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Niersbach to appeal against FIFA ban

  • Football
  • 29 Jul 2016 17:47

Committee for failing to report possible misconduct as part of an investigation into the 2006 World Cup in Germany

year, was being investigated along with Franz Beckenbauer as part of a wider probe by FIFA into how Germany

Mike Rowbottom: Economics, politics and doping prompt Wallechinsky to halt production of his Olympic "bible"

  • Inside the Blogs
  • 28 Jul 2016 10:00

As the Rio Olympics loom large on the horizon, there is good news and bad as far as David Wallechinsky, that doyen of Olympic observers, is concerned: he will be in Brazil to cover his 17th Games BUT there will be no fresh and updated edition of his sporting set text, The Complete Book of the Olympics, which has proved an unrivalled companion to the Games for so many thousands of sports followers since it first appeared in 1984.

in the early days of his Olympic books as details of the state-run system which had operated in East Germany

Doping scandals reduce interest in Olympics, survey claims

  • Olympics
  • 27 Jul 2016 19:27

Doping scandals have reduced public interest in the Olympics, according to a new survey.

a lot" or "some" negative effect on the level of attention they will pay the Games.Respondents from Germany

Kenya, Russia, Peru and India.National pride appeared least affected by Olympic success in Brazil, Germany

Second seed Wawrinka reaches third round of Rogers Cup

  • Tennis
  • 26 Jul 2016 21:30

Two-time Grand Slam winner Stanislas Wawrinka booked his place in the third round of the Rogers Cup after claiming a hard-fought victory over Mikhail Youzhny at the Aviva Centre at York University in Toronto.

Chinese Taipei’s Yen-Hsun Lu, the world number 70, who beat promising young talent Alexander Zverev of Germany

Two locations short-listed for Beijing 2022 sliding track

  • Beijing 2022
  • 27 Jul 2016 12:44

Two locations have been shortlisted for the sliding track which will be built for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.

A delegation from Beijing travelled to the Königssee track in Germany in June as part of their planning

FIFA Council member Niersbach banned for one year by Ethics Committee

  • Football
  • 25 Jul 2016 14:40

Committee for failing to report possible misconduct as part of an investigation into the 2006 World Cup in Germany

year, was being investigated along with Franz Beckenbauer as part of a wider probe by FIFA into how Germany

year concerning the bid process which led to the European nation being awarded the event in July 2000.Germany

World Cup ©Getty ImagesIt followed a series of corruption allegations against Beckenbauer, the former Germany

Eighty years since the Berlin Olympics that the world will never forget

  • The Big Read
  • 24 Jul 2016 10:32

Even 80 years on, the Berlin Games of 1936 remain the most controversial and most talked about in the history of the modern Olympic movement. 

He was also an IOC member in Germany.

I am convinced that to hold the Games in Nazi Germany will be to deal a severe blow to the Olympic idea

She was pressurised into returning to Germany, ostensibly to train for the Games.

Inspired by a hat-trick by the legendary Dhyan Chand, they hammered eight goals against Germany en-route

He turned up at the football to see Germany beaten by Norway.

Whitehead and Clegg raise Paralympic hopes with world records on home ground of London

  • Athletics News
  • 23 Jul 2016 22:18

With less than eight weeks until the Paralympics get underway in Rio, home athletes Richard Whitehead and Libby Clegg provided the Muller Anniversary Games in London with world records in the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletics Grand Prix Final held in the London 2012 stadium.

get it.”There were also wins for Paralympic, world and European long jump T44 champion Markus Rehm of Germany