Rapid Vienna have unveiled the designs for the football club’s new stadium in the Austrian capital to a standing ovation and an emotional presentation featuring players from past and present. The new stadium, which managers say will be ready for use by 2016, will up the capacity for games to 28,000 and expect to bring […]
Racer Lewis Hamilton has resorted to training on a simulator ahead of the upcoming competition at Austria’s Red Bull Ring. Hamilton has said that he does not know anything about the track but is preparing so he is up to speed ahead of the race on 20-22 June. “I don’t know which way Turn One […]
Top Austrian golfer Bernd Wiesberger was pipped to the post at the Austrian Open play-offs on Sunday by Swede Mikael Lundberg. Lundberg managed to hold off the 2012 European Tour champion with a 40-foot birdie putt on the par-three 18th hole. The win was the 49-year-old Swede’s first European Tour victory in nearly six years. […]
FIFA extend Taboga ban worldwide
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The life time football ban imposed upon player Dominique Taboga by the Austrian Football Association (ÖFB) in February for match-fixing has been extended by FIFA today to include worldwide activities. Austrian former top league player Taboga was sanctioned by ÖFB following allegations he had been involved in match manipulation. Taboga used to play for Salzburg […]
Possible move to Newcastle for Soriano
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Football player for Salzburg Jonathan Soriano has been linked to a move to Newcastle United, according to reports in Austrian media. Twenty-nine-year-old Soriano has been playing for FC Red Bull Salzburg in Austria since January 2012, and during that time the club has won the Austrian championship in the last two seasons. Soriano himself is […]
Austrian skier Matthias Mayer of Austria has won the final World Cup downhill in Switzerland today, coming in ahead of Italy’s Christof Innerhofer and US skier Ted Ligety. Twenty-three-year-old Matthias Mayer is an Olympic champion who won a surprise gold medal in the men’s downhill at the Sochi Winter Games just a few weeks ago. […]
German satire magazine Titanic has sunk to a new low after printing a picture of Austrian Formula One Legend Niki Lauda with the title – ‘Exclusive – First Photo After The Accident – This is how badly it affected Schumi’. Titanic then goes on to claim Michael Schuhmacher, who is in a coma after his […]
Austrian ski resorts are reporting optimal skiing conditions in time for the opening of the ski season. Some say they have more snow than ever for the time of year especially on glaciers in the popular Austrian ski region of Tirol. Yesterday (Sunday) more than 7000 skiers visited the Stubtai Glacier where they enjoyed the […]
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 […]
At the end of August Austria’s first man-made wild water trail will open on the Donauinsel as part of the new water sports centre. The project which cost a total of 3.9 million Euro means that Olympic sports such as rowing and canoeing can take place on the Danube. The rowing centre is still being […]