thanks for joining us what is your reaction to these allegations that have come out here in germany. well good morning i heard about the allegations a couple of weeks ago and i can say for me it sounds credible what the people say and i think it's worth. working with it and talking about it because you know sports is a field with a very close relation between the staff and the athletes think of the coaches think of the medical doctors think of the physicians they all have a close contact to a very young people and they can make the young athletes strong self-confident. but to misuse of the power can destroy the souls of the young people and that's not acceptable it or not acceptable but i am surprised by the allegations. no not really we have learned the nesa case for instance we heard about the cases in the netherlands we had some cases in other parts of germany no i'm not really surprised but in the end i'm surprised about the handling of i was thought federation's of the so-called