“Moment has arrived”: Gorges unexpectedly ends tennis career

With emotional words addressed to her sport, former wimbledon semi-finalist julia gorges has ended her career.

"Dear tennis," wrote the 31-year-old longtime german number two next to a photo from childhood tennis hits: "i’ve always known i’d feel it when the right time came to say tschuss to you – the moment is here."She is ready to "close the chapter on tennis and open a new one", which she is very much looking forward to.

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Mangos for the horse and declaration of love: blum celebrates gold

Mangos for the horse and declaration of love: blum celebrates gold

Mangos for the mare, wine for the welmeister – and a declaration of love for the friend. "He is the most wonderful man in the world," the new world champion in show jumping gushed about her life’s journeys. In four weeks, simone blum wants to marry hans gunther goskowitz.

Goskowitz takes girlfriend’s name after wedding. "Now that’s not a bad name," the new world champion joked happily. After the world championships in the USA, blum is in the same league as the big names in equestrian sport. With german world champions hans gunter winkler, hartwig steenken, gerd wiltfang, norbert koof and franke sloothaak.

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Karstadt sports plans to double its online business

Karstadt sports plans to double its online business

Karstadt sports plans to significantly expand its online business following the takeover of the former otto subsidiary sport scheck.

The goal is to double sales through e-commerce within the next five years, the new head of the sporting goods retailer, thomas wanke, told the "welt" newspaper. Sport scheck is a strong online and offline marketplace. However, it has so far lacked a sufficiently coarse network of outlets to dovetail with the local stationary trade.

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Tension in Hagenbach

Hagenbach – with the opening of the sliding hall in connection with the open house, the tourist infrastructure of the french switzerland region has experienced an interesting enrichment. But also all interested residents and inhabitants of the neighboring communities of pretzfeld-hagenbach had the opportunity to get to know the center for traditional and intuitive arching in the region of french switzerland.
The goal of the two responsible managers, jochen vogt and jan kreissl, together with a team of eight trainers, is to bring the sport of archery closer to the interested public in the local region. Families who want to experience a special kind of excursion are just as welcome as employees of entire companies who want to get to know this special sport on the occasion of a company outing.
Since bowhunting is one of the oldest forms of hunting known to mankind, the focus is on traditional and traditional hunting. The intuitive bowing, the original form, as mankind has been doing it for about 30,000 years. The bow lacks a special technical aiming device. In trial courses, anyone interested can experience that after about an hour of instruction, the intended targets can be hit.
"Experienced" archers have the opportunity to test their sliding skills in the new 3D parcour "lakengrund (in the land behind the sliding hall) with its 14 sliding stations, where the natural hunting sliding on animal dummies is practiced, to perfect. Another 3D course is available with 30 stations at rothelfels, the most coherent rocky outcrop in french switzerland near morschreuth and urspring.

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City and city association honor athletes

Basketball, canoeing, swimming, athletics – the range of sports was broad and is not exhaustive when mayor christian lange and wolfgang reichmann, chairman of the bamberg sports association, held this year’s sportsmanship ceremony in the auditorium of the graf stauffenberg school.

Lange and reichmann presented the certificates and medals to seven school teams, 19 club teams, 64 individual athletes and three deserving functionaries. Athletes who have achieved at least one vice-championship and "of whom the sports city of bamberg can be proud" were honored. Congratulations to all of you. This athletic performance is only achieved by those who make a continuous effort over a period of years", so long in his grubwort. He also thanked the coaches, teachers and family members who made this success possible for the athletes.

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Power struggle in the dfb: professional representatives want to reform the association

Power struggle in the dfb: professional representatives want to reform the association

The sluggish handling of the national team’s world cup debacle has reopened the old rifts between amateur and professional soccer in the DFB.

For weeks, the representatives of the bundesliga clubs and their umbrella organization, the german football league (DFL), had no comment on the disgraceful failure of the german national team in the final round in russia and the disastrous handling of the erdogan affair surrounding the resignation of mesut ozil. But for a few days now – led by the attack department of the FC bayern – verbal fire has been coming out of all the pipes. The power struggle is in full swing.

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