Olimpija of Ljubljana have won the national football championship five rounds before the end of the season after defeating arch-rival Maribor 2:0 on Sunday.

Rescuers are still trying to extract a caver who sustained severe head trauma at a depth of 100 metres in a newly discovered cave near Cerknica on Saturday. During Sunday mining teams expanded several narrow sections to get the stretcher down. The medical team will decide when the lifting will commence.

Slovenian cycling star Tadej Pogačar (UAE Emirates) continues to go from strength to strength. He won the Amstel Gold Race, the biggest one-day race in the Netherlands, on Sunday to bag the 11th win this season.

Slovenia achieved an unlikely comeback to defeat Romania on Sunday and reach the finals of the Billie Jean King Cup, where the twelve best women's tennis teams in the world will compete in November.