Basketball Australia have named their squad for the 2018 International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) World Championships, where the side will look to win their third gold medal in succession.

The tournament is due to be held in Hamburg in Germany from August 14 to 27.Eleven of the the Rollers

 Before leaving for Germany the players will complete their National Wheelchair Basketball League

Oddly, I was looking at Sir Stanley Matthews’ autobiography early yesterday - The Way It Was, a fine book stuffed with precious detail that I have read twice and plan to enjoy again (A doctor writes…).

happened, England won 3-0 on that occasion – which was back in the days when England didn’t lose to Germany

©Getty ImagesDown the years, recent years that is, England have been Munzenberged by Germany at what

At the 2002 World Cup, England went out in the quarter-finals and Germany reached the final.The telling

Germany were like England – only better.

Germany, down the years, have been so good they have frustrated and, purely through their own strength

Russian cyclist Ekaterina Gnidenko has been allowed to return to competition by the International Cycling Union (UCI) as she continues to appeal a positive drugs retest from the 2012 Olympic Games in London to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

in Keirin in the Cottbuser SprintCup 2018 in Cottbus, Germany."

European Softball Federation European Championships with another two emphatic wins over Lithuania and Germany

 They beat Lithuania in their first match today 19-0.First on was Germany versus Italy, also in

final match on Wednesday in Group B.That finished 10-0, with hosts the Czech Republic then beating Germany

Reigning champions Germany crashed out of the FIFA World Cup today as they lost 2-0 to South Korea to

 Germany were eliminated from the 1938 World Cup in the first round after a 4-2 replay loss to Switzerland

Getty ImagesMexico were at one stage in danger of elimination despite winning their first two game, if Germany

 Brazil avoided avoided a repeat of the Germany shock with a 2-0 win over Serbia at Moscow's Otkritie

Reigning Paralympic cross-country sprint champion Andy Soule of the United States has announced his retirement from the sport at the age of 38.

bronze medals came at the 2015 edition of the event in Cable, with the other coming in Finsterau in Germany

German officials Georg Behlau and Ulrich Voigt have been fined by FIFA for "unsportsmanlike behaviour" after their overzealous celebrations following the dramatic 2-1 win over Sweden at the FIFA World Cup sparked a touchline row.

found guilty of provoking the Sweden bench after Toni Kroos curled in a stoppage-time winner to give Germany

Italian Ivo Ferriani has been re-elected President of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) after he earned a comfortable election victory over Swiss challenger Fritz Burkard in Rome.

four.American Darrin Steele was re-elected vice-president for sport, while incumbent Andreas Trautvetter of Germany

A superb late volley from defender Marcos Rojo rescued Argentina and set up a tantalising FIFA World Cup last-16 tie with France.

Otkritie Arena and Switzerland face Costa Rica at the Nizhny Novgorod Stadium.In Group F, South Korea and Germany

Hosts and reigning champions the Czech Republic beat Italy in their first game on day two of the European Softball Championships in Havlíčkův Brod, on a day that also saw three matches postponed for rain.

lost to the Czechs yesterday.Four-and-a-half hours later they then played their second match against Germany

, winning 14-2.Lithuania, meanwhile, played Germany in their second match.That game finished 20-

Former rower and International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes' Commission member Roland Baar has died in a car crash aged 53, it has been announced today.

Baar won five world titles in the eights event for West Germany and then Germany between 1989 and 1995

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has revealed the game schedule for this year's Under-15 Baseball World Cup, which is being held in Panama from August 10 to 19. 

 It will begin with Brazil against Germany in Group A and Australia against Japan in Group

on August 10.Group A, which features hosts Panama, the United States, Chinese Taipei, Brazil, Germany

Düsseldorf and Minsk have been awarded the next two editions of the European Fencing Championships in 2019 and 2020.

It will mark the third time that Germany has hosted the continental-wide event after Koblenz in 2001

Denmark, the European Softball Championship runners-up from 2016, have thrashed Sweden 30-0 on Day one of the 2018 event in Havlíčkův Brod in the Czech Republic. 

in which Italy triumphed 11-1.Denmark's thrashing of Sweden then followed, before Great Britain beat Germany

Double world champion Yassine Gharbi made it four wins from four on the final day of the World Para Athletics Grand Prix in Tunis today. 

today with a throw of 34.19m.The 2018 World Para Athletics Grand Prix series now heads to Berlin in Germany