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Two Olympic skiers test positive

Two of Norway's skiers in the national team bound for the Olympics in Beijing have wound up stuck in isolation at their training camp's...

Royal family drops Olympics in Beijing

None of the members of Norway's royal family will be traveling to China next month to attend the Winter Olympics, confirmed palace officials on...

Minister drops Olympics in Beijing

Norway's government minister in charge of sports and culture has decided not to travel to the Winter Olympics in Beijing, in a move widely...

Campaign brewing for new Olympics

Norwegian sports bureaucrats, some top politicians and skier Therese Johaug are among those talking about the possibility of arranging another Winter Olympics in Norway,...

Ingebrigtsen cashing in

Jakob Ingebrigtsen, one of Norway's young track and field stars, is already reaping the rewards of his success this summer, not least his gold...

Olympic medalists win heroes welcome

Water canons sprayed over the private jet that brought Olympic heroes Karsten Warholm, Eivind Henriksen and their medals back to Norway on Friday, after...

Norway won’t send athletes to Olympics in July

The president of Norway's national athletics foundation NIF followed Canada on Monday in declaring that she doesn't want to send any Norwegian athletes to...

Olympic torch re-lit, but not OL spirits

It's been 25 years since Norway hosted what even the International Olympic Committee (IOC) boss at the time famously called "the best Olympic Winter...

Biathlon legend reluctantly retires

After standing on the winners' platform 256 times in the course of his 24-year-long sports career, Ole Einar Bjørndalen has reluctantly decided to retire...

‘Kollen’ shame hurts Olympic hopes

Norway's biggest annual winter sports weekend ended with Norwegians winning most everything, but leaving them stunned and shamed by drunk- and disorderly conduct among...
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