**Gozo’s Azure Window may be gone, but Malta is about to flex its own global muscle.** Former World’s Strongest Man Eddie Hall— the 2017 champion who once dead-lifted 500 kg and can flip a Mini Cooper like a pancake— has chosen the Maltese Islands as the backdrop for his newest sports-entertainment series, tentatively titled *Hall…
**Strongman Eddie Hall Brings Blockbuster Sports Entertainment Series to Malta, Putting Maltese Islands on Global Fitness Map** The Maltese islands are about to flex their muscles on the international stage as former World’s Strongest Man Eddie Hall announces his latest sports entertainment series will be filmed entirely in Malta. The blockbuster production, featuring the charismatic…
Malta-flagged bicycles will soon be gliding through Sicilian olive groves and coastal hamlets as 34-year-old Sliema sports therapist Daniel Camilleri embarks on a solitary 1,000-kilometre loop of the neighbouring island, every pedal stroke dedicated to the father who taught him to ride. “Dad was the one who removed my stabilisers in Dingli, ran behind me…
Alex Borg enters the record books: How a quiet Qormi boy rewrote Maltese sporting history By Luke Vella The bells of St George’s basilica were still echoing across Qormi’s narrow alleys when news broke that Alex Borg had done it. At 32, the soft-spoken cueist who grew up practising on a second-hand table wedged between…
Live: Alex Borg and Adrian Delia in nail-biting race By Hot Malta Newsroom | 21:47 CEST Floriana’s Independence Arena is crackling with the kind of electricity normally reserved for festa fireworks or a last-minute Eurovision vote. Tonight, however, the 2,500 seats are packed for a different kind of showdown: veteran pocket-billiards maestro Alex “The Sliema…
“One game outside Europe is one too many” – the phrase ricocheted around the MFA offices in Ta’ Qali last week when news broke that Malta’s senior national squad could be invited to a lucrative mini-tournament in Riyadh next winter. On paper, a Gulf stop-over sounds harmless: a fat appearance fee, winter sun, maybe a…
Ex-footballer cleared of San Ġwann betting shop robbery in dramatic courtroom verdict San Ġwann, Malta – A former Maltese Premier League striker walked free from the Valletta Courthouse this afternoon after a jury acquitted him of masterminding an armed hold-up at the “Golden Bet” outlet on Triq il-Bahar in San Ġwann last April. The verdict,…
Malta crowned Ultimate Pool world team shootout champions By Hot Malta Newsroom The clack of cue on resin echoed like church bells across Bugibba last night as Malta’s national pool squad lifted the Ultimate Pool World Team Shootout trophy in front of a roaring, flag-waving crowd at the Dolmen Hotel. In a nail-biting finale that…
