Martin Ponsiluoma has a large Swedish flag hung over his shoulders. In 2021 he won World Championship sprint gold, but on Sunday, February 15, 2026, something even bigger ended. And one over the seat. He says the same thing again and again in the mixed zone of the Olympic Arena in Antholz: – Absolutely fantastic, you only dream of it. The Swedish biathletes had missed one medal after another in the Italian Alps. Then Martin Ponsiluoma slipped into the last shot of the pursuit start as a clear second, realized that the leader Émilien Jacquelin (France) missed two shots, shot…
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Toñita Cay oversees the party from her usual spot at the bar. Photo: Pontus Höök New York. A few days ago she was on stage with the artist Bad Bunny in front of 128 million television viewers. On Thursday, 85-year-old Toñita Cay was back at work at her bar in Brooklyn — the bar that has made her a mother figure to many Puerto Ricans in the city. Check out the report: When Bad Bunny asked, 85-year-old Toñita couldn’t say no A historic Swedish threesome. Linn Svahn was finally able to win a championship medal. Jonna Sundling came second and…
Human interest in the weather can hardly be overestimated. It has left a clear mark on the language to meet the need for communication about the meteorological conditions. Recently SMHI announced that Sweden had its first project National Ice Cream Days for over two years, meaning that nowhere in the country does the temperature exceed minus 0.1 degrees for a full 24 hours. With the help of the Institute’s staff, DN has compiled a list of many more or less rare words and concepts that exist to describe the weather. – Some of it is just internal jargon, but some…
Although both Elle Fanning and Riley Keough have canceled their participation in this year’s Berlin Festival, the ensemble cast in “Rosebush Pruning” is the most star-studded film of the year. On Saturday, Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz arrived at Potsdamer Platz with his entourage in tow; Pamela Anderson, Callum Turner, Tracy Letts, Jamie Bell and rising star Lukas Gage, who got his big break in The White Lotus. In the sharp satire “Rosebush Pruning,” everyone belongs to the same cult-like rich American family, isolated in an opulent luxury villa in Catalonia. The family lives in collective apathy, trapped in cyclical abuse…
When Statistics Norway’s population figures for 2025 are published soon, the municipality of Stockholm could have broken the million barrier. At the end of November, only 381 people were needed there. But while the city of Stockholm’s forecast points to 129,000 more residents in 20 years, there are also fears of a population crisis. Recently published The Stockholm Chamber of Commerce conducted a survey of 1,107 respondents which found that one in three adults and two in five students are thinking about moving away. The housing market is cited as the main reason. “For Stockholm to continue to be an…
Women’s pronunciation is not dialectal Is it a dialectal “abuse” as many say? -You instead of what was written -or in words like People And Women? There are also many who say measured even though the word was spelled with. Henrik No, this is not a dialectal pronunciation that has crept into standard speech. The fact is that pronunciations like /kvinner/ and /mäd/ are the standard Swedish language with centuries-old origins in Sweden. The pronunciation /kvinnor/ is a newer reading pronunciation that emerged in the 20th century when the view of spoken and written language changed. Today it is generally…
One day in 2018, Johanna Heldin’s cell phone rang on the way home from studying at the hospital in Uppsala. It was Anna Hasselborg who wondered if she wanted a spot on the curling team that had won Olympic gold in South Korea a few months earlier. An offer that Heldin couldn’t refuse and this year she won her first championship at the European Championships in Estonia. Above all, she wanted to participate to see and learn. – But we had a gastrointestinal problem in the team and I had to play the first three games. “It was a little…
Heraskevytj received a nice award There was no start at the Olympic Games for the disqualified Ukrainian skeleton skater Vladyslav Heraskevytj. But even though he was able to receive a medal, he still remembered something else from the turbulent days in Cortina. Heraskevytj received the Order of Freedom from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj. The two met in Munich, where Zelensky is taking part in the ongoing security conference there. Vladyslav Heraskevytj’s father, who is also his coach, was also present at the meeting. “Medals mean a lot to Ukraine and to you, but what really matters is who you are,”…
During the 1956 Olympic Games in Cortina, the speed skating race was held on a frozen lake. Swede Sigge Ericsson won his medals, a gold and a silver, on the crystal-clear Lago di Misurina against the backdrop of the dragon-toothed limestone walls of the Dolomites. Today the mountain slopes behind the Swedish cross-country women’s medal dramas in Val di Fiemme are brown and green and practically free of natural snow. The winter culture of the Alps is mercilessly doomed. In the Olympic capital of Milan, the average February temperature has risen 5.6 degrees in the seventy years since 1956. The…
Frida Karlsson, cross-country skiing Photo: Maxim Thore/Bildbyrån – I try to be very present, for me it can be about technique or rhythm. And maybe be a little curious about the discomfort in your legs, rather than just letting another feeling take over. Kristoffer Jakobsen, alpine Photo: Gabriele Facciotti/TT – When I do my best, it’s completely quiet. It’s just a focus, a tunnel vision. Everything just comes together and it works. Then there are those moments when you end up on a cliff and suddenly you hear the whole audience screaming. Then you are unfocused. Hanna Öberg, biathlon Photo:…
