https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Norway in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Following a speeding offence which led to a house search that found cocaine, former Norwegian cross-country ski star Petter Northug, said on Friday he had a "serious problem" with alcohol and drugs. https://www.thelocal.no/20200822/norway-ski-star-admits-serious-problem-with-alcohol-and-drugs Sat, 22 Aug 2020 10:17:50 +0200 norway-ski-star-admits-serious-problem-with-alcohol-and-drugs Norway’s total dominance of this year’s Nordic skiing World Cup has been slammed as "financial doping” by sponsorship consultant Jacob Lund, one of the most powerful people in Norwegian sports, who warns it risks destroying interest in other countries. https://www.thelocal.no/20150223/norways-edge Mon, 23 Feb 2015 23:16:57 +0100 norways-edge Norwegian skiing legend Petter Northug has pulled off one of the great comebacks in sporting history, taking gold in the cross-country sprint at the Nordic skiing world championships on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.no/20150219/northug-takes-ski-gold-in Thu, 19 Feb 2015 22:51:00 +0100 northug-takes-ski-gold-in Norwegian skier Petter Northug has teamed up with a 17-year-old pop prodigy to record a 'world cup anthem' to help push him back to former glories at this year’s Nordic Skiing World Championships in Falun. https://www.thelocal.no/20150210/ski-legend-northug-fronts-new-world-cup-song Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:38:00 +0100 ski-legend-northug-fronts-new-world-cup-song Norwegian cross-country skiing star Petter Northug, a two-time Olympic champion in 2010, has admitted to lying to police when they first contacted him about crashing his car drunk on Sunday morning. https://www.thelocal.no/20140506/norway-ski-star-under-investigation-police Tue, 06 May 2014 10:40:00 +0200 norway-ski-star-under-investigation-police Double Olympic gold-winning skier Petter Northug has admitted to drunk driving after crashing his Audi A7 into a road barrier at some 80 km/hr in the early hours of Sunday morning. https://www.thelocal.no/20140505/norway-ski-star-totals-car-in-drink-driving-accident Mon, 05 May 2014 10:32:00 +0200 norway-ski-star-totals-car-in-drink-driving-accident Petter Northug was awarded a 'consolation medal' by Sweden's Expressen newspaper outside the Olympic village in Sochi on Sunday, as the tabloid continued its merciless mockery of the Norwegian cross-country ski star. https://www.thelocal.no/20140224/swedes-mock-northug-with-consolation-medal Mon, 24 Feb 2014 09:30:00 +0100 swedes-mock-northug-with-consolation-medal You'd think Norwegian cross-country skiing ace Petter Northug would have enough on his plate, given his thus-far medalless Olympics. But now US magazine Slate has made it worse, rating him "certainly a jerk" in its really very funny Olympic Jerkwatch column. https://www.thelocal.no/20140221/northug-rated-certainly-a-jerk-by-slate-magazine Fri, 21 Feb 2014 10:57:00 +0100 northug-rated-certainly-a-jerk-by-slate-magazine The Swedish hockey star Patrik Berglund has been filmed ridiculing Norwegian ski star Petter Northug as "a bloody mess", after his poor performance in the Olympic Games in Sochi. https://www.thelocal.no/20140218/swedish-hockey-star-calls Tue, 18 Feb 2014 10:56:00 +0100 swedish-hockey-star-calls If you thought the Winter Olympics are just about the Cold War-style ice hockey rivalry between North America and Russia then think again. The enmity between Nordic neighbours Sweden and Norway on the supposedly placid tracks of the cross country skiing can barely be matched for bad blood. https://www.thelocal.no/20140217/norway-troubles-fuel-bitter-rivalry-with-sweden Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:30:00 +0100 norway-troubles-fuel-bitter-rivalry-with-sweden Norway, the most successful country in Winter Olympics history, is now sitting a humiliating third in the medal count at Sochi 2014. The Local lists the top ten medal fails that made this happen. https://www.thelocal.no/20140217/gallery-norways-top-ten-sochi-medal-fails Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:33:00 +0100 gallery-norways-top-ten-sochi-medal-fails Norway's chief ski-wax technician on Monday accused an unnamed supplier of denying Norway's ski team the most technologically advanced new products in order to give its rivals an Olympic edge. https://www.thelocal.no/20140217/suppliers-denied-norway-high-tech-wax-to-help-rivals Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:43:00 +0100 suppliers-denied-norway-high-tech-wax-to-help-rivals Norwegian cross-country superstar has dropped out of the 15-kilometre race at Sochi, after he agreed with Trond Nystad, Norway's national coach, that he was not fit enough to compete. https://www.thelocal.no/20140212/fallen-star-northug-drops-out-of-15km-race Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:56:01 +0100 fallen-star-northug-drops-out-of-15km-race Norway's all-conquering nordic ski team on Tuesday overcame personal tragedy to seize both golds in crash-filled men's and women's sprints, taking their nation to over 100 medals in Olympic cross-country. https://www.thelocal.no/20140211/cross-country-golds-bring-norway-to-olympic-record Tue, 11 Feb 2014 23:19:00 +0100 cross-country-golds-bring-norway-to-olympic-record Sweden mocked Norwegian cross-country ski star Petter Northug on Sunday after he finished the Skiathlon in Sochi in a disastrous 17th place, with the Expressen newspaper mounting a "Where's Petter?" campaign https://www.thelocal.no/20140210/sweden-mocks-norway-after-northug-deveat Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:22:00 +0100 sweden-mocks-norway-after-northug-deveat Norway's cross-country skiing team has dropped one of its rising stars from the men's individual sprint to make way for its two most established names. https://www.thelocal.no/20140206/krogh-devastated-as-dropped-from-norway-ski-team Thu, 06 Feb 2014 12:46:00 +0100 krogh-devastated-as-dropped-from-norway-ski-team Norway is far and away the favourite to take the most gold medals at Sochi, with so many top athletes, there's even debate of dropping multiple gold-medallist Petter Northug from the team. Here are some to watch out for. https://www.thelocal.no/20140204/gallery-norways-ten-hottest-athletes-at-sochi-2014 Tue, 04 Feb 2014 11:48:00 +0100 gallery-norways-ten-hottest-athletes-at-sochi-2014 Norway is the clear favourite to scoop the most gold medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics at Sochi, with leading bookmakers Ladbrokes, Coral, and William Hill all giving the country's team even odds to come out tops. https://www.thelocal.no/20140203/norway-favourite-to-scoop-most-golds-at-sochi Mon, 03 Feb 2014 11:19:00 +0100 norway-favourite-to-scoop-most-golds-at-sochi When it comes to biathlon and cross country skiing at the Sochi Olympics, it looks like Norway can already start celebrating. https://www.thelocal.no/20140122/norway-sochi-favourite-for-biathlon-a Wed, 22 Jan 2014 11:51:00 +0100 norway-sochi-favourite-for-biathlon-a Norway swept the board at the Tour de Ski in the Italian Alps on Sunday, winning both the women's and the men's events. https://www.thelocal.no/20140106/norway-sweeps-board-at-tour-de-ski Mon, 06 Jan 2014 11:25:00 +0100 norway-sweeps-board-at-tour-de-ski