The famous Slovenian cyclist, Jure Robič died during a traffic collision at the age of 45 years old. He diet when he collided with a 55 year old diver while cycling at down hill Jesenice. He was currently on training in preparation for the competition during the Australia’s Crocodile Trophy mountain bike race. The investigation regarding the collision has been recently started.

Robič was a 5-time winner of the Race Across America Men’s solo wherein his first victory was during year 2004. He got the second place on 2009 because of a time penalty that he believes was unfairly given to him. He last won the race early part of this year.

Before Robič compete for the ultra-marathons, he was a member of the Slovenian national cycling team from 1988 to 1994. He set a two time world record for the 24 hour road race as well as won the Race Across Slovenia thrice. During his career as a cyclist, he has garnered approximately 100 victories as well as 150 podium finishes.

Slovenia’s former midfielder and Austria Vienna’s midfielder, Milenko Acimovic has retired from his soccer career after he got himself a persistent right knee injury.

The well-known Slovenian international went through a surgery last April yet he wasn’t able to full recover from the said operation. Acimovic stated that he still wanted to play but he had to take pain killers while he plays which he considers useless.

Milenko Acimovic, 33 years old had stints at Red Star Belgrade, Tottenham and Lille, played 74 matches and has scored 13 goals for the Slovenian national team from 1997 to 2008.

Last Friday, during the consolidation game for the World Championship, Spain won over Slovenia with 97-80 wherein Spain utilized the fourth quarter to win. Juan Carlos Navarro from Spain scored 26 points. The reign of Spain in this World Championship ended when they loss to Serbia last Wednesday during the quarterfinals. The Spaniards landed 5^th with another triumph.

Goran Dragic together with Jaka Lakovic scored 19 points for Slovenia, which will be playing for the seventh place. On the other hand, Rudy Fernandez and Fran Vazquez each scored 16 points for Spain.

The 31st meeting of hikers from three countries in Tromej namely Austria, Italy, and Slovenia happens every second Sunday of September. The said meeting is organized by the Tourist Board of Rateče, Arnoldstein and Tarvisio. This started since 1979 thus considered a long tradition which signifies the friendship as well as understanding among the stated countries regardless of the official country borders.

During the morning, thousands of visitors coming from Austria, Italy and Slovenia started from their own side and ascend to the top of Mt. Peč which is approximately 1509 meters from where they can witness magnificent scenery of the mountains as well as valleys surrounding the place. The participants spent the entire day together taking pleasure in the great food, drink and music.

Goran Dragic, from Phoenix Suns scored 18 points thus letting Slovenia get into the elimination round of the World Championship. Slovenia won with a 65-60 victory versus Iran last Thursday.

Slovenia (4-1) were winners of their last three games right after losing to the United States to get the no.2 seed from Group B. Slovenia will now be competing with Australia, the No. 3 seed from Group A this coming Sunday.

Miha Zupan from Slovenia scored 15 points, Sani Becirovic and Bostjan Nachbar each scored 10 points. The game ended with Hamed Haddadi of the Memphis Grizzlies scoring 15 points for Iran. On the other hand, Arsalan Kazemi scored 13 points as well as 14 rebounds.

The Slovenian team is currently looking forward to at least reaching the knockout stages for this year’s FIBA World Championship.

The Slovenian national team was able to join the semi-finals during the EuroBasket 2009 and must reach this year’s FIBA World Championship with enough confidence. Based from Slovenia’s performances, a lot of viewers believe they can reach the latter stages in Turkey though this would be surely a tough game.

The Slovenian roster is proud to present with 3 NBA players namely Primoz Brezec (Milwaukee Bucks), Goran Dragic (Phoenix Suns), as well as Beno Udrih (Sacramento Kings). The team is obviously supported by a set of equipped players who play basketball in different parts of Europe.

Slovenia is part of the Group B in the FIBA World Championship and is set to play against Brazil, Croatia, Iran, Tunisia plus the USA.

Robert Koren, Slovenia international midfielder has recently signed a 2 year contract for Hull City. This comes with an option for an additional year. West Brom released the 29-year-old midfielder during the summer. This was after which he helped the Baggies get in to the Premier League.

The Slovenian midfielder started his profession in his home country, Slovenia. He then joined West Brom after a spell in the Norwegian top flight. He headed Slovenian during this year’s World Cup and won his 50th cap in their midweek against Australia.

He will be making his debut in this Saturday’s trip to Swansea. He was as well handed the number 22 shirt.

Last 10^th of August, Ljubljana’s newest stadium as well as indoor arena officially opened with a friendly basketball game between Slovenia and Spain while the 16,000 stadium was planned to be opened on the following day with a football game between Slovenia and Australia. Ljubljana and Slovenia has finally established a stadium wherein top sports, concerts as well as events can take place.

One of Europe’s sports capitals is Ljubljana which opened the Stozice Arena, a new and modern stadium which is amongst the best and finest arenas within Europe. The said stadium has a capacity to hold 12,550 individuals.

A match between the Slovenian National Team and the Spanish National Team was the opening game for the arena’s official launching. Although the Slovenian team lost after overtime with a score of 72-79, it was still a successful friendly opening game. The important thing here is the successful official opening of new Stozice Arena.

The following day, a football game between Slovenia and Australia will be held at the new football stadium that can accommodate 16,000 viewers. This said football stadium is located in the same sports complex with their newest arena.

Slovenia will be competing with Australia during the International friendly football match this Wednesday. The match will be held at the Ullevaal Stadium at 20:15 British Summer Time.

This is regarded as the first international football match for both Slovenia as well as Australia after the World Cup 2010. Slovenia wasn’t able to join or qualify during the 16 round of the 2010 World Cup. Slovenia won over Algeria with 1-0, lost the game versus England with 0-1 and made a draw versus United States with 2-2 in 2010 World Cup group round.

Slovenia was ranked in the 19^th position garnering 917 points while Australia was ranked the 20^th with 911 points during the FIFA / Coca-Cola world rankings.

On the other hand, Australia did not qualify as well during the last 16 round in 2010 World Cup. The said country won over Serbia with 2-1, lost against Germany with 0-4, as well as made a draw against Ghana in with 1-1 during the 2010 World Cup group round.