The German ski jumping national coach Stefan Horngacher is removing five-time world champion Karl Geiger from the World Cup squad a good two weeks before the Four Hills Tournament. The 32-year-old will be replaced by Luca Roth, as the German Ski Association (DSV) announced with a view to the competitions at the home game in … Read more
Dhe handball jack-of-all-trades Bob Hanning was once vice president of the German Handball Association. Even back then he was reluctant to mince his words. Hanning called the women’s national team’s performances “a mess” when he announced before the home World Cup in December 2017: “This is the last chance for German women’s handball – if … Read more
MWith springy steps and a lot of time, Lennart Karl walked towards the sideline, and you briefly wondered what grand gesture he would come up with this time: Rowing his arms to encourage the fans in the stadium to chant? After all, they had already stood up to say goodbye to the 17-year-old with a … Read more
DEintracht Frankfurt showed symptoms of improvement in Barcelona on Tuesday evening – but suffered their fourth defeat in the sixth Champions League game of the current season. Three days after the 6-0 debacle in Leipzig, Eintracht took the lead at the Camp Nou through Ansgar Knauff, but gave the victory back after an actually appealing … Read more
Germany’s handball players have fulfilled their semi-final dream with the next defensive gala and are aiming for a medal at the World Cup. National coach Markus Gaugisch’s team easily defeated Pan American champions Brazil in the quarter-finals in Dortmund with 30:23 (17:11) and reached the semi-finals of a major tournament for the first time in … Read more
Bastian Schweinsteiger still has a small lead. It shines slightly upwards from his beer barrel-shaped metal grill, while Felix Neureuther, two meters away from him, is still holding his hand in his grill so that one of the pieces of wood can finally start burning. Schweinsteiger and Neureuther, former soccer world champion and ski world … Read more
When Franz Wagner left the scene on Sunday, things still looked really bad. Supported by his brother Moritz, he hobbled off the floor of Madison Square Garden in New York, his left foot bent so as not to put any weight on him. The audience gave consoling applause for the German basketball national player as … Read more
SOf course, this Formula 1 finale could have ended completely differently. Instead of heading towards Lando Norris’ tears of joy like on a slow train, one or two events could have taken place on the racetrack and thus created an alternative reality. Especially on lap 22, when a horror scene appeared in front of the … Read more
WThe impact that a statement from Mohamed Salah can have was already evident in April 2024. At that time, after a draw at West Ham United, in which he was only substituted late, the Liverpool FC star whispered a telling sentence to reporters: “If I speak, there will be a fire.” Salah didn’t say anything … Read more
Die New York Times saw a “carnival of foreign shame” and in fact football may have reached a low point when the 2026 World Cup draw takes place in the USA, Canada and Mexico. Fifa President Gianni Infantino behaved so humbly towards Donald Trump, so absurd did the handing over of a peace prize newly … Read more