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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.

For 15 years Reebok was a subsidiary of Adidas. Now the Herzogenaurach-based company is looking for a new buyer for the US brand.

If you watch Alexander Megos climbing, you might come to the conclusion the idea of gravity is "fake news". Now the professional climber from the German town of Erlangen is preparing for the rather unloved combined competition at the Olympics as one of the world's best on the rock.

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".

40 years ago - on 20 August 1980 - Reinhold Messner was the first person to climb Mount Everest solo and without additional oxygen. ISPO.com shows the best mountaineers of the world on the occasion of the anniversary.