#norwegian ice hockey federation

[dandelionsprout42]

Norway need to stop being cowards about Winter Olympics hosting

I've thought about this for a couple or 3 years now, and I've concluded that alleged economics graduates need to stop blatantly lying about the hosting costs, that the Norwegian Sports Federation need to stop giving up after mere weeks, and that Norway's rather aggressive de-centralisation movements need to stop being aggressive.

The cost estimates have been somewhere in the area of 2.3bill€, which is flatout wrong. Had I been prime minister, I'd have done it on 300mill€, simply because we already have all of the needed facilities. No need to build anything new at all. Even at the very most, we'd only need to make a Rena-Elverum trail path and a centre dugout in Friends Arena.

Snow events:

Ceremonies: Ullevaal Stadion Oslo

Cross-country, biathlon, Nordic Combined, longhill ski jumping, quarterpipe snowboard: Holmenkollen Oslo

Smallhill ski jumping: Lysgård Oslo or Lillehammer

Snowboard, freestyle skiing: The various X Games facilities in Oslo and Trysil

Downhill, Super-G, Alpine Combination: Narvik

Slalom, Great Slalom, team events: Trysil

Ski mountaineering: Geilo, maybe?

Ice events:

Ice hockey Final 4, figure skating, short-track speed skating: Friends Arena Sweden

Ice hockey preliminaries: Håkons Hall Hamar, Scandinavium Sweden, Stavanger Arena

Speed skating: Vikingskipet Hamar

Curling: Trondheim Spektrum

Bobsleigh, luge, skeleton: Lillehammer

Brand new sports because we have that many facilities:

Telemark: Trysil

Bandy: Telenor Arena Oslo

Snowsled racing: Tromsø to Vadsø

Megahill ski jumping, speed-skiing: Vikersund

Crushed Ice: Møllenberg Trondheim

Ski orienteering: Beitostølen

95~100km long-distance skiing: An extended Birkebeineren route with start in Elverum.

960 Chess where matches must be played to checkmate: Oslo Spektrum and/or Jordal Arena Oslo

Should it be necessary to win the vote:

Ice hockey preliminaries, mixed teams curling: Royal Arena Denmark

Preliminaries in 960 Chess where matches must be played to checkmate: Sparkassen-Arena Germany

Long-distance (Maybe 30km?) mass-start speed skating: Heerenveen Netherlands (Not on the above map).

[klingb3rg]

norskishockey The IIHF today decided to cancel the men’s A-level World Championship, which was to be held in Switzerland on 8-24. May. "This is a harsh reality to face for the international ice hockey family, but one that we must accept,” said IIHF President René Fasel.

[findiary]

January 4, 1987

My ice hockey team is the ice hockey´s world junior champions! But only because the Soviet team and Canada started to fight with each other.

The brawl continued at least 20 minutes, nobody was able make them stop, not even Norway.

So, they both were disqualified and I was declared as the winner because my team had won the bronze medal already earlier! I´m not sure do I like to win like this.

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More info:

- The 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships ‘was the 11th edition of the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships and was held in Piešťany, Trenčín, Nitra, and Topoľčany, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). Finland captured its first World Junior gold medal. Czechoslovakia took silver, and Sweden the bronze. The tournament is most remembered, however, for how Sweden ended up with the bronze (and Canada ended up with no medal).

The officials, unable to break up the brawl, walked off the ice and tournament officials eventually tried shutting off the arena lights, but the brawl lasted for 20 minutes before the International Ice Hockey Federation declared the contest null and void. An emergency meeting was held following the brawl that ended with the delegates voting 7-1 to eject both teams from the tournament, with the sole dissenter being Canadian Dennis McDonald. The Canadian team, disgusted at what they perceived to be a conspiracy against them, chose to leave rather than stay for the end-of-tournament dinner, from which the Soviet team were banned.

- Not even Norway – Why I remember that at least some of the officials that tried to stop the brawl were Norwegians? Not sure, but Norway is there now.

Norwegians aren’t even that interested in hockey, but It´s a really popular sport in Finland. Other hockey countries where it is big or at least quite big are at least Canada, Russia, Belarus, Sweden, Czechia, Slovakia, Latvia and USA.

[useless-scandinaviafacts]

idk if you take requests but could you make like a canada themed vocabulary list in norwegian?

