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Tadej Pogačar in the pink jersey celebrates with champagne at the end of Stage 5 of the Giro d'Italia. Photo: ANSA/STA
Tadej Pogačar powered to yet another stage win at the Giro d'Italia, humbling the competition in the individual time trial to further extend his lead seven days into the three-week race.
Storming up the final climb of the 40.6km course from Foligno to Perugia, the Slovenian UAE Emirates rider beat
Briton Tom Livingstone (left) and Slovenian Gašper Pintar pictured during their ascent of a new route up the South Face of Mount Dickey, Alaska. Photo: Gašper Pintar/Alpine Association of Slovenia
Slovenian Gašper Pintar and Tom Livingstone from the UK have made the first ascent of a new mixed climb up the South Face of Mount Dickey (2,909m) in the Ruth Gorge, Alaska which they named The Great Wall.
The pair climbed what is one of the highest rock and combined walls in the world during an e
Tadej Pogačar pictured at the opening of the Giro d'Italia in Turin. Photo: ANSA/STA
Slovenia's cycling star Tadej Pogačar won Stage 2 of the Giro d'Italia to claim the leader's pink jersey despite suffering a puncture before heading into the final climb to the Sanctuary of Oropa in Italy's Piedmont region.
In his debut appearance in the Italian Grand Tour, the Slovenian UAE Team
Slovenia play Hungary at the Division 1 World Championship in 2022. Photo: Anže Malovrh/STA
The Slovenian men's ice hockey team has qualified for the 2025 IIHF World Championship, the elite level of international ice hockey competition, by securing a top-two finish at the ongoing World Championship Division I in Bolzano, Italy.
Slovenia defeated Japan 3:1 on 3 May and Hungary beat Italy 3
The opening of the trotting competition season in Ljutomer. Photo: Katja Kodba/STA
The small region of Prlekija in Slovenia's northeast, tucked away along the right bank of the River Mura, is an often overlooked part of the country, even though most people are quite familiar with many of its delicious products: from excellent wines to the sweet prleška gibanica layer cake or the
Aljoša Matko, the top scorer for Celje, at the European U-21 championship in 2021. Photo: Anže Malovrh/STA
Celje have won their second ever championship title in the Slovenian premiere football league a full three rounds before the end of competition.
They have been the dominant side since the early stages of the season and sealed the deal by defeating reigning champions Olimpija 1:0 on 28 April.
"Congr
Sport climber Janja Garnbret holds a picture book inspired by her life story. Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA
Janja Garnbret, the world's best sport climber, who will be defending her Olympic gold in Paris this year, has become the hero of a picture book called Janja and the Magic Flower.
The book, released in Slovenian and English, was launched in Ljubljana on World Book Day, 23 April. It is the latest in
Tadej Pogačar pictured at the 2023 Tour de France. Photo: dpa/STA
Slovenian rider Tadej Pogačar has proved unbeatable yet again, flying solo to win the Liège-Bastogne-Liege, the oldest of the five cycling Monuments, for his 70th career win a year after fracturing his wrist at the same race.
Leaving the peloton and his UAE Team Emirates teammates behind, Pogačar a
The Ferrari horse logo. Photo: Aljoša Rehar/STA
The Slovenian exhaust system manufacturer Akrapovič has signed a multi-year agreement with the Italian sports car manufacturer Ferrari that will see Akrapovič become a technical partner for Ferrari Hypercar, which competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC).
The Slovenian company said th
Lendava Mayor Janez Magyar, Slovenian Olympic Committee president Franjo Bobinac and Olympian Jani Klemenčič pictured with children as the Slovenian torch starts its journey around the country. Photo: Vida Toš/STA
A day after the flame for the 2024 Paris Olympics was lit in Olympia, Slovenians have sent their own torch to tour the country with the nation's first Olympic medallist making the first leg.
The Slovenian torch started its journey in Lendava, northeast, near the tri-border with Hungary and Croatia
The Slovenian women's handball team. Photo: Handball Association of Slovenia
The Slovenian women's handball team has qualified for the Summer Olympic Games in Paris in a historic first for the country's women athletes in team sports.
Slovenia secured the ticket by defeating Montenegro 30:26 in the last match of a qualifying tournament in Germany's Neu-Ulm on 14 April.
At th
Slovenian sport climber Janja Garnbret. Photo: Grega Valenčič
Slovenian sport climbing star Janja Garnbret won the first IFSC World Cup event of the new season in Keqiao, China, confirming the status of the best woman climber ahead of the Paris Summer Olympics.
Garnbret entered the finals in the bouldering event as the leader both in the qualifiers and semi-f