In the meantime, more and more victims of abuse of power are breaking their silence in professional and popular sports. But there is a need for action to better protect athletes before abuse occurs. Special structures in sport encourage attacks. Apparently minor cases are used by perpetrators to test boundaries before serious abuse actually occurs, … Read more
About a month before the start of the Winter Olympics Milan The Santa Giulia main hall for the ice hockey tournaments caused problems again. During the opening of the hall by an Italian Cup game on Friday evening, a hole opened in the ice. The game then had to be interrupted for around five minutes … Read more
DYou have had a close relationship for years, perhaps a romantic relationship or at least a friendly one, and suddenly the other person stops contacting you. No call back, no message, nothing. Over, over. As if nothing had ever happened. 21st century Anglophiles have the term for this phenomenon Ghosting invented: When someone runs away … Read more
Dhe Four Hills Tournament will soon be over – and the German ski jumpers were once again far from competing for overall victory. Felix Hoffmann and Philipp Raimund were convincing in the top ten, Pius Paschke jumped in the midfield, but the crisis of Karl Geiger and Andreas Wellinger could not be overcome in Oberstdorf, … Read more
Dubai secured a crucial victory on Matchday 18 of the EuroLeague, defeating Olimpia Milano at home in a dramatic end to the match with a score of 99-92. Dwayne Bacon performed well for the squad led by Jurica Golemac, who was still without Dzanan Musa, Aleksa Avramovic and Nate Mason. The American concluded the game … Read more
Karl Geiger rarely beats around the bush, on the contrary. The ski jumper from Oberstdorf is a pleasantly self-critical representative of his craft. And the 32-year-old has often had cause for self-criticism recently. The current highlight: Geiger’s failure to qualify on Sunday at the start of the Four Hills Tournament with an indisputable jump of … Read more
An every corner, Milanese people have been reminded for several weeks of what lies ahead in February. “Milano, arrivano i giochi!” is the title of a poster campaign that is being displayed throughout the city. In large and small formats, when buying panettone as well as when waiting for the metro to arrive, the people … Read more
“Is that correct?” These are the words a referee reacts to when a 14-year-old boy tells him about a racist insult. “I found it very inappropriate and a bit frightening to assume that I had invented something like that with the first question,” says the young player. His description comes from a research project at … Read more
Ten years for one goal The ice dancers have five German championship titles Jennifer Janse van Rensburg and Benjamin Steffan collected, which is a nice omen for the Olympics, as they think: “Each title represents one of the five rings.” They have worked for ten years towards their big goal of taking part in the … Read more
The American alpine skier Lindsey Vonn celebrated her 83rd World Cup victory at the first downhill run of the Alpine Ski World Cup in St. Moritz. The ski star won the race in Switzerland with a large lead over the Austrians Magdalena Egger (+0.98 seconds) and Mirjam Puchner (+1.16). It is the 41-year-old’s first World … Read more