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Dale Oen’s win honours Oslo victims

Alexander Dale Oen is one of many Norwegian athletes struggling to come to terms with last Friday's attacks in Oslo while involved in international...

Olympic efforts underway

Sports boosters and skiing bureaucrats seem to be moving forward with efforts to attract another Winter Olympics to Norway. A recent public opinion poll...

Gold fever rises to Olympic pitch

The flags had barely come down at Holmenkollen on Sunday before the calls started going out that Oslo should bid for a new Winter...

Olympic boss suffers heart attack

Gerhard Heiberg, the former Norwegian boss of the successful Olympics at Lillehammer who went on to join the International Olympic Committee (IOC), underwent surgery...

Make or break for women’s ski jumping

The performance of women ski jumpers at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo later this month is likely to determine whether they'll make...

IOC member urges new Olympics bid

Norway's Gerhard Heiberg, best known for running the successful 1994 Winter Olympics at Lillehammer and a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), now...

Skiing star snares sunglass sponsor

Norwegian Olympic skiing star Aksel Lund Svindal, triple medal winner at the Olympics in Vancouver last winter, is clearly profiting from his success on...

Svindal best-liked at the Olympics

Downhill racer Aksel Lund Svindal took three medals at the Olympics in Vancouver, one of them in gold, and clearly won a place in...

Northug ‘best skier in the world’

Norway's "bad boy" at the Winter Olympics ended two weeks of competition in a blaze of glory on Sunday. Petter Northug won the gold...

Curling clowns settle for silver

Norway's playful men's curling team lost its coveted gold medal to Canada on Saturday, but skip Thomas Ulsrud tried to keep smiling. He said all...

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