Friday, March 26, 2010

Ullrich celebrates double victory - now on four wheels



Nurburgring - Jan Ullrich is switched - from two to four wheels. And successfully.
In the second round of the Endurance Championship at the Nurburgring Nordschleife, the former Tour winner in the class over 2500 cc diesel engine was equivalent to a double victory.
Double victory - how does it matter? "Ulle was" both the winning car with Henning Meyersrenken and Thomas Haider (both Cologne) and the second placed team with the former cross-country champion Mike Kluge (Denzlingen) and Harald Becker (Emmel things) with the wheel.
     "I'm safer with every lap and I'm super happy," said Ullrich, who rode in preparation for his scheduled start in the 24-hour race at the Nurburgring only his second race: "I overtake more and more other participants. In the rain, I really only had trouble keeping the tires up to temperature. " Responded to his double victory, he said: "Yeah, I suddenly saw before me and then itself obsolete."

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Goat-Echo is Germany's best club magazine




Cologne - cheer at the office of the goat-echoes - it is Germany's best club magazine. The soccer magazine "11 FRIENDS" has chosen.
The criteria of the "11 friends" tests: The relationship between content and advertising, the involvement of the fans, the quality of the texts and the layout. Almost everywhere, the magazine was the 1st FC Cologne sharp.
The squares followed by a large margin of Bochum "My FC" and the "Bavaria magazine of the Munich master record. The red lantern can hang Dortmund Borussia Aktuell "in the editor: last place.
FC spokesman Lymberopoulus rejoiced like Bolle, "As we learned from our victory in the 11 friends test, a loud cheer went through the department. We are all very proud of the fact that new content and optical alignment of our magazine is not only our readers like, but also the critical editors of 11 Freunde. "
Now only need to join the kicker of the FC ...

Sunday, March 14, 2010

He can not let it - now he's back



Cologne - He could not keep away from cocaine. Since Thursday afternoon drug king Heinz Chapius (55) is sitting in jail. In the kölsche juvenile had been released on parole until March 2006.
"Chappi" last lived with his wife in a simple Nippesser apartment, had originally scrapped in a firm bulbs. But a life of poverty, he would not.
Chappi let revive old contacts. A mistake. For his famous name in drug investigators arrived faster than he had imagined. A special command was arresting him.
And with his three accomplices (25/26/30) were arrested. With Chappi they should have built up a drug trade. Weapons and ammunition were also found, as officials rushed yesterday, a total of twelve apartments in the Cologne / Bonn area and searched. An official: "They are accused of trafficking in cocaine and amphetamine in the kilo range."
Early 90s was the number 1 in Cologne, organized drug trafficking. Send millions from his villa in the Belgian Lanaken he steered his drug empire.
Chappi had direct contacts with the powerful drug lords of Colombia's drug cartel in Medellin, then let the fabric of Poland and to bring Switzerland into Germany. Overall, several hundred pounds to have discontinued Chappi.
He modestly admitted at his trial 85 kilograms. On 9 August 1996 Heinz Chapius was sentenced to Höchstrafe: 15 years.
The existing drugs as a highly intelligent king growled seven years in maximum security unit to protect it from possible attacks. For Chappi had sung in the process.
Now Chappi will probably have to spend the rest of his life in prison. He threatens a sentence, followed by preventive detention. The end of the drug lord.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Joiner took senior from burning apartment



Monchengladbach - by a hair would be the home of Lisa Becker became the death trap: Your TV had exploded and burst into flames while he slept the senior citizen. But thanks to their neighbors, the 81-year-old observant Mönchengladbacherin escaped with a fright. Two courageous carpenter rescued them from smoke and fire.
Friday morning, 7.15 Clock: The students of the carpentry Klomp check the oil level of the company car when she noticed flames on the first floor of an adjacent apartment building.
"We knew that where an elderly woman lives alone," says Jens Leopold (22), working for five years in the making. With several colleagues, he hurried to the house. "We've rung the bell tower," says Leopold. "When no one answered, we rammed the door open." In the pitch-dark hallway to the men senior Lisa Becker stumbled forward in her nightgown. She had innocently slept. That there is a level higher on fire, she initially did not realize - and closes the door on the rescuers.
"I'm clean again," then decide André Züwerink. "Before, I was at the volunteer fire department. I knew that we not collect the woman get out quickly, choking her. " Back in the house Züwerink is the senior citizen in the room with the burning television. "I wanted to remove the apparatus with a wet towel," said Lisa Beckers. "That was my hair had been jet black with the smoke, I did not notice." Although the senior defends wearing Züwerink and colleague, Leopold joined her outside.
Lisa Becker's anger subsided quickly: "Without the carpenter, I might not be awake," she says. "I am very grateful to them."