Germany’s Julia Taubitz and Austria’s Madeleine Egle will compete for the overall women’s title as the Luge World Cup season concludes in St Moritz.

a did not finish.The two-day event in Switzerland will also feature a team relay competition, with Germany

Russia’s Andrey Rublev has claimed he was allowed into Australia despite testing positive for COVID-19, as several players at the Australian Open have questioned a perceived lack of testing at the Grand Slam event.

leave Australia, with the 23-year-old now having been quarantined.Men’s third seed Alexander Zverev of Germany

The main round of the men’s European Handball Federation European Championship got underway today across Hungary and Slovakia, with all the big-hitters in action.

2022In Group II, played in Bratislava, holders Spain started the main round with a win as they beat Germany

The three-day International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation's Junior World Championships are set to begin tomorrow in Innsbruck, with medals available in 12 events.

The Championships were moved from Königssee following damage caused by the floods in Germany last year.Competition

Australia’s team will wear their traditional colours of green and gold at the Opening Ceremony of Beijing 2022, but the decision to introduce a camouflage design has been hailed by freestyle skier Brodie Summers, set to compete at his third Winter Olympics in the moguls.

in the lining.Australia first competed at the 1936 Winter Olympic Games in Garmisch Partenkirchen in Germany

Málaga is set to stage the first World Rugby Sevens Series event held in Spain, with men's and women's competition scheduled from tomorrow until Sunday (January 23).

because of travel restrictions.Olympic silver medallists New Zealand and Samoa have been replaced by Germany

Hans-Jürgen Dörner, a member of East Germany’s Olympic medal-winning football team at Montreal 1976, has died at the age of 70, his former club Dynamo Dresden has announced.

The defender, called "Dixie" throughout his career, played 96 times for East Germany and was voted the

only appearance in the FIFA World Cup, in 1974, when they beat the hosts and bitter neighbours West Germany

falling ill on a pre-tournament tour to South America.Hans-Jürgen Dörner scored four goals as East Germany

medal at Montreal 1976, beating Poland 3-1 in the final ©DFBDörner only scored seven goals for East Germany

during his international career but four of them came in the 1976 Olympics.East Germany drew their first

Antholz-Anterselva in Italy is set to host the final Biathlon World Cup before the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.

form this season, winning the men's 12.5 kilometres pursuit at the last World Cup round in Ruhpolding, Germany

Ticket applications for this year’s FIFA World Cup in Qatar have gone on sale today, it has been announced.

World Cup in Russia, where category three seats where $105 (£77/€92).It is, in fact, the cheapest since Germany

Germany's four-time Olympic luge gold medallist Natalie Geisenberger has decided to compete at next month’s Winter Olympics in Beijing after considering boycotting the Games due to concerns over COVID-19 conditions in place in China.

pairing Sascha Benecken and Toni Eggert and Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt are also set to represent Germany

Winter Olympics.Three-time Olympic luge gold medallist Loch has announced he would be in favour of Germany

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been branded "irresponsible" for requiring participants to use an application devised to monitor the health of attendees at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing "with such glaring security vulnerabilities".

report comes amid espionage concerns from National Olympic Committees (NOC).NOCs in the United States, Germany

The Netherlands are through to the main round at the European Men's Handball Championship for the first time at the expense of co-hosts Hungary following a pair of single-point wins in Group B.

#watchgamesseemore pic.twitter.com/dXyYe3ur7W— EHF EURO (@EHFEURO) January 18, 2022In Bratislava, Germany

Germany's opening fixture of European qualifying for the International Swimming Federation (FINA) Men's Water Polo World League has been postponed after a COVID-19 outbreak within the German camp.

FINA, in consultation with the Germany and France, as well as the FINA COVID-19 Task Force, has taken

decision to postpone the FINA Men's Water Polo World League European Qualification 2022 match between Germany

Fiji, New Zealand and Samoa have been forced to withdraw their teams from upcoming World Rugby Sevens Series events in Spain due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

of travel restrictions.New Zealand's men have been replaced in the line-up for the Malaga event by Germany

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Mikael Ymer of Sweden 6-2, 6-4, 6-3 ©Getty ImagesFormer Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber of Germany