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Berlin police have taken 71 fans into custody since Wednesday night around the European Conference League match between Union Berlin and Dutch side Feyenoord. Police said that more than 1,000 Dutch fans had arrived on the eve of Thursday’s game and tha…

Union Berlin will be without forward Max Kruse again when they host Feyenoord in the Conference League on Thursday. Coach Urs Fischer said on Wednesday that Kruse is still nursing back and thigh muscle problems. The veteran is the only absentee for the…

Four-time cross-country skiing Olympic champion Dario Cologna of Switzerland will end his career after the upcoming season highlighted by the Beijing Games. The 35-year-old skier made the announcement in a short statement issued on Wednesday by the Swi…

Modern pentathlon plans to ditch horse riding after disturbing scenes at the Tokyo Olympics and replace it with cycling, British paper The Guardian said on Tuesday. The Guardian said it had been told by several sources that the executive board of the g…

Germany’s Alexander Zverev claimed his fifth title of a golden tennis year on Sunday with a convincing 7-5, 6-4 victory over American qualifier Frances Tiafoe at the ATP tournament in Vienna. The 24-year-old Zverev needed 1 hour 36 minutes to add his l…

Germany’s Alexander Zverev claimed his fifth title of a golden tennis year on Sunday with a convincing 7-5, 6-4 victory over American qualifier Frances Tiafoe at the ATP tournament in Vienna. The 24-year-old Zverev needed 1 hour 36 minutes to add his l…

Germany’s Olympic champion Alexander Zverev will face American Frances Tiafoe for a fifth title of the season on Sunday in the final of the ATP indoor tournament in Vienna. Zverev needed only 1 hour 9 minutes to dispose of Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz 6-3, 6…

Union Berlin have been hit with a partial stadium closer at their next Conference League match by the ruling body UEFA after anti-Semitic incidents at a recent game against Maccabi Haifa. UEFA said that the two main sections for home fans in the Olympi…

Stan Bowman on Tuesday stepped down as general manager of the 2022 US Olympic men’s ice hockey team, just over 100 days before the start of the Beijing Winter Games. “In light of what’s happened today, I think it’s in the best interests of USA Hockey f…

Norway’s cross-country skiing star Therese Johaug will in all likelihood not take part in the Tour de Ski before the Winter Olympics in Beijing. The Tour de Ski starts December 28 in Switzerland and ends January 4 – a month before the Olympics begin. T…