What does SA stand for?

Through MTU, GE s LM2500 gas turbines are now operating in CODOG/CODAG configurations aboard Germany s F122 Bremen class, F123 Brandenburg class and F124 Sachsen class frigates.

Officially called the 'Rostturm', this 30m-high, 111 tonne Cor-ten steel tower, on the border of Brandenburg and Sachsen in east Germany, has already been affectionately dubbed the 'Rusty Nail'.

The German federation comprises 16 states: Baden-Wuerttemberg, Bayern (Bavaria), Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hessen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony), Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia), Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate), Saarland, Sachsen (Saxony), Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony-Anhalt), Schleswig-Holstein and Thueringen (Thuringia).

Saxony's Sachsen LB was unable to meet the vast debts of Ormond Quay, from Dublin, forcing other German monetary bodies to step in with a rescue package at the weekend.

Micky Fenton had a fruitless trip to Dresden yesterday, as his mount Quelle Amore finished sixth of eight behind Waleria in the Listed BMW Sachsen Preis.

820 Re-opened: November 2005 Home Team: Leipzig - Zentralstadion Capacity: 38,889 Opened: March 2004 Home Team: FC Sachsen Leipzig Munich - Allianz Arena Capacity: 59,416 Opened: May 2005 Home Team: Bayern Munich Nuremberg - Frankenstadion Capacity: 36,898 Re-opened: April 2005 Home Team: 1 FC Nurem- Stuttgart - Gottlieb-Daimler Stadion Capacity: 47,757 Re-opened: January 2006 Home Team:

Manning and Steel have left for Germany to continue their Olympic countdown in the five-day Sachsen Tour road race, while Dangerfield - who contests the road time trial in Athens - raced on the back of a hard training stint in Cornwall.

Further testing will be performed during the first-of-class firings from the Sachsen in the Summer of 2004.