Skiers mourn loss of former coach
April 15, 2012 ·
Cross-country skiers both in and outside of Norway were mourning the loss this weekend of Inge Bråten, the former coach of the men’s national ski team that performed so well at the Winter Olympics...
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High-profile coach may head home to Hamar
April 13, 2012 ·
Ståle Solbakken, Norway’s most high-profile professional football coach at present, said he was “forbannet” (furious) when he finally was fired by FC Köln on Thursday. His wife, however,...
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Little support for Olympics in Oslo
April 12, 2012 ·
Cheering crowds at last year’s world championships aside: Nearly 40 percent of Norwegians nationwide don’t want politicians to approve an effort by sports bureaucrats to host the Winter Olympics...
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Football star beaten up
March 26, 2012 ·
Alexander Aas, captain of the professional football club Strømsgodset in Drammen, was assaulted on a street in Skien late Saturday night and badly beaten. His injuries are considered so severe that he’ll...
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Jumping for joy over World Cup(s)
March 19, 2012 ·
Anders Bardal, who’s been ski jumping for the Norwegian national men’s team since 2001, finally won his first overall World Cup during the weekend after 11 years of trying. Norwegian cross-country...
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Birkebeiner skiers defy warm weather
March 16, 2012 ·
More than 16,000 skiers registered to take part in this weekend’s annual Birkebeinerrennet, a traditional ski race that goes over the mountains between the valleys of Østerdalen and Gudbrandsdalen....
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Northug out for the season
March 13, 2012 ·
UPDATED: Petter Northug didn’t take part in the Nordic skiing World Cup competition at Holmenkollen in Oslo last weekend, nor could he race in Wednesday’s sprint competition in Drammen. Now...
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Berger beat biathlon rivals and cancer
March 12, 2012 ·
Tora Berger could claim the title of World Champion over the weekend, when she won her first individual gold medal in the International Biathlon Union’s competition at Ruhpolding in Germany. She...
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High ticket prices kept crowds away
March 12, 2012 ·
Oslo’s annual Holmenkollen Sunday turned into a deep disappointment for its organizers, when less than half the estimated number of spectators turned up for the World Cup ski jumping competition....
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First career victory for Jansrud
March 5, 2012 ·
Norwegian downhill racer Kjetil Jansrud was literally eating cake on Sunday, after scoring his first career victory on the World Cup alpine circuit. The victory was especially sweet, since it occurred...
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Children won at Holmenkollen
March 5, 2012 ·
While the grown-ups were setting records at the annual Vasaloppet ski race in Sweden on Sunday, thousands of children were taking part in races of their own at Holmenkollen in Oslo. And all of them came...
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Skofterud savours Vasaloppet victory
March 5, 2012 ·
Cross-country skiing champion Vibeke Skofterud defied her coach’s wishes and became the first Norwegian woman to win the tough 90-kilometer-long Vasaloppet race in Sweden on Sunday. Things didn’t...
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Norwegians claimed biathlon gold after all
March 2, 2012 ·
Norway’s mixed relay team ended up winning the country’s 50th biathlon gold medal on Thursday, after a jury confirmed a target malfunction when biathlon veteran Ole Einar Bjørndalen was shooting.
The...
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Norway eases past Northern Ireland
March 1, 2012 ·
Norway’s national football team (landslaget) came away 3-0 winners from a comfortable but largely uneventful friendly international match against Northern Ireland in Belfast on Wednesday night. The...
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Norwegians didn’t fly far enough
February 27, 2012 ·
Norwegian athletes let down their local fans on home turf for the second week in a row on Sunday, when Norway’s ski jumping team failed to win a spot on the winners’ platform at the FIS Ski...
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