With my football blog concentrating on the women at the moment, I thought it only fair to turn my attention to women's ice-hockey as well.
The Hockey Canada Cup starts Monday evening in Vancouver's GM Place and will be a strong test for the Olympic organizers as well as for the four nations expected to battle it out for the Olympic 1-2-3. Women's teams representing Canada, the USA, Sweden and Finland will...
Andreas Thorkildsen, NOR is without doubt the shining star in javelin throwing at the moment. 91,28 World Leading this year at Weltklasse in Zürich yesterday! This time with Nordic Orbit carbon.
Gold medal in World Championships 2009 by Andreas Thorkildsen from Norway and Nordic Airglider carbon from Sweden!
The last day of the IAAF World Championships was an eventful one with surprises, disqualifications and sure things.
First the disqualification when Spain's Natalia Rodriguez shoved Ethiopia's Gelete Burka in her effort to come through on the inside in the final stages of the women's 1500 metres. On Swedish television after the race, Rodriguez said she was pushed herself as she came up on the inside but the judges...
Saturday night at the World Championships belonged to Australian pole vaulter Steven Hooker. He has something that we Englishmen outwardly hate but envy in private. Don't know exactly what it is but it's missing in many modern-day athletes. Just twelve days ago this man suffered a thigh injury during an Australian training camp that would put most athletes out of contention in the pending...
Bit of a mixed day yesterday at the IAAF World Championships. The event that caught me was the high jump again, the men's this time. It didn't start off all that well and was quite uneventful in the early stages but it did hot up eventually, much due to the fact that the home crowd had a favourite in the mix. In the end, four jumpers cleared 2.32 and with world leader Ukhov already out of...
I seem to have started to name the respective competition evenings at the IAAF World Championships so I'll carry on by calling last night "favourites' night".
The finals are coming thick and fast as we come to the end of the week and last night's events included four of them. The women's high jump was the first to start but I'll come back to that as the first event to be decided wa...
If Tuesday night at the IAAF World Championships was medals-for-long-service-night then yesterday was surprise-night. At least three events finished with surprise gold-medallists and the German spectators were once again treated to a golden evening.
The men's 1500 metres started off this incredible evening when favourite Kiprop of Kenya failed to make it from the back of the field...
Seemed like the gold medals in last night's IAAF World Championships were awarded for long and loyal service.
First of all, the women's 400 metres was won by the USA's Sanya Richards. She has been the world's number one for the last five years but has never been a champion in any major athletic competitions. She missed out on qualifying for the...
Ramavtal - det ultimata sättet att använda skattebetalarnas pengar?
Sverige består i huvudsak av små- och medelstora företag. Faktum är att de stora företagen är procentuellt små i jämförelse och Sverige skulle sluta att fungera om vi inte hade alla dessa småföretagare. Dessvärre måste jag säga att det inte verkar som om alla har förstått detta, mest sorgligt är det ändå att vår alliansregering inte heller gjort detta. Vi var många små- och medelstora företagsledare/ägare som gladdes åt segern för alliansen och tänkte att nu skulle vi äntligen få upprättelse och...
But last night it wasn't size that mattered. Two of the biggest favourites of this year's World Championships were going to take their gold medals last night. Not even good old Usain was such a clear favourite, after all he was expected to get some competition. Last night it was Yelena Isinbayeva and Kenenisa Bekele who were there to fetch their medals with just a short competition in the...
Weather stations around the world reported that lightning had struck Berlin last night. And what a strike! Jamaica's Usain Bolt had wiped out his own world record and I can't see how anyone but Bolt himself could repeat anything like that time in the foreseeable future. Plenty has been said and written about the winner, I feel sorry for the man who came second. USA's Tyson Gaye has been th...
So far this year the number of European rookies signing on with NHL clubs has dropped 46% compared with the same time last year. Although more European free-agents will sign on before the season start due to a lack of transfer agreement between the European leagues and the NHL, the number will probably be around 50%. This doesn't necessarily mean there will be fewer Europeans playing in the NHL next season as the number of players travelling in the opposite direction has also gone down, from 46 to 25. Th...
Maria Abakumova from Russia made world leading throw during the womens qualification at World Championships in Berlin today. It measured 68,92 m and she used Nordic Xena carbon.
We will be three people from Nordic Sport present at
12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics from August 20th to August 24th. That is:
Mr Andreas Eriksson - Managing Director
Mr Borje Osterberg - Chairman of the board
and the undersigned
Emma Lundkvist - Sales Director
If you want to meet us in Berlin during this event, please do not hesitate to contact us.
You can e-mail to: emma@nordicsport.se or call my cellphone: 46 70 3979447
Hope to see you there!
AP Photo/M. Spencer Green
A short while ago I wrote how Marian Hossa had made the move from Stanley Cup runners-up Detroit Redwings to the Chicago Blackhawks, calling him a Jonah. Seems he is in more ways than one. The NHL is now investigating the contract he has with the Hawks, a $62.8 million, 12 year contract. The question is whether Hossa and the Hawks ever discussed the idea of the player retiring before his contract runs out...