Concentration, agility and leaping ability... Beach volleyball sounds like an enjoyable leisure activity, but it is both an Olympic sport and and a tough, serious professional sport. Enjoy!
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The swimming style known as Butterfly (or previously as Dolphin-style), is recognised as an official swimming style since 1953. This video explains how top athletes achieve excellence in the pool.
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Diving from a tower is officially called platform diving, and has a long Olympic tradition, having been an official Olympic sport since 1904.
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The high jump has been an Olympic discipline since 1896 for men and since 1928 for women. In this clip, the predominant jumping technique, the Fosbury flop, is explained and demonstrated step-by-step. Copyright: Deutsche Presse Agentur [The German Press Agency]

BMX riders are the cool rebels who do their awesome bike tricks on the back streets, right? Not quite: BMX has now hit the big time and made it to the Olympic Games.
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The guys might not be the good players that they claimed to be, or perhaps they are just out of practice? They debate what the key is to staying in shape.

The battle against the extra pounds, less social contact and scarcely having enough enough time for themselves: brand-new mothers could write a book about it. However, a new fitness trend is sweeping Germany and it ought to help mothers who find themselves in this dilemma. Copyright: Deutsche Presse Agentur [The German Press Agency]

When you think of surfing, Hawaii probably comes to mind, but Munich, Germany? For years, the Eisbach stream was symbolized the exotic side of Munich, but in recent years it has become one of the city's major tourist attractions. So head to Bavaria and catch a wave, dude! (video copyright dpa)

Martin Neitzke, a student of sports sciences, bicycled nearly seven thousand miles across South America! A video report from RheinMain TV. Viel Spaß!

German pop singer Mister Santos performs his World Cup anthem "Das dicke, dicke Ding" [The Big Fat Thing"]. He's firing up the German fan faithful and, above all, die Jungs themselves — their own national team in Brazil. In some places of the world, winning the ultimate prize is described as "bringing home the bacon or the bling," in Germany they "must have stars" and "go get big fat things."Viel Spaß beim Mitfiebern!

Formula 1 driver Michael Schumacher talked a few years ago about his post-career future with confidence, which is difficult to see now with knowledge of his terrible skiing accident in 2013. This is from an interview with the world champion at a sponsors' meeting in Berlin.
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Formula One meets the German National Soccer Team: World champion Michael Schuhmacher and race car driver Nico Rossberg show the German team (including Marco Reus) how the new Mercedes A-Class drives.

Lucas Steier shares his love of extreme sports, with us. We see up close what it is like to test the largest roller coaster in Europe and jump from a bungee cord set up in the Swiss Versaska Valley.

What are the favorite dishes of our soccer stars? For example, Bastian Schweinsteiger loves spaghetti bolognese and Per Mertesacker prefers tomato soup. The team's head chef shares all! Viel Spaß beim Zuschauen!
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14-year-old Kim Heizmann has proven that soccer is about so much more than scoring goals. In fact, he very probably saved the life of the opponents' goalkeeper during one match.