Once upon a time, we didn't head into the Winter Olympics hearing about black widow suicide bombers. Once upon a time, the Olympic Games didn't require 40,000-person security forces forming a Ring of ...
Size isn't everything - even in the Olympic world. Arguably the best illustration of this came 20 years ago this month, when the Olympic cauldron was lit closer to the Arctic circle than ever before ...
(ATR) The Lillehammer 2016 Winter YOG are underway in Norway with the spirit of the 1994 Winter Olympics alive and well.
The mascot for the Lillehammer 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games has been officially named Sjogg. The mountain lynx is named after the main ingredient in the Winter Olympics - snow. In the Gudbrandsdal ...
Mascots Wenlock and Mandeville, drops of steel with cameras for eyes, are all over London to get the British capital ready for the Summer Olympics. They represent the start of the Industrial ...
Editor’s note: “#ThrowbackThursday” is a feature series published on Paralympic.org twice a month, bringing you some of the top Paralympic athletes of the past and seeing where they are now. For the ...
FILE - In this Feb. 25, 1994, file photo, a sea of Norwegian flags fill the stands waved by fans celebrating the sweep of the medal positions by the Norway alpine ski team in the men’s combined event ...
12 FEB 1994: THE OLYMPIC FLAME IS LIT BY CROWN PRINCE HAAKON TO SIGNAL THE START OF THE 1994 WINTER OLYMPICS IN LILLEHAMMER, NORWAY. Mandatory Credit: Shaun Botterill/ALLSPORT Getty Images Lillehammer ...
The Para snow sports have never witnessed anything like the 11 action-packed days at the first-ever combined Para alpine skiing, Para Nordic skiing and Para snowboard World Championships. Iconic snow ...
CARVED TROLLS ARE EVERYWHERE. Private cars are forbidden downtown. Lake Mjosa? Sounds like a flu symptom. OK: so Lillehammer isn't suave Albertville, or even Calgary. But visitors to the sleepy ...
Maipo Film, the leading Norwegian banner behind “Heirs of the Night” and “Lykkeland,” has teamed up with Tel Aviv-based Spiro Films (“When Heroes Fly”) to develop “Blindspot,” a thought-provoking ...