Olympics
Tide turns in favour of Oslo hosting Olympics
Oslo is now poised to vote in favour of hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics as a remorseless marketing campaign starts to bear fruit.
Oslo set to reject Winter Olympics
Oslo's voters will reject the chance of hosting the Winter Olympics in 2022 when they vote on the proposal on 9 September, according to a new poll for NRK.
Olympic bid divides Oslo residents
Almost half of Oslo residents are opposed to the city's plans to bid for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, a poll published in Norwegian daily Klassekampen on Thursday showed.
Oslo residents to vote on 2022 Olympic bid
Oslo inhabitants are to vote on whether they wish to bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics after the city council on Wednesday voted in favour of bidding.
Norway seeks to wrestle old Olympic gold medals from US
Norwegian sports historians have unearthed documentation seeming to prove that two American gold medals in wrestling at the 1904 Olympic Games should in fact have been attributed to Norway.
Norway handball gold eases Olympic dismay
A disappointing Olympics for Norway ended on a high note as the women’s handball team struck gold, following the shining example set earlier by retiring canoeist Eirik Verås Larsen.
Canoeist snags Norway's first Olympic gold
Eirik Verås Larsen paddled his way to the Norway's first gold medal of the 2012 London Olympics in the K1 1,0000 metre race on Wednesday.
Olympic ticket 'scandal' to Norway Supreme Court
A Norwegian ticket agent has appealed to the Supreme Court in a bid to reclaim 455 tickets to the London 2012 Olympics seized by police at Oslo's Gardermoen airport last month.
Norway claims first ever Olympic fencing medal
Norwegian Bartosz Piasecki claimed the country's first silver medal of the London 2012 games after he lost his fencing final to Ruben Limardo from Venezuela on Wednesday.
Olympic debutante to carry Norway flag
After much speculation, Norway's Olympic committee finally announced on Thursday that canoe sprinter Mira Verås Larsen will carry the Norwegian flag at the opening ceremony of the Summer Games in London on Friday.