Norway’s national hockey team suffered their fourth loss in a row Sunday night, freezing chances to play in the quarter-finals of the world championships in Belarus. The team lost 1-0 against the Czech Republic, after also losing on Saturday against France. “We weren’t effective and I don’t know why we’re not scoring,” Norwegian player Jonas […]
Northug cuts ties with support team
May 16, 2014
Norwegian cross-country skiing champion Petter Northug has fired his entire coaching and management team at the behest of his major sponsor, supermarket and hardware chain Coop. Northug’s sponsorship deals and his entire skiing career had been thrown into doubt after he capped off a lacklustre season and disappointing Olympic campaign with a serious drunk driving […]
Olympic opposition hits new high
May 14, 2014
Only 35 percent of Norwegians agree with sports officials and some politicians that Norway should bid to host the Winter Olympics in 2022. Fully 60 percent disagree, according to the latest public opinion poll conducted by research firm Norstat for Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK). The opposition rose by four points, up from the 56 percent who […]
Organizers scramble to save Chess Olympiad
May 14, 2014
UPDATED: Norway can boast the Chess World Champion in the form of star player Magnus Carlsen, but can’t seem to come up with the money to fund the upcoming Chess Olympiad in the northern city of Tromsø. Organizers were left scrambling on Wednesday to save the event from financial ruin. Just a day after mounting […]
Hockey winning streak on ice
May 14, 2014
UPDATED: Norway’s new ice hockey heroes suffered what they’d hoped would be a temporary freeze in their early winning streak at the world championships. Their narrow loss to arch rival Sweden on Tuesday didn’t kill off hopes for a spot in the quarter-finals, but then they also ended up losing to Slovakia on Wednesday night. […]
Zuccarello ‘writing Norwegian sports history’
May 14, 2014
Norwegian hockey star Mats Zuccarello Aasen is “writing Norwegian sports history” this week, according to national ice hockey coach Roy Johansen, with his spectacular scoring for the New York Rangers in prestigious NHL Stanley Cup play. Johansen told state broadcaster NRK on Wednesday that Zuccarello Aasen, who goes simply by “Zuccarello” in the US, is […]
Norway mounts ‘best chess team ever’
May 13, 2014
With chess world champion Magnus Carlsen among its members, Norway’s chess federation thinks it has put together the “best chess team ever” to play in the upcoming 2014 Chess Olympiad. It starts in Tromsø on August 1. The team unveiled by the federation (Norges Sjakkforbund) on Monday includes Carlsen and grand masters Simen Agdestein, Jon […]
No Olympic decisions at Høyre’s meeting
May 12, 2014
Leaders of Norway’s Conservative Party (Høyre) didn’t want to take up the hotly debated issue of whether the country should host the 2022 Winter Olympics at their national meeting over the weekend. Lots of debate reportedly went on in the corridors, though. The Conservatives’ government partner, the Progress Party (Frp), voted the weekend before against […]
Norway’s hockey team scores again
May 11, 2014
The ice hockey world championships are off to a good start for Norway’s national team. After winning Saturday’s opening match in Minsk in Belarus, the Norwegians won again on Sunday afternoon, even though they’re lacking some of their top players. “We have to be desperate to manage this,” Norway’s coach, Roy Johansen, told newspaper Aftenposten […]
Record turnout for Holmenkollen relay
May 9, 2014
Nearly 50,000 runners from all over Norway were heading into Oslo during the weekend to compete in an annual relay race from downtown, up to the Holmenkollen Ski Jump and back again. A total of 3,080 teams had registered for the relay race by Friday, with 15 runners on each. Never before have so many […]
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