Hamburg - Janne Ahonen announced Monday that he is to return to ski-jumping less than a year after announcing his retirement from the sport, the Finnish STT news agency reported Monday.
Ahonen called time on his career in March 2008, just two and a half months after claiming a record fifth title at the prestigious Four Hills tour, saying he no longer had the drive to train and wanted to call it a day at the peak of his powers.
Hamburg - Spain's Rafael Nadal continues to head an unchanged ATP men's tennis rankings Top 10 issued by the ruling body on Monday, followed by Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic.
At the top, Nadal has 14,360 points, while Federer stands on 11,000.
ATP top 10 as of March 9 (previous ranking in parenthesis):
Hamburg - Former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich said the question of whether he was ever guilty of doping would be answered in a book he intended to write.
"These questions are not that easy to answer. Such things will be written about in a book which I will write for my fans and also for myself," he was quoted as saying in the Bild am Sonntag newspaper.
The 1997 Tour winner said that he would give himself as much time as he needed to write the book.
Ullrich suggested in the interview that not everything had been above board during his career.
Hamburg - Hertha Berlin have moved closer to realizing club manager Dieter Hoeness's dream of parading the Bundesliga trophy through Brandenburg Gate.
A hat-trick by on-loan striker Andrey Voronin in a 3-1 win at Energie Cottbus on Saturday has put the Berlin club four points clear at the top with 11 matches remaining.
Yet Hoeness and Hertha are doing their best not to raise hopes in the German capital of a first title win for 78 years, decades before the Bundesliga began in 1963.
Hamburg - Janne Ahonen announced Monday that he is to return to ski-jumping less than a year after announcing his retirement from the sport, the Finnish STT news agency reported Monday.
Hamburg - Spain's Rafael Nadal continues to head an unchanged ATP men's tennis rankings Top 10 issued by the ruling body on Monday, followed by Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic.
Hamburg - American Serena Williams remains top of an unchanged women's tennis rankings issued Monday by the WTA ruling body.
Hamburg/Berlin - Winter is almost over in the Northern Hemisphere and hay fever sufferers are already beginning to sneeze and sniffle.
Hamburg - Former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich said the question of whether he was ever guilty of doping would be answered in a book he intended to write.
Hamburg - Hertha Berlin have moved closer to realizing club manager Dieter Hoeness's dream of parading the Bundesliga trophy through Brandenburg Gate.
