Big air at the Olympics: Anna Gasser wins gold
Nfter two falls, German snowboarder Annika Morgan missed her goal of top 8 in the big air at the Beijing Olympics. The 20-year-old was only the second of three jumps in the final on Tuesday and had to settle for tenth place with 88.00 points. Like four years ago, the Austrian Anna Gasser became the […]
Hockey icon Werner Delmes is dead: Ahead of his time
AThe great reverence can also be seen in the last greeting of the twelve remaining hockey gold medal winners from 1972: “It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to our friend and coach of the German national hockey team, to whom we owe our Olympic victory in Munich in 1972.” Werner Delmes was […]
The Dixie of the East (nd-aktuell.de)
No other East German soccer player was as good as he was: Hans-Jürgen Dörner in a UEFA Cup game in Stuttgart in 1980 Photo: imago/Sportfoto Rudel Oh, always these crooked parables! They all wrote it like that one last time, and this time it is as ignorant, as arrogant and wrong as anything: No, Hans-Jürgen […]