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TV commercials anger OL viewers

Norwegians are not reacting well to all the commercials being inserted, for the first time ever, into this year's television coverage of the Winter...

IOC reprimands women’s cross-country ski team

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has reprimanded the Norwegian women's cross-country ski team for wearing black armbands during Saturday's 15-kilometer race. They were showing...

Oslo boosters campaign in Sochi

As Norwegian athletes started collecting medals at the Winter Olympics in Sochi over the weekend, a large delegation of politicians and bureaucrats from the...

More medals met with disappointment

Norwegian athletes collected three more medals at the Winter Olympics in Sochi on Sunday, but they were all in bronze and the day was...

Great first Olympic day for Norway

Norway's Olympic (OL) superstars defied age, a death in the family and extremely tough competition to claim four medals during the first day of...

Lots of injuries as ‘The Games’ begin

Norwegian ski jumper Anders Jacobsen was the latest in a string of Norwegian athletes to end up bruised and even bloody as they tested...

Changes due in Olympic coverage

For the first time ever, Norwegian sports fans will have to put up with television commercials when they settle down to watch their heroes...

Public still rejects an Oslo Olympics

Olympic fever among Norwegians in the run-up to the Sochi Winter Games opening this week has failed to drum up public support for an...

20 years since Lillehammer OL

The relatively quiet town of Lillehammer, which hosted the Olympics (OL) in 1994,  celebrated the 20th anniversary of its glory days over the weekend,...

Norwegian ‘no’ to OL guarantee

A vast majority of Norwegians don't think their state government should approve an unlimited financial guarantee sought by organizers keen on mounting the Winter...
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