Bidding for the ball involved in Diego Maradona's infamous "Hand of God" goal at the 1986 FIFA World Cup has reached nearly $1.5 million (£1.25 million/€1.4 million) with a day left before the auction is due to end.

semi-finals, with Maradona scoring both goals, before lifting the trophy with a 3-2 victory over West Germany

Leading experts from Austria, Britain, Canada, Germany, Finland, Japan and Norway are running the rule

Michel Platini, the French midfield maestro turned football administrator, once told me it would annoy him if one day football fans, when asked how their club had got on, replied by quoting the share price instead of the result of their last match.

by the European football body UEFA revealed that players in the Big Five leagues in England, Spain, Germany

Norway finished top of the medals table at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in Whistler, ending the competition with four golds.

gave Italy the men's and women's Nordic combined gold medals.Bortolas defeated Tristan Sommerfeldt of Germany

It's entirely fitting that the family of the late Jimmy Greaves should have been so warm and generous about Harry Kane breaking his all-time Tottenham Hotspur scoring record yesterday - for Greaves was a warm and generous man.

Portugal, or the drama-fest of the final itself, where Hurst scored a hat-trick as England beat West Germany

Switzerland recorded a big upset in Davis Cup qualifying, stunning fourth seeds Germany in a five-match

Canada, runners-up Australia and wildcards Italy and Spain automatically qualified for the Finals.Hosts Germany

Marc-Andrea Hüsler beat Oscar Otte 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 on the hard court surface.The three-times Davis Cup winners Germany

Norway's Halvor Egner Granerud won his fourth consecutive men's International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) Ski Jumping World Cup on the large hill in Willingen, while Yuki Ito led a Japanese podium sweep in the women's event.

placed 13th with 172.3 from jumps of 113.0m and 121.5m, and yesterday's winner Katharina Althaus of Germany

Germany's Julian Schmid triumphed in a dramatic sprint finish to claim a remarkable home victory at the men's International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) Nordic Combined World Cup in Oberstdorf.

too, holding a 1:03 advantage over Rehrl after four of the six World Cup legs in Germany.Schonach in Germany

Germany's Max Langenhan made it back-to-back wins on the International Luge Federation (FIL) World Cup at his home event in Altenberg, and Austria concluded the competition with victory in the team relay.

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Latvia's Elīna Ieva Vītola, Kristers Aparjods, Mārtiņš Bots and Roberts Plūme were third in 2:23.881.Germany

Germany's Francesco Friedrich won the gold medal in the four-man bobsleigh for the fifth consecutive time at the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) World Championships in St Moritz today.

four runs ©IBSFThe four-man bobsleigh brought the curtain down on the IBSF World Championships with Germany

Poland has made history in Belgrade by winning the first Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities.

the highest average ELO rating of 2327.The country's journey to the top started with a 3-1 win over Germany

The 11 teams for the Men's Bandy World Championships have been confirmed, as well as six in the women's, with both tournaments scheduled to take place in at the Eriksson Arena in Åby, just outside of Växjö in Sweden.

Competition starts with Group B fixtures, scheduled for March 24 to 27.Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Netherlands

A few days ago, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy issued a challenge to Thomas Bach when he invited the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President to visit the embattled eastern city of Bakhmut where fierce fighting has been going on for several months now. 

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

trench warfare and which had claimed so many lives during the conflict,It was perhaps no surprise that Germany

 England's football team gave a Nazi salute when they played Germany in Berlin in 1938, but it only

 Garmisch Partenkirchen in Germany host of the 1936 Winter Games was chosen to act as hosts once

again.Even after World War Two broke out, there remained hope that Germany would still host the Winter

South Africa is set to stage the International Hockey Federation Indoor Hockey World Cup with Austria and The Netherlands favourites to claim the respective men's and women's crowns.

is Fabian Unterkircher, who scored both goals in Austria's recent 2-1 victory over home favourites Germany

imperious form throughout the Berlin 2018 competition, winning seven games in succession before hosts Germany

Germany's Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken and Italy's Andrea Vötter and Marion Oberhofer returned to winning ways after claiming the respective men's and women's doubles titles at the International Luge Federation World Cup event in Altenberg.

the overall World Cup crown.They are just 14 points behind leaders Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt of Germany