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Nordic Combined Skiing Dropped from Olympic Program After Over 100 Years

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While the Olympics may be adding multiple new disciplines for its next Winter Games, it will go without a familiar, iconic competition for the first time in Winter Games’ history. After over 100 years on the Olympic program, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has decided to drop Nordic Combined from the Games. Nordic Combined, which features cross-country skiing and ski […]
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[OLYMPICS] Norway Sets Olympic Record with 18 Gold Medals—Even Though the Nation Has a Population of Less than 6 Million

The Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics supplied fans with some improbable storylines, from the American men’s hockey team breaking a 46-year gold medal drought to Italian skier Federica Brignone capturing 2 gold medals just 10 months after suffering multiple leg fractures. Related: [OLYMPICS] Team USA Defeats Canada 2-1 in Upset to Win Gold in Hockey For First Time Since 1980 […]
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Norwegian Biathlete Wins Bronze Medal and Then Admits to Cheating on His Girlfriend In Olympics Interview

Norwegian biathlete Sturla Holm Lægreid captured bronze in the men’s 20km individual race at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics on Tuesday—then stunned viewers by using his post-race interview to confess to cheating on his girlfriend. Speaking to NRK shortly after stepping off the podium, Lægreid pivoted from performance analysis to a deeply personal revelation. “Three months ago, I cheated […]
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Rjukan, Norway, Uses Massive Mirrors to Reflect Sunlight Onto the Town During Months of Winter Darkness

Rjukan is a town in Norway that experiences months of winter without direct sunlight due to its surrounding mountains blocking the sunlight. From September to March, the village is entirely in the shade, as the sun, covered by the 1,800-meter (5,905-feet) high peak Gaustatoppen, can’t penetrate the mountain. In 2013, this all changed when three huge solar-powered mirrors were installed on […]
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Missing Journalist Found Alive in Norwegian Fjords After 5 Days, Surviving On 2 Chocolate Bars

An American climate journalist from Stoughton, Wisconsin, who disappeared while hiking in a Norwegian national park has been found alive. Alec Luhn, 38, was reported missing on August 4, after not being heard from while on a solo hike in Folgefonna National Park. Luhn is an accomplished journalist who has worked for The Guardian, The New York Times, and The […]
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FIS and IOC Tighten Ski Jumping Rules Ahead of 2026 Olympics After Numerous Industry Scandals

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As the ski jumping world looks ahead to the 2026 Olympics in Milan-Cortina, Italy, the issues around cheating and unfair advantages resurface. Earlier this year at the 2025 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Trondheim, Norway, a serious cheating scandal occurred, involving the Norwegian ski jumping team and their ski suits. The controversy was centered around the intentional manipulation of […]
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Folgefonna Glacier Ski Resort in Norway Saved After Bankruptcy, Set to Reopen for Summer 2025

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One of Europe’s few glacier ski resorts is getting a second chance. After declaring bankruptcy in fall 2024, Folgefonna Glacier Ski Resort—known for offering skiing in the middle of summer and referred to by locals as only “Fonna”—is preparing to reopen this May under new ownership. A new company, Fonna Sport AS, has stepped in to take over the operation, […]
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Researchers Discover “Best-Preserved” Pair of 1,300-Year-Old Skis Ever Recovered on Norway Glacier

A pair of prehistoric skis, more than 1,300 years old, has been reunited on a remote Norwegian mountainside after one ski was discovered this year just five meters (15 feet) from where the first was found in 2016. The discovery was made at Digervarden in September 2021, a site in Innlandet County, central Norway, by glacial archaeologists working with the […]
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Man Buried 5-Feet Under Avalanche in Norway Contacts Police and Survives 7-Hours Before Successful Rescue

A tourist was rescued alive after being buried under an avalanche for seven hours in Norway’s Lyngen municipality. The Wednesday, March 19 incident amazed rescue teams and avalanche experts. The man, described as being in his forties or fifties, was found conscious under approximately 1.5 meters (5 feet) of snow shortly after midnight. He managed to survive in an air […]
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Nikolai Shirmer’s New Film Isn’t About Skiing—It’s About Why We Do Anything at All

In an era of hyper-produced ski films and carefully curated Instagram clips, Norwegian skier and filmmaker Nikolai Shirmer is carving out a different kind of legend. His lines are steep, exposed, and breathtaking, often skied fast and clean with zero hesitation. But what really sets him apart isn’t just the terrain he chooses—it’s how he chooses to ski it: no […]
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Extreme Heat in Svalbard Causes Unprecedented Melting of Arctic Ice Caps

This post first appeared on the NASA Earth Observatory website. The Svalbard archipelago’s ice caps suffered extreme episodes of melting in summer 2024, brought on by exceptionally high air temperatures. Related: Winter 2023/24 Was the Hottest Ever Recorded for the U.S. Situated between mainland Norway and the North Pole, Svalbard is one of the fastest-warming places on the planet. Over […]
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Incredible Gourmet Restaurant Pops Up in Norwegian Mountain Fjord Near Fonna Ski Resort

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In the middle of the Norwegian mountains, in a beautiful fjord near the famous summer ski resort Fonna, you will find a strange organic-shaped object floating like an outer-worldly giant ellipsoid. It is a floating art installation called ‘Salmon Eye’ in the Hardanger fjord in Western Norway and houses a gourmet restaurant. The only way to get to it is by electric boat from the town of […]
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Former Biathlon President Indicted On Corruption Charges

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Former President of the International Biathlon Union ‘IBU,’ Anders Besseberg, has been indicted by the Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (Økokrim) on corruption charges. The accused supposedly accepted bribes through cars, watches, prostitutes, and hunting trips. Besseberg was president of the IBU from 1992-2018 and allegedly accepted bribes from the Russian delegation between 2009-2018 […]
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Julia Schneemann |
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Recap: Women’s Alpine World Cup at Kvitfjell, Norway — US Ski Racer Mikaela Shiffrin Secures Overall Alpine World Cup Crystal Globe

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Mikaela Shiffrin has clinched the 22/23 overall Crystal Globe, the trophy awarded to the most successful skier across all alpine disciplines. Mikaela Shiffrin is currently at 1,828 points across all disciplines, while the next runner-up, Lara Gut-Behrami, is on a mere 1,007 points. There are only two events left, a Giant-Slalom and a Slalom event in Åre, Sweden on March, 11-12, […]
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Julia Schneemann |
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