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Northug back to playing poker

Norway's cross country skiing star Petter Northug has swapped his ski poles for poker chips, and that's not good news for the national athletic...

More than 100,000 hailed skiing stars

Oslo police estimated that around 120,000 persons gathered in downtown Oslo Saturday night to watch their winter sports heroes get their medals, after at...

Combined team wins another bronze

Norway's men's combined team, which includes ski jumping and skiing, ended up with another bronze medal after Friday's relay and jumping off the large...

Ski jumpers try to keep smiling

Their coach had ordered them to smile before taking off from the huge new Holmenkollen Ski Jump in Oslo, but it ended up not...

Combined jumping and skiing yields another medal

CORRECTED: Norway was still leading the total medals count at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo on Monday, not least after the...

Jumpers put Norway in medals lead

Norway, the host country for this year's FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo, jumped back into the medals lead after the Norwegian men's...

Men also had to fly through the fog

If it's any consolation to Norway's frustrated female ski jumper Anette Sagen, who complained about foggy conditions at the world championships on Friday, her...

Ski jumping faded into the fog

Norway's pioneer female ski jumper Anette Sagen was furious after Friday's important ski jumping competition at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo....

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...

All eyes on Åsne for Ski-VM

With hundreds of thousands of spectators descending on Oslo over the next two weeks for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 (known as...

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