The Mountain Bike World Championships opened in Saalfelden in Pinzgau last night (Weds). More than 750 mountain bikers from around the world are to take part in the event. From today training will start for the down hill course in Leogang in Pinzgau. Ten Austrians (Seven men and three women) are competing in the event. […]
Rapid Vienna have been handed a fine and will face playing a Europa League match behind closed doors following a flair fight between fans and pitch invasions by supporters last week at the first leg of the game in Greece between Rapid and PAOK Salonika. The first leg of the Europa League play-off was won […]
UK championship league club Wolverhampton Wanderers have completed the signing of defender Georg Margreitter for an undisclosed fee from FK Austria Wien. The 23-year-old, capped 11 times by Austria’s Under-21 side, has agreed a four-year contract at Molineux. “We have been searching for a central defender and Georg fits the billing,” said Wolves manager Stale […]
After Austria’s disappointing return with no medals from this summer’s Olympic Games in London the Austrian People’s Party the ÖVP wants to make Austrian sports training facilities ‘fit for the next Olympics’. Manfred Juraczka, boss of the ÖVP in Vienna, is demanding action from the Vienna City council. He wants improved infrastructure and improved training […]
The director of Red Bull Salzburg football team has been replaced just half a year after taking up his position. Peter Vogl will be replaced by 40-year-old Jochen Sauer from German Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg from September. Vogl will however in the future continue to work as an advisor and lawyer, Red Bull confirmed. Sauer […]
The Austrian National Football team won their friendly against Turkey 2-0 last night (Weds). This victory puts the team off to a confident start for the World Cup qualifiers which begin on September 11th with a game against Germany. Veli Kavlak scored the opener after just 51 seconds and the second goal came just minutes […]
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 […]
From Autumn 2013 a new cable car will be in use in Wagrain in the Pongau which will connect the town’s two ski resorts. Two weeks ago the construction work for the 14 million Euro project began after four years of planning. The new ski lift will transport 130 people at a time two kilometres […]
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 […]