The General Assembly of the German Olympic Sports Confederation unanimously approved a "strategy for a possible application for the Olympic and Paralympic Games".

With this decision in Baden-Baden, the DOSB was commissioned to prepare a qualified fundamental decision in the coming year as to whether there should be an application and when and with which cities it could be tackled. This includes a dialogue with sport, politics and, above all, society.

The DOSB convention is not to decide until the end of 2023 whether, for which year, with which cities and under what conditions Germany will apply. In the past three decades, six attempts to apply had been unsuccessful, some had failed because of the will of the citizens.

By February 2023, a staff unit with four employees will take over the content and organizational planning. The costs of the one-year preparatory measures of around 960,000 euros are borne by the DOSB. In contrast to other attempts, no more cities should apply themselves as venues. Rather, the DOSB wants to explore which cities could be the most successful applications.

Talks have already been held with representatives from Hamburg, Munich and North Rhine-Westphalia (Rhine-Ruhr Initiative), and a talk has been arranged with Berlin. A central element of an application should be the 100 percent use of existing sports facilities. Candidates would be conceivable for the Winter Games in 2034 or 2038, for the Summer Games in 2036 or 2040.