GERMAN SPORTS, ATHLETES AND THE OLYMPICS

Sports Vocabulary

German sports and related vocab from About.com

  • Sports,hobbies, music - vocab exercises from K. Munro
  • Exercises and links from David Nutting.

    Olympics - who's winning medals? Germany? Austria? Swizterland?

    Sport in Germany

  • Mr. Shea asks Rams' Quarterback Kurt Warner about American football in Germany
  • Golf in Germany - you even need a license!
  • All types of Sports from Sport.de
  • German Sports photos and current stories from Excite
  • Do German schools offer sports?
  • Sports in Germany from the German Way
  • Read about Sports and free time activities in Oskar's Magazine for Youth
  • Soccer/Football in Germany explained in English.
  • NFL Europe - what German cities have teams?
  • German sports links from Rick Spüler
  • Sport links from German Culture at About.com
  • See Austria and Switzerland for Skiing, hiking, outdoor sports, motor sports, etc.
  • German Major League Baseball and German Baseball and Softball Association
  • Baseball in Austria! and the European Baseball Cup (click on ENGLISH).
  • Football in Austria and American Football Verband Österreich.
  • American Football in Austria from the Graz Giants plus photos, teams, women's football, football in Europe, stats and cheerleading
  • QualitySports links from DASAN - Deutsche AuslandsSchularbeit Am Netz
  • Snowboarding in the Alps
  • Mountain Biking, Snowboarding and Freestyle skiing from Grundig Radio.
  • Adi Dassler (adidas) and brother Rolf, founder of Puma.
  • Sports links - from soccer to American football to racing
  • Olympics links in English and German. Many dead links
  • SPORT: all sports, news, photos, hobbies. World of Sports, RAN and Sport1
  • Sport im deutschen Internet and De-Web: more than just soccer and tennis!
  • Lixl's page with all central European sports from A-Z .
  • Social manners, customs, freetime activities in German history, Alltagskultur, toys, food, dress, newspapers

    German Athletes

  • Dirk Nowitski of the Dallas Mavericks
  • NEW:Former St. Louis Blues Player Jochen Hecht's website in English and German.
  • Michael and Ralf Schumacher - formula one race car drivers.
  • Oliver Kahn - goalie for Bayern München Bernhard Langer - pro Golfer.
    Hermann Maier, Franz Klammer and other skiiers.

  • Conduct internet search to find current info on these individuals and other German athletes.

    This list is quite outdated:
    Uwe Krupp, formerly of the Colorado Avalanche. NHL website. Krupp scored the Stanley-Cup game-winning goal in the 95-96 season.
    Olaf Kolzig: goalie for the Washington Capitals and Marco Sturm.
    Detlef Schrempf of the Seattle Sonics.
    Franziska van Almsick. Swimming medalist in the '96 Olympics.
    Martina Hingis (Czech-born, Swiss citizen) Boris Becker, Steffi Graf, Michael Stich, etc.
    Juergen Klinsmann-soccer
    Henry Maske - light heavyweight boxer. I once saw him fight an American who used every dirty trick in the book. Maske both outclassed and out-boxed him, saying afterwards that this was to be expected from today's US boxers. A huge understatement, if you had seen the match.
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