Austria will no longer support “Olympic tourists”, the country’s sports minister Norbert Darabos said in an interview with the Kurier newspaper. Promising a major shake-up of state support for competitors after the country failed to win a summer Olympic Games medal for the first time in half a century. Legislation to be crafted this year […]
Austria’s disastrous performance in the summer Olympics has not gone unnoticed in the world where international wire agency Reuters has now put a spotlight on the total failure to get a medal. Reuters reporter Michael Shields wrote that winter can’t come soon enough for Austrian sports fans who he said were lamenting a summer Olympics […]
A Swimming World Championship hopeful had to be freed from a large hole in a complex operation on Sunday.Jakub Maly from Eisenstadt in the eastern Austrian province of Burgenland dug the two-metre deep hole before jumping in for fun at Pomano Beach in Florida, United States. It took the more than 50 rescuers two hours […]
Benjamin Raich failed to win bronze in todays (Mon) World Championship Super-Combined event by a fraction of a second.The Tyrolean skier came fourth, just 27 hundredths of a second behind Italian Peter Fill. Norwegian 2010 Olympic Games Super-G champion Aksel Lund Svindal won the event ahead of Fills compatriot Christof Innerhofer.At 12th Joachim Puchner from […]
Current exhibitions at museums in Vienna provide a fascinating insight into a wide spectrum of areas, from medals of the Royal Habsburg Family to photographic portraits of celebrated writers.On show at the citys Museum of Art (Kunsthistorisches Museum, KHM; www.khm.at) at the moment are 250 medals from the Roman-German empire and leaders of the Austrian-Hungarian […]
Austrian two-seater Lugers Andreas and Wolfgang Linger, from Hall in Tyrol, defended their 2006 Olympic Gold medal in yesterdays (Weds) Vancouver Games event.Wolfgang Linger said after the race: “We sleighed on a wave of euphoria. My brother and I have been dreaming of this moment for four years since our victory at the Turin […]