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Tragedies, falls and an assassination attempt - despite severe setbacks, athletes and clubs have managed to get back on their feet. ISPO.com presents impressive comebacks in sports history.

Simone Biles, Dick Fosbury, Jan Böklov - these three names stand for Courage for innovation in sport. ISPO.com shows inventions and new approaches that have revolutionized an entire sport.

At the moment, athletes from all over the world would fight for olymic gold at the Paraolympics in Tokio. But as we know: Covid-19 made big events impossible this year. Johannes Floors is the fastest prosthesis sprinter ever over 100 metres. He spoke to ISPO.com about the changed perception of disabled sports.

In January, the death of Kobe Bryant and eight other people, including his daughter Gianna, in a helicopter crash shook the sports world. In August, the month of his birthday, the Los Angeles Lakers, Nike and Bryant's former hometown posthumously honor the "Black Mamba".

40 years ago - on 20 August 1980 - Reinhold Messner was the first person to climb Mount Everest solo and without additional oxygen. ISPO.com shows the best mountaineers of the world on the occasion of the anniversary.

Forbes has published a list of the top earning female athletes in 2020. The top 10 are dominated by no less than nine tennis players. For the first time in years, Serena Williams is not the top athlete.

In sport, often only the blink of an eye decides between victory and defeat. ISPO.com shows the tightest and most spectacular races from the world of sports in pictures.

As the former CEO of Patagonia, Kris Tompkins first shaped an outdoor brand and later, as an environmentalist, the Patagonia region. With ISPO.com she talks about environmental responsibility as a company and gives advice to founders.

Especially for athletes, showing attitude can be a disadvantage in the fight for victories, medals or new contracts. Nevertheless, several athletes stand up for values time and again. ISPO.com honours them in this gallery.

Frank Dassler died in Hamburg at the age of 64 years. The former president of the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) and the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) was the last representative of the Dassler family at Adidas until 2018.