Filip Gravenfors comes through the spectator entrance of the moguls arena in Livigno, dressed from head to toe in Swedish Olympic clothing. He had taken the entire collection home, packed and ready for his first Olympics. But in a training session before departure he fell on the hill and broke his collarbone. The Olympic debut had to be canceled. Now the 21-year-old is already there surgery and feels reasonably mobile, even though it has only been a little over two weeks since the accident. – They were pretty hectic or strange days. You lie at home and feel like shit,…
“We’re just going to go out and drive around the USA,” says striker Thea Johansson. “They won their group, but it’s nothing we can’t handle,” she continues with confidence and a dose of North American exuberance. After Sweden won the quarterfinals against the Czech Republic on Friday and reached the semifinals of a championship for the first time in 12 years, they had to wait a day to know which team they would face. Not surprisingly, it was the United States. In the quarterfinals on Saturday, Germany had little to fight and the USA won 5-1. As the lowest rank…
“I’m having a brat summer/Brat summer/Partying like I’m dumber/Brat summer… Any festival-goers in Berlin who really wanted to party like it was summer 2024 were perhaps a little disappointed. On Saturday, Charli XCX broke bad news to all fans. “It’s actually up to the world, but brat summer is definitely over for me,” Charli told XCX when she met with the world’s press on Saturday afternoon. The pop star from Cambridge is in Berlin to launch the mockumentary “The Moment,” which is the final nail in the coffin. It’s a loud and chaotic satire in which she plays a “hell…
When Brian Armstrong, CEO of crypto trading firm Coinbase, released last year’s third quarter report, he concluded in a seemingly strange way: “I just want to add the words Bitcoin, Ethereum, Blockchain, Staking and Web 3 here to make sure we understand them before the conversation ends.” The reason for this was that he had noticed that people on the Polymarket and Kalshi prediction markets had speculated that these words would be mentioned. In total, users are said to have bet a total of $84,000 on this very slim thing. – This is part of a kind of consumer culture…
Less than a day after the big curling brawl in Cortina, Sweden’s men were back on the ice – and the reigning champions finally got their first victory in the tournament. “It was about time,” said captain Niklas Edin, admitting it was a difficult start. – We knew in the first three games that we had the three toughest teams and said in advance that we would have won the three games. It’s almost always the case that we lose at the beginning and win a lot at the end. “Three defeats in a row looks worse than they are,…
The accident occurred on the second of four stages of the women’s cross-country skiing relay. Ebba Andersson fell on the last descent and destroyed her right ski during the subsequent jump forward. – It’s a nightmare. You suffer for her, but she does her best and yes, what more could you want? says men’s coach Lars Ljung, who was positioned along the route in the next so-called trainer zone. Lars Ljung did everything he had. “Stefan Thomson was an athletics coach, so you should be happy if he thinks I ran well.” Photo: Christine Olsson/TT He himself did not see…
This is a review. The author is responsible for the opinions in the text. Picture book Mia Breitholtz and Louise Winblad “Baby Recycling” Rabén & Sjögren, ages three and up Shirin always wanted a sibling, but that didn’t happen. She has two! Now there is chaos at home. Since the twin brothers arrived, everything has been up and down. With the help of her preschool friends, Shirin begins to make plans. Maybe you can give the brothers away, mail them to the king in the castle, or give them away second hand? “Baby Recovery” is a dramatic and twisted comedy…
This is an opinion piece in Dagens Nyheter. The author is responsible for the opinions in the article. What exactly is a classic? Can it be injured? These are questions I’ve been thinking about over the last few weeks during the debate over reinterpretations of classic children’s books. In recent years, several sequels and new editions of well-known children’s books have been published. For example, novels and scripts about Pippi Longstocking were provided with new illustrations, partly by the talented cartoonist Fabian Göranson, partly by an anonymous and presumably highly artificial intelligence. In addition to Elsa Beskow’s “Tomtebobarnen”, “Hatstugan” (1930)…
This is a review. The author is responsible for the opinions in the text. Picture book Kim Crumrine “The Little Red Warehouse” Little pirate, for zero years A wonderful production of “The Magic Flute” is currently being performed at the Royal Opera House. It’s playful, thoroughly exciting and makes full use of the well-worn stage machinery. The choir consists of school children, bears and scouts, and after the break the two-person tent is set up. A sleepy scout comes out, then another and another. Then two more roll out and then a whole little patrol. The youngest children understand that…
Arundhati Roy would have attended the Berlin Film Festival as the screenwriter of the film “In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones” (1989), which is shown in the festival’s classic program. But now Roy has decided to withdraw his participation, writes Variety. The author, in a written commentary in India’s The Wire, refers to “the unreasonable statements” made by some festival jury members regarding Gaza. At a press conference on the opening day of the festival, jury chief Wim Wenders advocated, among other things, that the film world should stay away from politics. The film festival welcomes When the jury…