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Tadej Pogačar at the finish line of La Flèche Wallonne. Photo: X profile of UAE Team Emirates

Slovenia's cycling superstar Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates XRG) has won the one-day classic La Flèche Wallonne, crushing his rivals on the famous final Mur de Huy climb to claim his second victory at this prestigious race after 2023.


Racing in the event for the sixth time, the world's no. 1 c
Cortina d'Ampezzo will host the 2026 Winter Olympic Games together with Milan. Photo: Jernej Šmajdek/STA
Slovenia will have its national house at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in neighbouring Italy located in the centre of Cortina d'Ampezzo, one of the host cities along with Milan.
Slovenia House will be located in the popular Janbo pub in the vicinity of the official fan zone and national houses of o
Fiorentina forward Moise Kean battles it out with Celje defender Žan Karničnik in the return leg of the UEFA Conference League in Florence. Photo: ANSA/STA

Slovenian football champions Celje conceded to heavily favoured Italian side Fiorentina in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Conference League, but they left the pitch in high spirits as the first Slovenian club to make the quarter-finals of a major European competition.
The Slovenian side held Fiore
Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Dončić at the 18 March game against the San Antonio Spurs. Photo: Xinhua/STA
Slovenian player Luka Dončić is one of the undisputed stars of the NBA, and now he has become the first international player ever to top the most popular jerseys list.
In only two and a half months since his shock trade to the Los Angeles Lakers, his No. 77 Lakers jersey has become the NBA's most p
Ajša Sivka, a member of the Slovenian women's basketball team. Photo: Slovenian Basketball Federation
Ajša Sivka, a 19-year-old Slovenian basketball talent, has been selected by the Chicago Sky as the 10th overall pick of the first round of the 2025 draft of the WNBA, the world's strongest basketball league. She is the second Slovenian ever to be picked by a WNBA team.
Sivka, a forward, most recent
Tadej Pogačar at the Giro dell'Emilia. Photo: UAE Team Emiratex X profile
Slovenian cyclist Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) finished second in his debut at the Paris-Roubaix, edged only by Dutch rider Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), who won one of the toughest one-day races in the world for the third straight time on 13 April.
Pogačar rode in the front from
Luka Dončić pictured in a March game against the Denver Nuggets. Photo: Xinhua/STA
Luka Dončić put up one of the most historic performances a returning player has ever produced in his emotional return to Dallas where he began his NBA career. Having scored 45 points, the Slovenian led the Los Angeles Lakers to a major victory.
The Lakers won 112:97 on a night full of emotions to c
Slovenian cycling superstar Tadej Pogačar. Photo: dpa/STA
Slovenia's cycling megastar Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) added another title to his impressive palmares as he won the Tour of Flanders, one of the five Monuments, on 6 April in what was his second victory in the prestigious one-day race. Eighteen kilometres to go he rode clear to victory.
Slovenian pro cyclist Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe). Photo: Red Bull Content Pool
Slovenian cyclist Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) has won the Volta a Catalunya with a searing solo on the steepest part of the final stage on 30 March to strip Spain's Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) of his leader's jersey.
The 35-year-old launched his attack on the Montjuic with 20 kil
Slovenian Domen Prevc sets a new world record in ski flying and receives the small Crystal Globe for the best ski flyer this season. Photo: Anže Malovrh/STA
Slovenian ski jumper Domen Prevc capped a stellar season on 30 March by setting a new world record of 254.5 metres on the giant hill in Planica, to the delight of thousands of fans who flocked to the Slovenian cradle of ski jumping.
Prevc improved the previous record, set by Austria's Stefan Kraft
Domen Prevc jumping on the large hill in Planica on 28 March 2025. Photo: Anže Malovrh/STA
Slovenia's Domen Prevc won the first World Cup Ski Flying event on home ground in Planica on the final weekend of competition this season to clinch the small Crystal Globe in ski flying with two events to go.
His teammate Anže Lanišek was second and Ryoyu Kobayashi of Japan was third.
The two Slove
Slovenian cyclist Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe). Photo: Red Bull Content Pool
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