Sport is always politics
Sport is theatre. Depending on the discipline, the performers on stage are in the limelight either week after week or ...
Tag: Olympic games
Hunter and sports shooter: Doreen Vennekamp is the master of the high seat
Ene of her favorite places is under a fortress from the Staufer period. Doreen Vennekamp raves about the landscape around ...
World Cup hope in German gymnastics: fall and rise of Lukas Dauser
"Unfortunately that's not the case with us: I can't defeat my opponent, we're not in a boxing match. I can't ...
Monarch Swimmer: The Queen to the Rescue
IHer Majesty had more than a flair for sports. She sent her husband to the opening of the 1956 Olympic ...
Attack on Olympia: Steinmeier asks the survivors for forgiveness
BPresident Frank-Walter Steinmeier has asked forgiveness from the families of the victims of the attack on the Israeli Olympic team ...
GDR tourists at Munich 72: Visiting “imperialist countries”
50 years ago, 2,000 GDR citizens traveled to Munich to watch the Olympic Games. The Stasi was always on their ...
German successes at the European Championships: track and field athletes in the gold frame
If the European athletes keep to themselves, as in Munich, the fun is greater and the suspicion of doping less ...
New athletics world record: the old doping spook
Faster than any other runner so far over 400 meters hurdles: Sydney Mclaughlin Image: dpa Sydney McLaughlin, world champion over ...
The German electric helicopter wants to fly tourists over Singapore
Volocopter wants to fly tourists over Singapore in the year after next. To this end, the Southeast Asian city-state is ...