I've been trying to figure this out in my head, but I don't know anybody who does or is interested in track and field at all. Philosophical question: Can a group of zero people be part of a class?
Except for long distance running of course, which seems to be a PMC thing more than anything. It is around here anyway.
There are multiple crises and policy failures, leading to the usual right-wing "solutions" getting promoted by all sorts of opportunists. Couple this with the fact that the there is no opposition to the left of the current centrist government, so there is no institutional support for protests or media campaigns and so on.
The peace movement used to be linked to the Greens (and that whole complex of Green-aligned media and institutions), which have gradually moved part of it into the imperialist camp, while the rest is marginalized. The SPD has done the same for the worker's movement since forever. The Greens have also played the environmentalists, though they at least are still protesting and increasingly denouncing them. The regime and media have recently become increasingly xenophobic and hostile to immigrants. I assume they think they can stop the rise of the far-right AfD this way. Again, the Green leadership have kneecapped the movement by switching sides and endorsing "compromise" (= capitulation) with the fascists. The base seems pretty unhappy, but this has happened before and I don't expect anything to come of it.
Meanwhile, The Left party has split into a nationalist, anti-"woke" and kinda anti-imperialist liberal socdem party, and a kinda pro-imperialist "we want to govern" liberal socdem party, which surely would repeat the Green party trajectory if it had any traction. There might be some invisible socialists hiding among these people, maybe. The media and schools have done an amazing job of teaching enlightened centrism and moralism, so there's not a lot them anyway.
Meanwhile, the issue with the Ukraine war etc. has been taken up by the far right, making the radlibs afraid of saying anything, lest they be seen agreeing with them. The media encourages this framing in an attempt to stifle left-wing opposition. Same for mainstream media criticism: They've successfully rallied those people to defend the fucking genocidal propaganda machine from far-right "Lügenpresse" allegations.
The AfD also takes public anger over mounting problems with wages, inflation, infrastructure etc. and blaming it on immigrants, environmentalists, some big "globalist" conspiracy and so on. The Greens get a lot the anger, though for the wrong reasons. It's actually quite the symbiotic relationship, that one: the Greens can pretend to defend the environment and immigrants from the far right, while doing absolutely the opposite, and the AfD can rile up the bigots with a nice willing scapegoat.