Hosts and defending champions Portugal ran riot in their opening match at the Euro Beach Soccer League Superfinal as they thrashed France 7-0.

hat-trick.The other match on the opening day of the event was a significantly closer affair as Ukraine beat Germany

This year's Bandy World Championship in Russia has been thrown into doubt after three countries withdrew from the tournament due to travel restrictions imposed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

official state news agency TASS that Sweden – runners-up at the last two World Championships – and Germany

Austria and Germany held a joint training camp as preparations for the resumption of the International

affected required to go into quarantine.The training camp also included a friendly tournament, which Germany

All went well here, Austria's training camp together with Germany has been an awesome opportunity for

The friendly competition between Austria and Germany has been well organised and Austrian television

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has named the 10 members of its new Athletes Commission, which features men and women from all five continental federations.

century, represents Asia alongside Hiromi Miyake of Japan.From Europe the members are Jurgen Spiess of Germany

As a result, as we say in Germany, there will always blow a ‘fresh wind’ through the IWF."

Athletes from 10 of the 14 countries qualified for wheelchair basketball competition at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games have called for the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) to allow all formerly eligible athletes to compete.

claiming it violates the athlete's rights.The men’s and women’s teams from Australia, Canada, Britain, Germany

The Euro Beach Soccer League Superfinal is poised to begin in Nazaré in Portugal tomorrow.

pandemic led to it being scaled down.The hosts open their campaign against France, while Ukraine face Germany

Düsseldorf in Germany and Durban in South Africa are poised to battle it out online to host the 2023

Four International Skating Union (ISU) Speed Skating World Cup events and two Short Track World Cup competitions have been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. 

stage a leg in February, before Dutch city Heerenveen is scheduled to host finals in March.Dresden in Germany

Top seed Novak Djokovic breezed past Damir Džumhur to reach the second round of the US Open, while former women's champion Naomi Osaka is also into round two.

 Riske defeated Tatjana Maria of Germany in 62 minutes, winning 6-3, 6-2, while Brady bettered Russian

Women's top seed Karolína Plíšková recorded a straight-sets win on the first day of the US Open, as the second Grand Slam tennis tournament of the year got underway in New York.

against 16-year-old American Cori Gauff 6-3, 5-7, 6-4.On the men's side, fifth seed Alexander Zverev from Germany

This summer marked a significant landmark in Olympic history, although one that has gone largely unnoticed. It was the 50th anniversary marking the announcement that a dachshund would be the official mascot of the 1972 Olympics in Munich, the first time that the Games would have such a symbol.

antlers, a tail and fang said to inhabit the Alpine forests of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany

Daume, aware of the connotations that were still strong in many people’s memories of the last time Germany

XI to design the look and feel of the first Olympic Games in Germany for 36 years.He had co-founded the

a mascot could be for major events ©Getty ImagesIn the wake of England’s historic 4-2 win over West Germany

in the final, applications flew in for licences - more than 120 - from France, Germany, Italy, Denmark

The Belgian team are aiming to go one better at the second edition of the European Sailing Federation (EUROSAF) Mixed Offshore European Championship, which begins in Genoa tomorrow.

race.This year's race is scheduled to take place from tomorrow to September 5, with teams from France, Germany

A statue of England World Cup legends Sir Bobby Moore, Sir Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters is set to be unveiled outside the London Stadium, which was the main venue for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

the very pinnacle of the game in 1966, when they led England to World Cup final glory against West Germany

Swiss ski cross athlete Romain Détraz will miss the 2020-2021 season after rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament in a training fall.

Arosa in Switzerland for his sole World Cup win in late 2016, and also recorded podium finishes in Germany

Eleonora Gasparrini secured junior road race titles at the Road European Championships in Plouay, as Germany