Real Madrid is expected to sue Eufemiano Fuentes after the doctor, the centre of the Operation Puerto doping saga, appeared to suggest he previously had links to medical staff at the club.

largely linked with the scandal, with Spain’s Alejandro Valverde, Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich of Germany

German athlete body Athleten Deutschland has published a position paper which calls for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) to outline basic requirements for Tokyo 2020, expectations of International Federations (IFs) around qualification events and minimum requirements for future versions of the Games playbooks.

vaccines.Athleten Deutschland said a general discussion is now required as to whether athletes who represent Germany

pandemic.Athleten Deutschland said a general discussion is now required as to whether athletes who represent Germany

Serbian ice hockey coach Aleksandar Andjelic, who represented Yugoslavia at the 1964 Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck, has died at the age of 80.

his career in 1975 before becoming a coach.The Serbian coached clubs in The Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany

Honduras and Mexico secured the final places in the men's Olympic football tournament at Tokyo 2020 after winning semi-finals at the Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) qualifier in Guadalajara.

tournament final, with the two teams assured of competing at Tokyo 2020.The teams join Japan, France, Germany

Norway's Marcus Kleveland and Austria's Anna Gasser secured the overall Snowboard World Cup slopestyle titles at the final leg of the season in Silvaplana in Switzerland.

the overall men's slopestyle title on 260 points, ahead of Brearley on 116 and Leon Vockensperger of Germany

Slovenia's Nika Križnar has been crowned overall International Ski Federation Women's Ski Jumping World Cup champion after finishing third in a weather-affected final event of the season in Chaikovsky.

recorded a score of 348.5, while Katharina Althaus, Juliane Seyfarth, Luisa Görlich and Anna Rupprecht of Germany

The Netherlands, Germany and Norway protested against human rights abuses in host nation Qatar ahead

The International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) Europe has confirmed club competition is set to return with the Champions Cup from April 30 to May 2.

This tournament is planned to take place in Wetzlar in Germany at the Rittal Arena and will be organised

Action got underway at the International Judo Federation’s Grand Slam in Tbilisi today but German judoka were not involved as their team followed France in withdrawing because of a spate of positive COVID-19 tests in Georgia.

The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) says it is in the final stages of negotiations with Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) over supplying COVID-19 vaccines to athletes from the continent prior to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Zealand were confirmed as being eligible for early vaccinations this week.Other NOCs, including those in Germany

Britain’s world number one Joseph Choong moved smoothly through today’s qualification for Saturday’s (March 27) men’s final at the opening International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) World Cup of the season in Budapest.

world champion and 2019 European champion Jamie Cooke, proceeding in 10th place.Marvin Faly Dogue of Germany

Former champion Sloane Stephens fought back from a set down to overcome French qualifier Océane Dodin and claim her first victory of 2021 at the Miami Open.

fired 16 winners and broke Alcaraz’s serve three times, will take on third seed Alexander Zverev of Germany

It is not a "done deal" that Brisbane will host the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) President John Coates has warned.

a meeting on February 25, despite strong interest from Doha, Budapest and the Rhine-Ruhr region in Germany

Ashley Jackson, regarded as the outstanding British player of his generation, has opted to "step away" from from the country's senior programme ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics for a mixture of personal reasons and injuries.

tournament at Tokyo 2020 and have been drawn in Group B alongside Belgium, The Netherlands, Canada, Germany

The International Ski Federation (FIS) men's Ski Jumping World Cup season will conclude in Planica this week, with a series of contests on the Slovenian resort's flying hill.

Egner Granerud has already secured the overall World Cup title ©Getty ImagesMarkus Eisenbichler of Germany