His purple hair shone in the light of the palace – but when Peter Wright stepped onto the big stage, a Christmas song played instead of the usual “Don’t stop the Party”. Wright’s regular musical warning probably wouldn’t have prevented his rather unknown opponent from crashing the Scottish pre-Christmas party this Tuesday evening. The next … Read more
AWhen Svetislav Pesic was the coach of the Bayern basketball team, he enjoyed receiving guests in his office, in a side building of the Rudi Sedlmayer Hall. Once, at the end of 2012, an interview was also about the holidays. “We even celebrate Christmas twice, my wife is Catholic and I am Orthodox,” he said, … Read more
The German beach volleyball national coach Christoph Dieckmann, 49, will end his job next year. The DVV announced that he would be leaving the German Volleyball Association in March 2026 for “personal reasons”. Background: The 2006 European champion lives with his family in Greece. “In order to carry out the task as head national coach … Read more
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