They stress the importance of being informed as fast as possible of the latest developments and results. All these requests I understand and sympathise with, as my girlfriend for example is active in basketball - which means that we will certainly keep an eye out for news from the Olympic basketball tournament. I myself am responsible for the general area of swimming at our university, which imcludes competition, and thus the swimming events will find my special interest. DE-News on its own however will not be able to cover the Olympics in all their multitude of events. At the moment, the German news are compiled by five people, with another dozen or so doing the translations.
Every issue is produced by only one transcriber and one translator.
I am responsible for three of four issues every week. Please send results only, no lengthy reports. Which means that we would have a sort of sports supplement to the usual news for the duration of the Olympic Games. A total of more than 10,000 readers a day around the world are reached by the German and English editions of our news through the mailing lists. There simply have to be a few people among them who are currently in a far more comfortable time zone than us here in Europe, and who have got the drive to contribute to our GermNews sports desk.