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 Plans to bring the Winter Olympics to Norway’s Telemark county were revealed in full at an official announcement on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.no/20171101/norways-telemark-winter-olympics-hopefuls-reveal-bid Wed, 01 Nov 2017 10:22:56 +0100 norways-telemark-winter-olympics-hopefuls-reveal-bid Norway’s Telemark County wants to host the Winter Olympics in 2026. https://www.thelocal.no/20171031/norway-wants-to-host-2026-winter-olympics Tue, 31 Oct 2017 09:54:13 +0100 norway-wants-to-host-2026-winter-olympics Norwegian politicians have distanced themselves from a potential new Winter Olympic bid after 1994 host Lillehammer raised the issue this week. https://www.thelocal.no/20170406/norway-sceptical-about-new-olympic-bid Thu, 06 Apr 2017 12:45:20 +0200 norway-sceptical-about-new-olympic-bid Changes by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) could result in Norway co-hosting the Olympics with its neighbours. https://www.thelocal.no/20141209/could-norway-co-host-the-summer-olympics Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:35:00 +0100 could-norway-co-host-the-summer-olympics Norway's chances of hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics increased after the Ukrainian city of Lviv pulled out as one of the contenders. https://www.thelocal.no/20140630/oslos-bid-for-winter-olymics-gets-boost Mon, 30 Jun 2014 14:07:00 +0200 oslos-bid-for-winter-olymics-gets-boost Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), was in Oslo on Monday drumming up support for an Oslo bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. https://www.thelocal.no/20140519/olympics-chief-launches-charm-offensive Tue, 20 May 2014 00:02:30 +0200 olympics-chief-launches-charm-offensive Oslo's bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics was in the balance on Sunday as a governing coalition party announced it would not support state funding for the event. https://www.thelocal.no/20140505/progress-party-votes-to-oppose-olympics Mon, 05 May 2014 10:05:48 +0200 progress-party-votes-to-oppose-olympics Grassroots activists in Norway's Progress Party plan to force party leaders to campaign against Oslo hosting the Winter Olympics in 2022 at the annual convention on the weekend. https://www.thelocal.no/20140430/progress-grassroots-could-upset Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:53:00 +0200 progress-grassroots-could-upset The International Olympic Committee is demanding that Oslo provide its officials with an entire VIP floor of a luxury hotel, with their own dedicated medical staff available 24/7, as part of the price of hosting the Winter Olympics in 2022. https://www.thelocal.no/20140227/olympics-bosses-demands-own-vip-floor-in-oslo Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:21:00 +0100 olympics-bosses-demands-own-vip-floor-in-oslo Norwegian figure skater Anne Line Gjersem was following in the footsteps of illustrious countrywoman Sonja Henie when she took to the ice in Sochi on Wednesday night. https://www.thelocal.no/20140220/olympics-norways-gjersem-follows-in-henie-footsteps Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:36:00 +0100 olympics-norways-gjersem-follows-in-henie-footsteps A clear majority of Norwegians do not want Oslo to host the Winter Olympics in 2022, a new poll by the market research group InFact has revealed, with as many as 81.7 percent of those in northern Norway rejecting the games. https://www.thelocal.no/20140212/most-norwegians-dont-want-olympics-in-2022 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:48:00 +0100 most-norwegians-dont-want-olympics-in-2022 The organizers of Norway's bid to hold the 2022 Winter Olympics said Oslo's modestly-priced proposal was the safe choice after a succession of "experiments" in Olympic host cities. https://www.thelocal.no/20140210/olsos-low-price-olympic-bid-is-the-safe-option Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:59:00 +0100 olsos-low-price-olympic-bid-is-the-safe-option Norwegian alpine skiing star Aksel Lund Svindal on Sunday failed to win Norway's first Olympic downhill title, despite the poor performance of his main competitor, Bode Miller. https://www.thelocal.no/20140210/svindal-falls-to-norwegian-downhill-curse Mon, 10 Feb 2014 08:51:00 +0100 svindal-falls-to-norwegian-downhill-curse Norwegian superstar Marit Bjørgen on Saturday won her fourth Olympic title and became the most successful female Norwegian Olympian in history, after taking the first cross-country skiing gold of the Sochi Games in the women's skiathlon. https://www.thelocal.no/20140208/norways-bjrgen-makes-history-with-fourth-gold Sat, 08 Feb 2014 16:22:35 +0100 norways-bjrgen-makes-history-with-fourth-gold The mayor of Oslo has been criticised after he ruled that the city's 55,000 employees could not watch the Winter Olympics during working hours. https://www.thelocal.no/20140205/oslo-mayor-slammed-for-olympics Wed, 05 Feb 2014 17:31:07 +0100 oslo-mayor-slammed-for-olympics 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 Norwegian snowboarder Silje Norendal has been taken ill in Sochi, Russia, putting the participation of yet another of the country's gold-medal hopefuls in question. https://www.thelocal.no/20140204/norway-snowboard-ace-taken-ill-in-sochi Tue, 04 Feb 2014 11:03:00 +0100 norway-snowboard-ace-taken-ill-in-sochi Norwegian slopestyle snowboarder Torstein Horgmo, one of the Olympic Games gold medal favourites, was hospitalised Monday after a spectacular crash in training on a course widely condemned as too dangerous. https://www.thelocal.no/20140203/sochi-snowboard-favourite-inured-on Mon, 03 Feb 2014 15:40:00 +0100 sochi-snowboard-favourite-inured-on 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 Policing the Winter Olympics in 2022 would cost Oslo 1.8bn kroner ($296m), the city's police have estimated, nearly four times as much as it cost to host the event in Lillehammer back in 1994. https://www.thelocal.no/20131125/policing-oslo-olympics-would-cost-18bn-kroner Mon, 25 Nov 2013 09:24:00 +0100 policing-oslo-olympics-would-cost-18bn-kroner