Sport compact: Half a team from Mainz 05 has to be in corona quarantine

From “A” for American football to “F” for football to “Z” for decathlon. The world of sport is diverse. Every day there are sometimes more, sometimes less important competitions that are hardly noticed or even go under because of the dominance of a few sports. Wrongly – we think – and at this point we also and above all report on high-class sport apart from king football.

August 11th: 14 players and coaches from Mainz 05 have to be quarantined

Immediately before the start of the new Bundesliga season, FSV Mainz 05 is deeply in the corona chaos. A total of three players and an assistant coach tested positive for the virus, ten other people were quarantined by the health department, as the 05er announced on Wednesday. The club canceled the team training on the advice of the authorities, but in view of the number of acute cases that have recently increased daily, the question also arises: Can the runner-up RB Leipzig be played at all on Sunday (3.30 p.m. / Sky)?

The 05ers continue their PCR tests “daily”. If further cases arise, the game could also be canceled on the first day of the match. “All sick people were immediately placed in quarantine at home. Except for slight symptoms, they are fine,” wrote the Mainz-based company. Among those infected there are also two people who already have full vaccination protection. With the exception of Karim Onisiwo, whose positive case became public on Sunday, names were not mentioned.

August 11th: Rummenigge calls for reform of financial fair play

Former Bayern board member Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has again spoken out in favor of stricter financial controls in European football. “It already exists in the form of Financial Fair Play. It just needs to be adapted and used and demanded more stringently,” said Rummenigge of “Sport Bild”. The 65-year-old sits as a representative of the club association ECA on the Executive Committee of the European Football Union. Stricter rules are an “absolute necessity,” said Rummenigge. “Uefa President Aleksander Ceferin sees it similarly.”

August 11: Bobic joins Common Goal – football should remain a “popular sport”

Hertha Managing Director Fredi Bobic has joined the Common Goal social initiative and has warned against too much technical innovation in football. “I hope it doesn’t get too technical and that many basics and traditional values ​​still remain, that we still have people who really enjoy watching football,” said the former international in a video released on Wednesday. “I just hope that it will remain a popular sport,” said the new sports director of the Berlin Bundesliga club.

August 11th: Schleu pentathlete after riding drama – “Difficult to recover from it”

The modern pentathlete Annika Schleu is considering doing without her social media activities in the future after the riding drama at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. “I’m almost as far as to say that it is more important to me to cope with it mentally than to generate sponsors. I don’t want to have to expose myself to this hatred,” said the 31-year-old in an interview with the weekly newspaper “Die Zeit”. “Once you’ve experienced something like me, it’s very difficult to recover from it.” The hatred that she was shown on social media superimposed the disappointment about the missed medal. She felt humiliated by the pictures that showed her crying on the horse.

August 5th: Motorcycle legend Valentino Rossi announces the end of his career

Superstar Valentino Rossi ended his motorcycle career after this season. The 42-year-old Italian announced this on Thursday afternoon at a press conference in Spielberg, Austria. Since the 1996 season Rossi has been a regular rider in the motorcycle world championship, collecting a total of nine world championship titles in four different classes.

His last triumph came in 2009 in the premier class, MotoGP. With a total of 115 Grand Prix victories, Rossi came close to the record of his legendary compatriot Giacomo Agostini (122). In the future, the Italian would like to switch from two to four wheels.

August 3: Corona case at Bremer SV – Cup game against FC Bayern postponed

The shortest path to a title in German professional football usually starts with a nasty stumbling block – but that is also different this time. For long-term champions FC Bayern Munich and his new head coach Julian Nagelsmann, the first title mission does not start at all. The cup opener planned for Friday evening at Bremer SV was postponed by the German Football Association after a corona case became known to the league club. “The background is the officially ordered quarantine measures for the Bremen SV,” said the DFB. The association will “decide as quickly as possible in coordination with both clubs” about rescheduling the game. The draw for the second main round must therefore be postponed.