A Swedish sports pundit may be reprimanded after jokingly announcing a women’s naked relay event while thinking he was off air. Read the full story

As expected, Finland dominated the World Mobile Phone Throwing Championships, held last month in Kesamaa, Punkaharju in the country’s Eastern lakes district. This will come as no surprise to anyone who knows that Finland is the world’s capital of weird sporting events. Read the full story

Copenhagen’s City Council has put its support behind a plan to convert part of Amager into a comprehensive recreation site. The development is expected to cost the city around 564 million kroner, and will even include an artificial ski slope at Klovermarken. Read the full story

In a controversial ruling by Australia’s swimming regulatory body, Swim Australia, one of Sweden’s most famous swimmers was disqualified, after breaking her own world record, for wearing two swimsuits. Therese Alshammar was told her new world record in the 50 metre butterfly at the Australian Championships was ruled out due to new regulations regarding swimsuits. Read the full story

Norway got a pleasant surprise when its national football team beat Germany 1-0 in a friendly match last week. It’s been 73 long years since Norway last upset the Germans on the football pitch. Germany was the runner-up at last summer’s European Championships, which makes the win all the more impressive. Read the full story

One of the most enduring transatlantic debates tends to be about who the ‘real men’ are. American football is much faster and rougher, the Americans argue. “Ah yes,” the British answer: “But anyone could do that if they were wearing crash helmets and more padding than the average walrus”. Read the full story

Olafur Stefansson, for years one of Iceland’s best handball players, was named Icelandic Sports Personality of the Year 2008, largely for his role in Iceland’s Olympic silver medal in the sport. He was awarded the full score of 480 points: “I am really happy with this. I am really happy with the year 2008,” he said. Read the full story

In an unfortunate end to one of golf’s most legendary women golfers, Sweden’s superstar Annika Sorenstam missed the cut for her final LGPA American tournament in Florida, bringing the curtain down on her 15-year career in rather anticlimactic fashion. She had hoped to last a little longer in the season-ending USLPGA ADT Championship, but didn’t make it past the second round.
Sorenstam told the crowd she had received more joy from her legendary career than she had ever imagined possible. The Local newspaper reported that Sorenstam shot a three-over 75 to finish in 18th place. “It’s almost that a tear wants to come out, but it’s not really coming out,” she said. “I think it’s because I’m very Read the full story

Registrations have been pouring in and the number of participants is getting close to 3500. This is a 50 % increase from the same time last year and if this trend continues, there will be more than 7000 participants in this year’s marathon.

The race is divided into four runs: the full marathon course, half-marathon and 10 and 3 kilometre runs.

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The Glitnir Reykjavik Marathon attracted 10,719 runners on Saturday who competed in the full marathon, half marathon and 10 kilometer race. 639 people competed in the full marathon.

David Kirkland from Great Britain won the men’s full marathon in 2 hours 32 minutes whilst Rozalyn Alexander, also from the UK, won the women’s in 3 hours. A great achievement was accomplished by Romana Eder, a 103 year old woman from Austria, who completed the full marathon in just over 4 hours. The weather was overcast with light rain but conditions were said to be ideal for running.

Glitnir Bank, a leading Nordic financial group, sponsored the marathon again this year. Glitnir is also the main sponsor of the annual Copenhagen Marathon in May and the next race will be held on May 24th, 2009.

For full details of the upcoming Glitnir Copenhagen Marathon visit http://www.copenhagenmarathon.dk .

For information on all race times visit the Glitnir Reykjavik Marathon website.