A Swedish sports pundit may be reprimanded after jokingly announcing a women’s naked relay event while thinking he was off air.
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Sports pundits announce women’s naked relay
Posted on 26 December 2011.
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Finland dominates World Mobile Phone throwing competition
Posted on 11 September 2009.
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.
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A ski hill for Copenhagen?
Posted on 04 April 2009.
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.
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Swede’s swimsuit disqualifies her world record
Posted on 26 March 2009.
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.
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Norway gets unexpected football win
Posted on 18 February 2009.
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.
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American football gets new coach to help the British
Posted on 20 January 2009.
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”.
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Handballer Olafur Stefansson best athlete in Iceland
Posted on 05 January 2009.
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 [...]
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Golf legend Sorenstam’s career ends with a whimper
Posted on 28 November 2008.
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 [...]
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