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Sweden and Scotland aim to defend titles at European Curling Championships

  • Curling

Sweden and Scotland will aim to defend their European Curling Championships titles when competition begins tomorrow in Tallinn.

of funding, asserting that tournament wins would prove crucial to keeping the team together.Finland, Germany

A-Division.Poland are making their debut in the top division, while the teams representing Finland, Germany

, but will hope to improve on the silver medal they won last year.Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany


Norway’s Bullen beats China’s senior world champion to lift UWW under-23 title

  • Wrestling

Grace Bullen, Norway’s Summer Youth Olympic Games champion and 2017 world junior bronze medallist, produced a superb performance to win women’s freestyle gold at the United World Wrestling under-23 World Championships in Bucharest as she defeated a senior world champion.

to two-time age-group world bronze medallist Stefania Priceputu of Romania, who beat Lisa Ersel of Germany


Sjöström ends Hosszú's 28-win streak at 100m individual medley at season's final Swimming World Cup

  • Swimming

The battle at the top of the women’s overall standings in the Swimming World Cup intensified on the first day of the seventh and final event of the series in Singapore as points leader Sarah Sjöström inflicted the first 100 metres individual medley defeat on rival Katinka Hosszú. since 2014.

In other women's events, Reva Foos  of Germany was the fastest in the 400m freestyle in 4:07.07,


Stoch seeking third FIS Ski Jumping title as World Cup starts in Wisla

  • Ski Jumping

Wisla, in Poland, will be the venue this weekend as a 2018-2019 Ski Jumping World Cup season gets underway with home athlete and defending champion Kamil Stoch, the Pyeongchang 2018 large hill champion, seeking to become become only the fourth competitor to win the overall title three or more times.

overall World Cup title.Malysz successfully defended it twice, in 2001-2002 and 2002-2003.Freitag, of Germany

last season when he reached the podium eight times.Olympic normal hill champion Andreas Wellinger of Germany

potential.Other strong contenders include Russia’s Evgeniy Klimov, Daniel Huber of Austria, Karl Geiger of Germany


Record amount of countries represented in new men's softball world rankings

  • Baseball and Softball

A record 48 countries and territories are now featured in the new men's softball world rankings, with 14 nations making their historic debuts, it was revealed today.

Confederation (WBSC) men's softball world rankings include Belgium, Chinese Taipei, Croatia, Cuba, Ecuador, Germany



Gold Coast 2018 venue ready to host penultimate FINA Diving Grand Prix

  • Diving

The Gold Coast Aquatic Centre in Australia, host of the diving events at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, is set to hold the sixth leg of the International Swimming Federation (FINA) Diving Grand Prix.

while the men will be required to perform six.The FINA Diving Grand Prix circuit began in Rostock in Germany



Smash-hit European 10,000 metres Cup to stay in London until 2020

  • Athletics

The European 10,000 metres Cup, hugely successful in its London staging this year, will remain in the British capital until 2020.

Paula Radcliffe and Mo Farah from Great Britain, Fernanda Ribeiro from Portugal and Dieter Baumann from Germany




Benegas and Dowell earn BMX freestyle gold as US finish UCI Urban Cycling World Championships on a high

  • Cycling

Riders from the United States secured the last two golds as the 2018 International Cycling Union (UCI) Urban Cycling World Championships concluded in Chengdu, China, with Perris Benegas winning the women's elite BMX freestyle crown and 18-year-old Justin Dowell earning the men's title.

France finished on top of the medal table with eight in all, in front Germany on six and Spain on five.A




The athletes who sacrificed everything during the First World War

  • The Big Read

Today marks 100 years since "the war to end all wars" came to an end. The guns fell silent at the 11th hour of the 11th day in the 11th month in 1918.

back.His presence was a reminder that among the sportsmen who died in the First World War, many came from Germany

Games, peace will reign again and peoples will be united in sporting competition," he said.Others in Germany

Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire were considered the defeated powers and as such they were excluded

It seemed to me that sport with Germany as a comrade had become impossible, and that the Games without

Germany and her allies were excluded but Cook's assessment was that the decision to award them to Belgium