Munich

Michael Ballack arrives at Munich airport after flying from London Munich, Germany.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - These Olympics will be remembered for all the wrong reasons.

MUNICH - Willy Bogner has been named head of Munich's bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Director Marco Kreuzpaintner and director Roland Emmerich at the Oktoberfest 2009 at the Alm Rosl tent..

MUNICH - A new generation of Wagners is at the helm as the annual Bayreuth festival opens this weekend, with composer Richard Wagner's great-granddaughter saying that she hopes to help bring "opera to the people." Half-sisters Katharina Wagner, 31, and Eva Wagner-Pasquier, 64, were named as co-directors in September - becoming the first new management team in more than a half-century after their 89-year-old father, Wolfgang, agreed to end his long reign.