Due to corona from the field – sport
The corona pandemic continues to provide unusual stories in professional sports. Two Nuremberg Ice Tigers players had to be isolated from the rest of the team during the home game against the Bietigheim Steelers on Wednesday evening because their positive PCR test results became known in the middle of the German Ice Hockey League (DEL) […]
Tennis – Zverev opens Davis Cup – Sport
Olympic champion Alexander Zverev opens the Davis Cup game between Brazil and Germany on Friday. The German number one meets the Brazilian Thiago Wild in the opening singles from 8 p.m. German time. After that, Jan-Lennard Struff and Brazilian number one Thiago Monteiro face each other. Zverev only decided at short notice to be in […]
Daniel Heuer Fernandes at HSV: The Manuel Neuer from Hamburg – Sport
The national coach Hansi Flick certainly did not expect that. Manuel Neuer had a tweaked adductors, his substitute Marc-André ter Stegen was given some rest after his match against Romania, and the situation in the DFB team on that September day was unusual: the goalkeeping nation Germany suddenly had a massive goalkeeping problem. So what […]
Baseball – Late Season Start – Sports
Major League Baseball’s season will not start on the scheduled March 31 date after collective bargaining collapsed. That said MLB boss Rob Manfred on Tuesday (local time) in Florida, where the representatives of the best baseball league in the world and the players have been negotiating for hours over the past few days. At least […]
Biathlon – Erik Lesser announces retirement – Sport
Biathlon, Lesser: Former world champion Erik Lesser ends his biathlon career at the end of the season. “That’s it for me. I’m packing my things here now, doing my three World Cups and then: Adios Amigos! Then it’s enough for me and that fits quite well,” said the 33-year-old on Thursday in his podcast “Das […]
Russia and Belarus now excluded from the Paralympics after all – sport
The Beijing Paralympic Games are now taking place without athletes from Russia and Belarus. The International Paralympic Committee backed up Thursday less than 24 hours after its controversial decision to allow athletes to fly the neutral flag. Several teams and athletes had previously threatened to boycott the games. “We at the IPC firmly believe that […]
Judo – World Judo Federation: No starting ban for Russian athletes – Sport
Kazan (dpa) – The world judo association IJF will not exclude any Russian athletes despite the Ukraine war. The global decision to sanction all Russian athletes is not considered justified, the IJF said. Expulsion would continue the escalation of violence. Russian athletes can therefore compete under the flag and anthem of the world association. Athletes […]
DFB-Pokal: Nkunku is way too fast for Hannover – Sport
Christopher Nkunku has earned a reputation for being too fast for most Bundesliga defenders. If the Leipzig starts, best of all throws in a little trickery, it gets tricky for most defenders. It’s an experimental arrangement of the meaner kind when Nkunku meets a couple of second division defenders in the DFB Cup, like on […]
DFB Cup: HSV wins on penalties
Berlin is getting closer and closer for HSV after the treble on penalties: Hamburger SV is in the semi-finals of the DFB Cup after a wild race to catch up and can dream more than ever of their first major title in 35 years. Thanks to goalkeeper Daniel Heuer Fernandes, coach Tim Walter’s team won […]
Basketball – Good prospects for great basketball summer – sport
Heidelberg (AP) – Robin Benzing knew who he had to thank. “Nice that you were there,” said the captain of the German national basketball team to his teammate Maodo Lo. Despite the tight schedule, the point guard from German champions Alba Berlin joined the German team for the World Cup qualifier against Israel on Monday […]