Slovenian cyclist Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) bagged his first victory this season in stage 4 of the seven-stage Volta a Catalunya on 27 March to claim the general classification lead.
The four-time Vuelta a Espana winner, who also won the Tour of Catalonia in 2023, beat Spanish rider J

Slovenian cycling superstar Tadej Pogačar has ended weeks of speculation by announcing that he will compete for the first time in Paris-Roubaix, also known as Hell of the North, one of the toughest one-day races in the world. It is one of only two monuments that he has yet to win.
Pogačar's partici

Slovenia remain in the second tier of the UEFA Nations League after eliminating Slovakia with a hard-fought 1:0 extra time win in the return leg at home on 23 March, after playing out a goalless draw in Bratislava three days earlier. Adam Gnezda Čerin scored the decisive goal in the 95th minute wit

Ljubljana has inaugurated its first indoor Olympic-sized swimming pool, part of a large sports complex on the edge of the city's central park at the site of the iconic Ilirija swimming pool.
At the final price tag of €62.5 million, Ilirija is the biggest investment in the city sports infrastructure

Slovenia's premier cycling race is gearing up for an earlier start this year, with the 799-km challenge set to take place between 4 and 8 June in five stages. The nation's biggest cycling stars, Tadej Pogačar and Primož Roglič, will be absent but there will be five WorldTour teams.
The 31st Tour of

Slovenian ski jumping champion Nika Prevc is pushing the boundaries further, setting a new women's world record at 236 metres twice during a practice session for a Ski Jumping World Cup meet in Vikersund, Norway.
The Slovenian, who will turn 20 in a day, beat the previous record set on the same ski

Slovenian football champions Celje have made it to the quarter-finals of the UEFA Conference League in a historic achievement, ousting Lugano of Switzerland in a penalty shoot-out in a goals galore return leg of the last 16.
Celje came to Thun on 13 March with a slight advantage, having defeated th

Slovenian biathlete Jakov Fak has won the men's 15-km race in Slovenia's Pokljuka to earn his seventh individual career victory in the Biathlon World Cup almost exactly ten years after his previous win.
The 37-year-old Croatian-born biathlete was perfect in shooting and very fast in the running par

After winning two world titles and a mixed team silver at the World Championships, Slovenian ski jumping star Nika Prevc has secured her second consecutive Crystal Globe by winning the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup event in Oslo two weeks before the end of the season.
Prevc has earned 1,533 points this