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Berlin hosted the 1936 Olympics and was the host city for the 2006 FIFA world cup Final. The annual Berlin Marathon and the annual Golden League event ISTAF for athletics are also held here. The WTA Tour holds the Qatar Total German Open annually in the city. Founded in 1896, it is one of the oldest tennis tournaments for women. The FIVB World Tour has chosen an inner-city site near Alexanderplatz to present a beach volleyball Grand Slam every year.


Berlin Olympiastadion.

Berlin is home to Hertha BSC Berlin, a football team in the Bundesliga, and the basketball team ALBA Berlin (known as the "Berlin Albatrosses"), which won the national championships every year from 1997 to 2003. Berlin is also home to the American Football team Berlin Thunder of NFL Europe as well as the Eisbaren Berlin of the German Ice Hockey League, an ice hockey team which was founded in the East German era.