The first 2G day in indoor sports – better safe than sorry

New Corona state regulation

Many calls include questions about the country’s new Corona Control Ordinance. This applies from November 22 to December 15, 2021. Anyone who does sport indoors – i.e. halls, fitness studios, climbing parks or other similar facilities – falls under the 2G rule, so must be vaccinated or recovered. The same goes for volunteer trainers. There are, however, exceptions.

Children are not subject to the new regulations until they start school, nor are minors who have been tested or who can prove with a school certificate that they are tested twice a week. Exceptions also apply to people who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons. This must be proven by a medical certificate. In addition, in these cases a negative corona test is necessary in order to be able to do sports in closed rooms.

Clubs do more than required

The Lübeck gymnastics association switched to 2G on November 15th. Did the LT get it wrong in the date? No, it’s all about everyone’s health, says branch manager Nicole Merkt. “Most of our members understand the measures. Older athletes are even grateful because they can go to sports so safely. “

On the first floor, Yannick Lund and Marcel Lahn from the LT handball team lift weights. “Our entire team is vaccinated. We all made a conscious decision to do this in June, ”says Luhn. At LT, the trainers check the 2G regulation before each exercise unit or ask young people to provide evidence of a test. The trainers are checked for 2G by the department heads.

The LBV Phönix does it in a very similar way. The first chairman Steffen Kohl also records the vaccination and recovery records of the trainers and athletes in a list. VfL Lübeck-Schwartau also records the school test certificates for its youth teams. “In the meantime, however, over 50 percent of my C-youth have been vaccinated,” says the person in charge, Gerrit Claasen. Tolga Tanriverdi from the Lübeck boxing club has a comprehensive overview of who falls under 2G with him, says: “Now with the new regulation I have everyone else show me the vaccination status.” Further measures are often taken on their own initiative.

Understanding of measures

On the counter of the “Fit in Form” in Lübeck there are several spray bottles in front of the studio manager Gesa Jörgensen. The content: disinfectant. Each member who comes to train receives a bottle, disinfects the exercise equipment and returns the container at the end – then the bottle is disinfected with disinfectant.

In “Fit in Form” as well as in “Clever Fit Lübeck Süd”, the members’ vaccination and convalescence certificates are stored in their customer profile after approval. In the case of new members, 2G is checked on the basis of the evidence in connection with the identity card. On the first day of the prescription, “very little is going on,” says studio manager Gunnar Funck. “But we can’t say whether it’s because of 2G or the Christmas market,” he smiles.

A few steps further, Maximilian Huzel trims on the treadmill, his gaze focused ahead. He thinks “the new regulation is good. Something has to be done about the increasing numbers ”. The training duo Mathias Hartwig and Viktor Tokarev agree: “The numbers keep increasing, that must have consequences.” Anne Jaacks, well trained and loaded with weights, feels especially “safe when doing sports”. A lot of sense of responsibility can be felt in the athletes – also in the Urban Apes, where Kai Schmidt’s back muscles stand out against his shirt as he swings from one slope to the other. He performs the sweaty action – although not an obligation – with a mask. Better safe than sorry.

By Andreas Breitenberger