Bavaria basketball players want to end cup curse

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Bavaria basketball players want to end cup curse

The time is ripe: at the top-four tournament for the german basketball cup, the FC bayern munchen hoopers want to end their 50-year curse and take home the trophy for the second time since 1968.

"We have to be mentally ready for the weekend and focus on ourselves," said bayern coach sasa djordjevic ahead of the semifinals against host ratiopharm ulm this saturday (16.00 a.M.).

Since 1993, basketball players have won the cup in a four-team tournament, with ALBA berlin and medi bayreuth also hoping to win this time in neu-ulm. "Bringing home a cup is always great," said ALBA pro luke sikma, who will play in the second semifinal duel on saturday (19.00 o’clock) is called for.

The berliners already have their tenth triumph in sight, joining record winner bayer leverkusen. "We have always presented ourselves well in the cup in recent years. We’ll see if we can make it to the final, then we’ll see," said ALBA manager marco baldi. "But the bavarians are clear favorites. They are very consistent, very stable and deep."

Munich have only suffered one defeat on the national stage this season – and that was four months ago. However, the bavarians have always come away empty-handed in their four participations in the final round tournament so far. "We must not think about what was or what could follow," djordjevic urged. "If we are focused and disciplined, we should be able to generate plenty of adrenaline for the right energy level."

In 2014, the sovereign bundesliga leaders came up short against ulm in the semifinals – but they don’t want that history to repeat itself. "Of course we want to fight for the cup in the final and finally get it," said bayern captain anton gavel.

The ulm team, on the other hand, has fond memories of the duel four years ago, which should inspire the hosts. "If we get to the limit of our capabilities, then we can beat the bavarians," said national player per gunther. Just like when we won 90:72.

Ulm’s coach thorsten leibenath, who still has to fight with his team for a place in the playoffs, sees the pressure on the opponent anyway: "we’re going into the game as underdogs and can play with a certain amount of freedom. Nobody expects anything from us right now and that’s why we will go out and give the munich team a merciless fight."

This is what the bavarians are prepared for. "It’s going to be a tough game. We really have to be ready for anything and be ready to play hard for 40 minutes," said winger reggie redding. "We won the league game at their place clearly, but we know that it won’t happen again like that."

The youth summer vacation program in the community of altenkunstadt went into its next round. This time, the children and young people were given the opportunity to make a boomerang, which used to be the weapon of such well-known tribes as the aborigines. Gerhard kunze shows how it's done.

The oldest boomerangs made of wood were unearthed during excavations in australia, they are about 10 000 years old. Even older are boomerang finds, which were made from the stob tooth of a woolly mammoth, and even in agyptian burial chambers litter woods belonged to the grave goods. The traditional shape of a boomerang, explained gerhard kunze, resembles the letter "L"; however, there are now designs that have three and more "poor" ants. But all of them have a rather similar shape, which creates a dynamic buoyancy. It resembles the wing profile of an airplane. There were always two main distinctions: the hunting boomerangs, which could fly farther and more unerringly, and the so-called "return boomerangs" which returned to their launcher.

The latter were then immediately allowed to attack the girls and boys. Gerhard kunze decided not to use hardwood as usual, but plywood, which is easier to work with by children. Of course, the flight characteristics of the homemade boomerangs were also tested right away.

During a short visit, first mayor robert hummer was also pleased about the interest and thanked gerhard kunze for his efforts.

surfer dies after shark attack off australian east coast

Heroic action without a happy ending: two surfers fought a rough shark off the east coast of australia on sunday and pulled another surfer, who had been bitten by the animal, to the beach.

But his left leg injuries were too severe – the 60-year-old from the state of queensland died despite immediate treatment, police reported. It is assumed that the three meter long attacker was a female shark. The attack occurred at the popular salt beach near kingscliff, 800 kilometers north of sydney.

The nearby beaches were then cleared, bathers and surfers had to leave the waters. Helicopters set off in search of the shark. A female shark was spotted and tracked. The beaches were initially to remain closed for 24 hours for the police investigation.

It was the third deadly shark attack this year in australian waters. In addition, there were seven other attacks, but they did not end fatally.

The spokesman for the rescue services, terry savage, told the ABC that the man's injuries were significant. The incident is very disturbing. He described the two men who fought the shark and helped the injured man ashore as "unbelievable". "It was downright heroic to bring him to the beach."

James owen, a member of the local surf club, told the "sydney morning herald" the death was a "terrible, tragic event. "It's a shock for everyone at the moment."He was not aware of any previous fatal shark attacks in the area.

Stuart gonsal, who lives in kingscliff, told ABC he had just arrived at the beach to surf when the police called people out of the water. There had been a lot of fish in the waters recently, many fishing boats had been on the water.

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