Mayor of Graz Siegfried Nagl from the ÖVP is supporting the bid for a new Ice Skating Hall in Graz and hopes it can attract federal funding. The planned ice centre would be for the Special Olympics which take place in 2017 in Graz. Under the motto ‘Heartbeat for the World” around 3000 sports people […]
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Referendum: the Olympic issue
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The referendum “Wien will’s wissen” will take place from 7 to 9 March 2013. Residents from Vienna can answer four questions, including the issue whether Vienna should apply for the Olympics in 2028. Political parties have commented on the topic. Mayor Michael Häupl (SPÖ) stated that the Olympics would animate young people to do sports […]
Austria Hopes to Forget the Olympics
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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 […]
Austrian swim hopeful Rogan disqualified
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Austria’s swimming Olympic hopeful Markus Rogan has been disqualified from the the 200m Individual Medley swimming semi final at the London Olympics. Rogan, 30, was disqualified due to a technical mistake during a turn. This disqualification signalled the end to Rogan’s appearance in the Olympics and possibly the end of his swimming career. Earlier this […]
Austrian Nordic combined athlete Felix Gottwald, 37, has been given the Ehrenzeichen honorary medal of Salzburg for his sporting achievements. He was born in Zell am See, and now lives in Salzburg, and was an Austrian Nordic combined athlete from 1994 to 2007 and then returned to compete in 2009, including the Olympics. After the […]
By Ivo ScepanovicAn Austrian architect is going to design the ski-jumping facilities on Igman mountain close to Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina.Gernot Ritter presented his project in Sarajevo this week, saying his intent would be to renovate the infrastructure of the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo and create a tourist attraction.The Styrian said that ski-jumping […]