Lauda looking for new head sponsor

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Niki Lauda is reportedly seeking a new “head sponsor” as the cooperation contract with OC Oerlikon expires at the end of this year.Newspapers report today (Thurs) that the struggling Swiss technology firm will not extend the deal securing it a place on the front of Lauda’s iconic red baseball cap for an alleged 1.2 million […]

‘Racist’ Vienna policemen in court

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Four Vienna policemen are accused of racially insulting a Turkish-born Austrian Olympic athlete.Viennese taekwondo star Tuncay Caliskan – who came fourth in the 2000 Olympic Games and also qualified for the event four years later – claims the officers verbally abused him when he tried to report an attempted assault on him in the street.Caliskan […]

Teen baseball attack as card game turns nasty

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A teenage gambler has been arrested after he invited pals around for a card game – and then attacked them with a baseball bat.A 49-year-old man told cops he and a 19-year-old girl had been playing with the teenager when he suddenly stopped, picked up a baseball bat and started to attack them.Police said the […]