Tag: Oslo2022
IOC President’s armband lament
The head of the International Olympic Committee, German Thomas Bach, paid a visit to the Norwegian women's cross country ski team during a gym...
Olympic opposition hits new high
Only 35 percent of Norwegians agree with sports officials and some politicians that Norway should bid to host the Winter Olympics in 2022. Fully...
Sports lobby won’t give up Olympics
The majority of Norwegians who oppose an Olympics in Oslo could heave a collective sigh of relief on Sunday that they may not need...
Frp blows out Olympic flame
Norway's Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet, Frp) seems to have halted further progress on the City of Oslo's campaign to host a Winter Olympics in 2022. A...
Olympic effort keeps snowballing
Top city politicians in Oslo went ahead and sent an application on Friday to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to host the Winter Olympics...
Government MPs make OL demands
Members of Parliament from both parties in government have sent a list of seven demands that they think organizers of a Winter Olympics (OL)...
IOC’s demands met with ridicule
"High and mighty" demands made by members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) were setting off ridicule and head-shaking among members of the Norwegian...
‘Sports Illustrated’ sets off OL storm
Norwegians vehemently opposed to the idea of hosting another Winter Olympics in 2022 have been sounding off this weekend in an unusual forum and...
‘Secret’ IOC demands stir suspicion
Norway's national athletics federation (Norges Idrettsforbund, NIF) has received a 7,000-page list from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), setting out the requirements Oslo would...
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...
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