Oh, sure! I’m not really certain which words you want me to include, so I’m just going with basics here.

Canada - CanadaCanadian - Canadisk/kanadiskNorth America - Nord-AmerikaEnglish - EngelskFrench - FranskOfficial languages - Offisielle språkProvince - Provins (m)Territory - Territorium (n)Federation - Føderasjon (m)Constitutional monarchy - Konstitusjonelt monarki (n)Commonwealth of Nations - Samvelder av nasjonerThe Atlantic Ocean - AtlanterhavetThe Pacific Ocean - StillehavetPrime Minister Trudeau  - Statsminister TrudeauQueen Elizabeth (the second) - Dronning Elizabeth (den andre)Indigenous population - Urbefolkning (m)Ice hockey - IshockeyPolite - Høflig (sing.)/høflige (pl.)Maple leaf - Lønneblad (n)Syrup - SirupBeaver - Bever (m)I’m sorry - UnnskyldPlease - Vær så snillEh - Høh

[wionews]

Opinion: Norway outplays US, Germany at Winter Olympics, here is why

The 23rd edition of Winter Olympics is in its final phase. Norway, the all-time favourites, is leading the medal tally at Pyeongchang.  Norway is also the most successful nation in the history of winter sports till now. The ongoing Olympics is one of the most controversial Olympics ever, from doping scandal to nation's rivalry, everything was encompassed. Russia, a very strong competitor was banned by IOC from participating. All thanks to Grigory Rodchenkov, the whistleblower, who revealed the conspiracy of "state-sponsored" doping in Russia during 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

What is IOC? International Olympic Committee is international, non-governmental, non-profit organisation which is the authority responsible for the Olympic Games

What is state-sponsored doping? State-sponsored doping when the whole scandal is planned and operated under the supervision of the government

Initially barred from 2018 Olympics but laterwards some 'clean' athletes were allowed to take part as a neutral, not representing Russia but participation under the Olympic flag as Olympic athletes from Russia (OAR).

Due to all the allegations and continuous scrutiny, Russia's performance got hampered. Apart from Russia, even the USA and Germany is not performing up to the mark. Both of the countries failed to give tough competition to Norway. Norway entered at the Pyeongchang Olympics with 109 athletes and the team USA arrived with 242 athletes but Norway earned almost twice the number of medals and also tied with Germany for the most gold medals.

Norway (Others)

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Sometimes, it is surprising that, how a country with a population of five million, is climbing past nations which has a comparatively high population, sound infrastructure and facilities. It is due to compilation of multiple reasons, first, in Norway sports facilities have formed part of Norwegian public health policies to increase physical activity among children and teenagers. In recent years, large sums of public money were spent on promoting sports facilities. Norway's sports philosophy is "sport for all" that helped the youth to get involved in all type of sports and flourish a future. Also, Norway provides free health care, which helps to keep young athletic talent in a good shape. Norwegian skier Ragnhild Mowinckel said, "The culture and the environment we grow up in, it’s great for us." Nearly half of population in Norway is the member of Norwegian Sports Federation. Three out of four Norwegian children regularly take part in sporting activities. Also, the government allocates 90 and 95 per cent of its revenues to the Sports Federation. The athletes excel majorly in winter sports. Some of the sports where Norway has been dominant for many years are speed-skaters, biathlon and ski jumpers and also in alpine skiers, curling and ice hockey Norway is slowly emerging as a champion. Though Norway is a small country, still it is sports enthusiast nations where sporting is considered as paramount.

Skiing in Norway is considered as first love. (Others)

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Norway enjoys a pleasant weather throughout the year and the average coldest temperature ranges around - 3-degree Celsius which is quite comfortable to enjoy and pursue winter sports. Skiing in Norway is impossible to miss but naturally is not possible for a country to be covered with feet of snow for the whole year. Hence, to fulfil the nation's skiing obsession, the government is coming up with world's largest indoor winter sports facility in the Oslo region.

The project is under construction but is expected to finish by the year 2019. The centre is not just for Norway's elite athletes, but for the whole community. In the ongoing games, Norway leads the medal table with a maximum number of medals, currently sits at the top with 38 medals and there are chances that it might increase. The Pyeongchang Olympics is about to end and it seems, Norway will be the ultimate champions again, leaving behind the rest of the world.

(Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above are the personal views of the author and do not reflect the views of ZMCL)

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