Ski racer Linus Straßer continues to search for his best form in the Olympic winter. In the fourth slalom of the season in Alta Badia, the World Cup third placed 17th and was 1.33 seconds behind winner Atle Lie McGrath from Norway. He was 0.94 seconds short of a place on the podium, which also … Read more
London in December: As every year, the focus is on Alexandra Palace in the north of the city. Every day, with the exception of a short break in play around Christmas, up to 15,000 darts fans will put on a spectacle – costumes and lots of alcohol included. Let’s start with that one PDC Darts … Read more
Vincent Kompany is really good at German. His passive vocabulary enables him to understand every question that is asked of him, but his active vocabulary has also now reached a considerable level. “He’s a, how do you put it? They used to say ‘fighting pig’,” Kompany said about his goalkeeper Jonas Urbig after the 4-0 … Read more
EIt sounded spectacular what the German basketball players had to do to make it to the Sportsman of the Year election in Baden-Baden in time. Or rather what the organizers had put in place. FC Bayern Munich, which also employs European champions Andreas Obst, Oscar da Silva, Justus Hollatz, Leon scratch, Niels Giffey and Johannes … Read more
The favorites prevailed in the election for Germany’s Sportsman of the Year on Sunday evening. In the men’s category, athlete Leo Neugebauer won, the 25-year-old decathlon world champion prevailed in the journalist voting ahead of swimmer Florian Wellbrock and professional cyclist Florian Lipowitz. Neugebauer received 2,343 points in the election and was honored at the … Read more
Victory at the end of the year, a record for Kylian Mbappé – but still no rest at Real Madrid for the holidays: The troubled Spanish football record champions won 2-0 (1-0) in the league against ninth-placed Sevilla FC on Saturday evening and thus won all three competitive games in the week before Christmas. However, … Read more
SEver since Christian Ilzer passed through the first valleys at TSG Hoffenheim and enjoys unlimited trust as a coach, things have been going well. No Bundesliga team has clocked up as many kilometers as the 48-year-old Austrian’s selection; there have been over 1,700 so far this season. And something else has been going on for … Read more
EIt had already become quite contemplative in the Grünwald stadium. Last week there was an Advent singing here with a record participation of around 2,000 visitors, many blue 1860 Santa hats could be seen and much more peaceful things were heard than usual. On Saturday, the fans set off a contemplative fireworks display outside the … Read more
AOn Saturday, RB boss Oliver Mintzlaff wanted to inspect the progress that the Bundesliga club from Leipzig has made over the past six months. The first impression he took away was a 6-0 loss at FC Bayern on matchday 1. It wasn’t even close to being that bad on Saturday evening, but what Mintzlaff saw … Read more
Shortly before Christmas there is a serious change among the FC Bayern basketball players. As the club announced on Saturday, the previous head coach Gordon Herbert is leaving the German champions with immediate effect. After a “trusting exchange,” the 66-year-old Canadian and the Munich club agreed to terminate the collaboration early. Both sides emphasized that … Read more