The Goethe-Institut’s #180sec short video series, which explores different cities around the world, visits the streets of Cologne. Here, local inline skater Matwej explains why it's no longer possible to skate on the square in front of the world-famous Kölner Dom (Cologne Cathedral), and where the skaters go now.

Why are sky divers always grinning and what sort of people participate in this sport anyway? In Part Two you’ll learn about all this and more.

Now to the heart of the matter: Reporter Petra Heissen risks a jump from an airplane.

Germany's top tennis player Angelique Kerber does a photo shoot with the new Porsche and talks about her plans and goals for the future.

The Frankfurt basketball team Deutsche Bank Skyliners look back on past seasons and talk about their chances for the first play-off round against the favourite Alba Berlin.

Private, personal, real: three years after winning the NBA title, a documentary about Dirk Nowitzki comes to the cinema. There has never been such deep insight into the life of the "German Wunderkind." (video copyright dpa)

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Colorful disks fly over the castle of Karlsruhe, hit a garbage can and are cheered on by a few guys… Welcome to disk golf Karlsruhe!

The soccer champions BVB Dortmund and FC Bavaria Munich both have their eyes on the prizes again this year. Hear some of the club managers tell their strategy to get to the championship game, which will take place at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium on May 12th this year.
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Sports-News on RheinMainTV: The German basketball team Frankfurt Skyliners comes back with a win over Oldenburg after two recent defeats by Bonn and Ulm.

Once again, the national championships of beach soccer took place on the German island of Fehmarn. The team “Primus Inter Pares” were the surprise winners. Video provided by

In the bay of Orth on Fehmarn newcomer Alexander Lehmann became new German speed surfing champion.
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A report from the Fehmarn Surf Festival, including an interview with 35-time world champion Björn Dunkerbeck. Video from the .

Fifty ice-hockey fans, big and small, were given the opportunity to train with the Frankfurt Lions and their new sports director Erich Kühnhackl.

Brush up on your sports vocabulary with this report on Germany's ice hockey league!

It is getting warm again outside and it's time to get out your bicycle! But before you hit the road, you may want to make some safety checks, outlined in this video, to avoid any nasty surprises! (video copyright dpa)

It just had to rain cats and dog on this of all days, as football team FC Bayern celebrated their Triple Crown win. 16,000 fans didn't let the weather get them down, though! (video copyright dpa)

There's tension in the race for Euro Cup places, as well as, a dramatic struggle to avoid relegation. Apart from Bayern-München, who is in a league of its own, the rest of the season promises to be interesting. For example, at the moment Nuremberg is on the rise, while the Bundesliga's dinosaur Hamburg is fighting for its life.

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No human being has ever raced towards the Earth in free fall so fast and from so high up! The Austrian extreme sportsman Felix Baumgartner is being celebrated worldwide after his supersonic jump.
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Timo Glock’s job as a racecar driver takes him to countries like Japan or Australia, but in his spare time he likes to return home to South Hessen.

Yabla's star reporter Diane takes us on a tour of the team sport Ultimate Frisbee at the Karlsruhe Christmas Cup. If you are up for starting the day with frisbee and a cold beer, then you have come to the right place!

In part two of this series, Yabla star reporter Diane is live and in person at the Christmas Cup Frisbee Championships in Karlsruhe. Diane interviews several players and we get some great shots of the game itself. Enjoy!

Günter Knappe and Steffi Hirth of radio station Die Neue Welle [The New Wave], new media partner of the KSC, interview the president of FV Linkenheim as well as KSC coach Ede Becker.

Harald Linder from the weekly paper “Kurier” asks KSC coach Ede Becker about the new soccer season.

Günter Knappe interviews Jens Zielinski and Steffi Hirth of the KSC’s (Karlsruher Sport Club) new media partner Die Neue Welle.