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Hectic week for Norway’s Kygo

Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll, better known as Kygo, was heading into an unforgettable weekend on top of an extremely hectic week. In the space of just...

Handball gold medal hopes dashed by a point

Norway's long-triumphant women's handball team has won three Olympic gold medals and most championship tournaments over the years, but now their hopes for another...

Runner regrets being a bully

Filip Ingebrigtsen, part of a sports-minded and highly competitive Norwegian family that's been getting lots of publicity lately, now regrets that he bullied his way into...

Handball team moves on to semi-finals

Norway's women's handball team rolled over Sweden in an important match at the Olympics in Rio on Tuesday, dominating play and winning by a...

Wrestler won Olympic bronze for his late mother

"Mama, we reached our goal," an emotional Stig-Andre Berge cried out after winning Norway's first Olympic medal in wrestling since 1992. Berge beat Rovshan...

Rowers win Norway’s first medal in Rio

Rowers Olaf Tufte and Kjetil Borch secured Norway its first medal in the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, a bronze in...

Brazilian spectators boo Norway’s ‘handball girls’

Norway's national women's handball team, affectionately known as the country's håndballjentene (handball girls), were smiling again after winning their last two matches at the Summer Olympics in Rio...

Olympics off to a poor start for Norway

Norwegian athletes did not get off to a good start when the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro finally got underway during the weekend. Norway,...

IOC: ‘Naive, stupid’ and ‘cowardly’

"We have been naive and stupid," declared Gerhard Heiberg, Norway's veteran member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), after last week's revelations of systematic,...

Biathlon world bows to Bjørndalen

Ole Einar Bjørndalen impressed and inspired not just his fans and fellow athletes at the Biathlon World Championships in Oslo over the weekend, but...
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