Team spirit can turn underdogs into top teams and high-profile individualists into a dream team for the history books. We present seven teams that made sporting history.
Seven good and inspiring messages from the sports world from us to you. And we're getting right into it, too. With a week dominated by the LGBTQ movement, the closing of the gender pay gap in the women's basketball league a happy ending better than Hollywood and much more.
How does passion for sport express itself in professionals? We show five types of passion: from impressive comebackers, gluttons, multi-talents - and world stars for whom the passion had suddenly gone out.
In January, the death of Kobe Bryant and eight other people, including his daughter Gianna, in a helicopter crash shook the sports world. In August, the month of his birthday, the Los Angeles Lakers, Nike and Bryant's former hometown posthumously honor the "Black Mamba".
Especially for athletes, showing attitude can be a disadvantage in the fight for victories, medals or new contracts. Nevertheless, several athletes stand up for values time and again. ISPO.com honours them in this gallery.
In view of Covid-19, sports clubs and associations have found creative solutions to run leagues and events - from new tournament formats to unusual cooperations. But the crisis is not over yet: Amateur sport is suffering from the restrictions - and without fans, things will get complicated even for the professionals.
Tennis star Roger Federer even outshines football stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi in the Forbes ranking of the highest paid athletes in 2020. Only two women make it into the top 100.
