Germany should bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics, the board of the German Olympic Committee (DOSB) decided on Tuesday with either Berlin or Hamburg the favoured potential candidate.
Germany's capital and its gateway to the North Sea each released details of their Olympic bids on Monday as the race for the 2024 or 2028 summer games nominations picks up momentum.
Paralympics gold medallist Markus Rehm triumphed over his non-disabled rivals on Saturday, winning the German long jump championship. But athletics officials are now reviewing whether his prosthetic leg gave him an unfair advantage.
A former German Olympic gymnast jumped to his death from a bridge on Monday night after reportedly suffocating his disabled teenage son to death in his bed.
Germany's Maria Höfl-Riesch defended her Olympic super-combined gold in superb fashion on Monday, proving she was the woman to beat in the discipline.
If Gianina Ernst had been born a few hours later she would not be going to the Winter Games. But the fifteen-year-old ski jumper is now on the road to Sochi success, making her The Local’s German of the Week.
German President Joachim Gauck has been showered with praise and criticism after reportedly telling Russia he would boycott the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February.
German sporting figures reacted with surprise after Bavarians voted against a proposal for Munich to bid for the Winter Olympics in 2022. Has the country fallen out of love with sport or was it a rejection of the Olympic establishment?
Munich's bid to host the Winter Olympic Games in 2022 has failed after its citizens voted no in a referendum on Sunday. Politicians and sporting officials are searching for reasons behind the result.
Munich is preparing a bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, but first the plan must pass a referendum. And one environmental group could stop play if it refuses to lend its support.
On Tuesday, former fencer Thomas Bach became the most powerful man in international sport after being elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He is the first German in 119 years to hold the position making him our German of the Week.
The president of the German Olympic Committee has attempted to quash a scandal around government-backed doping in former West Germany. He insisted on Tuesday that a recent study had not exposed another drug scandal in sport.
German luge athletes made a clean sweep of the gold medals this weekend at this year’s world championship event in Canada, just one year before the 2014 Winter Olympic games in Russia.
German Olympic hero David Storl, who won the shot put silver medal at London 2012, has been denied a state honour from the president because of an unfortunate incident with a dog and an air rifle.
There was triumph and near-triumph in the world of endurance sports on Saturday as one German athlete won a gruelling 245.3 kilometre ultra-marathon and another just missed out in an Olympic triathlon.
Relatives of 11 Israeli victims of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre joined survivors and politicians Wednesday to pay tribute at the site of their killings 40 years ago in Germany.
Germany won its first medal in this year's Paralympic Games on Thursday after triumphing in the air rifle shooting. Manuela Schmermund had already bagged a silver medal in the Beijing Paralympics, and gold in Athens.
Not only did the German national hockey team win Olympic gold this summer – they proved themselves champions in destructive partying – and are now facing a bill for half a million euros for their post-victory celebrations.
Around 20,000 excited Hamburgers turned up to welcome Germany's Olympic athletes home on Wednesday morning. More than half of those who had competed in London came back to Germany on the MS Deutschland cruise ship.
While Olympic stars Usain Bolt, Chris Hoy and Jessica Ennis can probably choose between lucrative sponsorship and advertising deals, the Germans have come out of the Games without any stars likely to pick up such deals.
Germany finished the Olympic Games on Sunday in a respectable 6th place with 44 medals - three more than they took home in the Beijing Games four years ago.
Germany won the Olympic title for the second successive time when they triumphed 2-1 against the Netherlands, the former champions, in a blood and thunder final on Saturday.
