Analysis: Alarm bells ringing for German athletics at 2023 Worlds

by Oliver Trust

BERLIN, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- The decline in German track and field is stark. The 70-member team didn't win a single medal at the 2023 Budapest World Athletics Championships.

For the first time since the championship's inception in 1983, Germany went home empty-handed.

From 2009 to 2022, Germany's medal haul decreased from nine to just two. Last year in Eugene, the nation secured a si