Tag: Sports history
The history of the rifle club: The first German mass sport – Bavaria
Right at the entrance, Wilhelm Tell and Emperor Maximilian I welcome the visitors, both famous representatives of the marksmanship. More interesting, however, is the cardboard figure next to it, Lienhard…
Boxer Halmich: “The ‘in’ in “World Champion” cost me millions” – Economy
Regina Halmich was more successful as a boxer than any male colleague. Despite this, she earned less for years. A conversation about defeats, macho sayings and lucrative offers that she…
Olympic assassination attempt in 1972: survivors demand compensation – politics
They were celebrated as heroes. Hundreds of enthusiastic people gathered on the evening of October 29, 1972 at the airport of the Libyan capital Tripoli to welcome three men who…