The Olympic fencing federation FIE and its Hamburg lawyer announced a purported legal victory over Reuters to the world. I obtained both court orders and read them against that propaganda. Very little of what the federation and its lawyer claim about these decisions survives the comparison.
All 55 UEFA associations stand as one: no European national team will play in a FIFA competition for as long as Infantino's plan to sell stakes in the World Cup stands. In 30 years I cannot recall a threat of this magnitude. Read the full statement — and FIFA's own 25-page FFE presentation.
Has FIFA and IOC fiend Gianni Infantino gone too far this time? Or will he manage it once again: to split the football world with his plan to spin off FIFA's assets into a company part-owned by dubious investors, and at the same time bait the majority of member associations with money?
Wird noch über die Transfersumme verhandelt? Meldungen über die Verpflichtung der UEFA-Direktorin Keßler als Staatsministerin im Bundeskanzleramt wollte Friedrich Merz nicht bestätigen. Die abberufene Christiane Schenderlein wird, erneut fachfremd, Staatssekretärin im Gesundheitsministerium.
Olympiabewerbungen und olympisches Programm: Auf der 146. Session in Lausanne beerdigt das IOC mehrere Kernpunkte der Ära Thomas Bach und kehrt zu einigen Prinzipien zurück, die maßgeblich unter dem Belgier Jacques Rogge entwickelt wurden.