Tag: Sochi 2014
Norwegian skiers mine more gold
Norway pulled in two more gold medals and a silver Tuesday afternoon as both the Norwegian men and women cross-country skiers swept over the...
Berger also pulls in Olympic silver
Norway stayed firmly in the medals lead at the Winter Olympics in Sochi on Tuesday, after biathlon skier Tora Berger also won silver in...
Women ski jumpers were ready to fly
UPDATED: Pioneering Norwegian ski jumper Anette Sagen fought for years to get the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to finally allow herself and other women...
Psychologist helps men’s curling team
UPDATED: Norway's fancily clad men's curling team, off to a brilliant start at the Olympics in Sochi after two victories in as many days,...
IOC’s Heiberg: ‘Norway is arrogant’
Norway's own Norwegian member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Gerhard Heiberg, was stirring more controversy at home on Monday when he called Norwegian...
Bjørgen ad may cost her medal
Norway's professional ski queen Marit Bjørgen and many of her fellow athletes earn money by selling themselves to commercial sponsors, but now one of...
TV commercials anger OL viewers
Norwegians are not reacting well to all the commercials being inserted, for the first time ever, into this year's television coverage of the Winter...
IOC reprimands women’s cross-country ski team
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has reprimanded the Norwegian women's cross-country ski team for wearing black armbands during Saturday's 15-kilometer race. They were showing...
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...
More medals met with disappointment
Norwegian athletes collected three more medals at the Winter Olympics in Sochi on Sunday, but they were all in bronze and the day was...
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