With a loud bang, a french air force rafale fighter jet scared hundreds of thousands of people in paris and the surrounding area.

The military plane broke the sound barrier to get to a liner that had lost radio contact, defense minister florence parly announced via twitter on wednesday.

Many people initially thought it was an explosion. A reporter from the german press agency reported a pressure wave in the south of paris that briefly printed his house inwards.

Bamberg enjoys the reputation of being a very sporty city. Even more so since the volleyball players of the VG bamberg, the "mediteam volleys", to talk about. Just one year they stayed in the bavarian league, in the coming season they will play in the regional league sudost. The FT talked to werner kuhhorn, the chairman of the volleyball association bamberg (FVVB), who is involved in this function as team coordinator for the first women’s team of the VG bamberg. The bamberg volleyball departments of post-SV, MTV bamberg and FC eintracht 2010 are united in the VGB.

As a promoted team, we played a top season, were runners-up, and then managed to win promotion again in an exciting relegation tournament: are you surprised by this development??

Werner kuhhorn: of course, this success came as a complete surprise to all of us. Our goal for the season was to maintain our position in the bavarian league after an outstanding season in the state league. We could not really estimate the playing strength of the other bavarian league teams before the season. Fortunately, we were able to keep all of our top players and, with mareike bleuel from TV/DJK hammelburg and my daughter ann-kathrin kuhhorn, we were able to strengthen the team with two regional league experienced players after her return from the USA. Another stroke of luck was the short-term appointment of the new coach heriberto quero, who – as a former outstanding bundesliga player – is the player-coach at VC eltmann and with his volleyball competence motivated every player to new high performances.

There are still eleven months to go until the spvgg bayreuth celebrates its 100th anniversary. In the konig-ludwig-saal of the sudpfanne there was on friday evening but a first attunement. Managing director wolfgang gruber and his team invited to the kick-off event of the anniversary year. With a prominent visitor.

Armin veh, who won the german championship with vfb stuttgart in 2007 and was active as a player for the altstadter for two years from 1987 to 1989, did the honors, as did martin driller. Driller laced up his boots for the yellow-and-blacks for half a year and was also a member of the st. Pauli, dortmund and nurnberg active. In his opening remarks, managing director gruber referred to past times such as those of driller and veh, but he was more interested in the future.

"We want to return to the professional fubball. This is a great project. When we are 100 years old, we want to attack that. We want to be one of the 50 best soccer clubs in germany. But that is difficult", according to gruber. In 2008, gruber, christian wedlich and other supporters took over the old town boat that was on the verge of capsizing. The spvgg had filed an application to open insolvency proceedings.

The rapid search for a new DFB president is causing concern in the executive suites of bundesliga clubs. After bayern boss karl-heinz rummenigge, borussia dortmund’s managing director hans-joachim watzke has also spoken out with a critical undertone about the vacant top personnel position.

"At the very least, the vita must bring more to the table than an active fubball career. It just takes much, much more. We’re talking about the world’s biggest sports association," said borussia dortmund’s managing director hans-joachim watzke in a survey conducted by the deutsche presse-agentur.

Following the resignation of reinhard grindel in april due to moral lapses, a six-member commission of the DFB and DFL headed by rainer koch and reinhard rauball is jointly looking for a new head of the association. The candidate is to be announced on 21. To be presented in august. The new president is to be elected to office at the DFB’s national convention on 27 june. September. But even shortly before the deadline, no favorite emerges at all after some prominent cancellations.

Alongside nico hulkenberg, daniel ricciardo wants to get closer to his goal of winning the formula 1 world championship title.

The 29-year-old australian has surprisingly decided to say goodbye to red bull and will drive for the german’s formula 1 team renault from 2019 onwards. This spectacular change was announced by both teams.

"This was probably the most difficult decision i have had to make in my career so far," said ricciardo. "I have been impressed by your progress in just two years. I know: whenever renault has been involved in this sport, they have always won."

Rosi mittermaier is one of the most famous german winter sportswomen in history. The upper bavarian conquered the eternal status of the “gold rosi” at the olympics in innsbruck in 1976. But she was only an active ski racer for a relatively short part of her life.

Before her 70th birthday. Birthday on 5. August mittermaier spoke to the german press agency about her winter games, the hustle and bustle at the time with bathtubs full of flowers and a “totally crazy” letter carrier, the unbroken enthusiasm for skiing and her social commitment to children, especially in this day and age.

Ms. Mittermaier, how did you survive the corona period??