Last year’s numbers spoke volumes. Sebastian Samuelsson needed to do something to improve his low standing shooting percentage (78%). If the individual races Now the Olympic biathlon is starting in Italy, albeit after a weak performance in the World Cup and a total shooting collapse at the premiere of the mixed relay. In the distance race on Tuesday, the Swedish biathlon star has to prove that last Sunday’s nightmare series was not based on self-confidence. At the same time, the stats don’t lie when you look at the entire season. “Standing shooting has gotten better,” Samuelsson told DN before the…
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At the same moment that a mix of Ricky Martin’s ’90s hits “Living La Vida Loca” and “La Copa de la Vida” began to play over the speakers at Milan’s ice skating arena, the Swedish ice dancing couple was historic in more ways than one. Nikolaj Majorov is now the only figure skater in the world to have competed in the Olympic Games in both men’s singles and ice dance. In addition, he and his Norwegian-born girlfriend Milla Ruud Reitan – who also became a Swedish citizen last month – are Sweden’s first ice dancing couple at the Olympics. -…
Why is night interesting to you? – It’s the day-to-day administration that you don’t think about that we want to save, because it can be very different. These days, many people listen to audio books or have electronic activity monitors while they sleep. You didn’t have that before. People usually say that the most boring thing is when someone tells you about your dream, but I think the opposite is true, it only happens when you let the mask go and sometimes when a friend tells you about a dream it can feel like you’re getting to know them for…
By “scandal” Majorov means the biggest scandal at the previous Winter Games in Beijing in 2022, when he himself competed in the men’s singles. The focus of the sports world then came to the Russian world record holder Kamila Valieva, who at the age of 15 was the first to complete a quadruple competition at the Olympic Games and won the team competition for Russia. That is, before she fasted during a drug test. Valieva was disqualified and her point deduction meant the Russian team dropped to bronze. She was allowed to take part in the subsequent women’s individual competition…
This is an opinion piece in Dagens Nyheter. The author is responsible for the opinions in the article. At this time of year, many Swedish researchers want to pull their hair out. The semester begins at the same time as the largest research proposals are submitted. For many humanities scholars, success with these applications is the only chance of being able to conduct research at all. At universities and colleges it often happens that you have a job that you have to buy your way out of. It is both a pressure and stressful situation for the individual researcher and…
A video clip from the protests in Copenhagen in January appears on the Facebook feed. Greenlandic rapper Tarrak performs in front of the US Embassy. His anti-colonial fight song “Tupilak,” which echoes across the block, was included on debut album “Fxgxs,” which rocked the debate in 2016 with its criticism of Danish racism. Together with several other musicians, veteran Siiva Fleischer, known from the popular 80s band Zikaza, recently released the protest song “Kalaallit Nunaat Kalaallit pigaat” (Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders), which was heard at demonstrations in Nuuk. The Greenland crisis has mobilized the local music scene, and even…
The equestrian sports association imposed an age limit of 13 years for participation in national and international competitions – and received criticism. The proposal was later withdrawn, but the criticism of Sandra Ruuda has not lost its strength. Just last week, more than 160 people, including equestrian star Rolf-Göran Bengtsson, wrote an open letter calling for Ruuda’s resignation. “I would have liked to stay in office until the next general meeting, but in the interests of Swedish equestrian sport this is the right decision,” says Ruuda, who was elected chairwoman in 2023 and was the first woman to hold this…
Eileen Gu, or Gu Ailing as she is known in China, achieved superstar status at the 2022 Olympics when she won gold in both big air and halfpipe as an 18-year-old. The only person standing in the way of her triple was Switzerland’s Gremaud, who took home gold in slopestyle. The two skaters also have another story on the sidelines, where Gremaud was abandoned before Beijing by his coach, who instead chose to work for Gu during the Olympics. It happened again before these games. Shortly after the X-Games in January, Gremaud said that coach Misra Noto, with whom she…
The Amazon documentary about US First Lady Melania Trump was described as “propaganda” by the New York Times, “pure, endless hell” by the Guardian and “disgraceful” by The Atlantic. At the same time, “Melania” was a popular hit in American cinemas and grossed the equivalent of SEK 62 million on its opening weekend. The film received an unusually high rating of 99 percent on Rotten Tomatoes’ so-called “Popcorn Meter,” which measures audience opinions. The value is on par with Orson Welles’ classic “Citizen Kane” and higher than all three “The Godfather” films. However, only 8 percent of critics rated the…
One of the absolute biggest talking points surrounding the Winter Olympics so far has been 41-year-old Lindsey Vonn’s decision to compete in the downhill race on Sunday despite suffering an ACL injury just over a week before the Olympic competition in Crans-Montana. When Vonn took off on Sunday, it didn’t take long for the convoy to take another turn. In the first sharp right-hand bend on the track – after just 13 seconds of driving – she fell heavily and ended up lying in the snow. After being treated by staff on the hill, she was transported to the hospital…
Researchers from the Stockholm School of Economics, together with Lund University, Norway’s Oslomet and Harvard University, examined happiness among Swedes. The study is based on survey responses from over 15,000 Swedes and shows clear age differences in happiness and well-being. The comparison is mainly between 18-24 year olds and those over 70 years old. – It hardly matters what question we ask, whether it’s about loneliness, meaning and purpose, or happiness. Younger people feel worse than older people, Nora Hansson Bittár, a doctoral student at the Center for Wellbeing, Welfare and Happiness at the School of Economics, tells TT. Young…
What is unusual is that the world elite in cross-country skiing skied exactly the sprint route that now awaits them at the Olympic Games – just a month ago, during the Tour de Ski. The insights gained from this shape the way competitors now think about tactics. – It’s a track where you have to be both fast and strong, but I think you can have 80 percent speed and 20 percent power and do just as well as the other way around. “I think there are more opportunities to win on the track,” said Maja Dahlqvist, who has to…
This is a review. The author is responsible for the opinions in the text. novel Camel Daoud “The Scar” Trans. Ulla Bruncrona Book publisher Tranan, 444 pages In a massacre, the arbitrariness of the violence is inextricably linked to its cruelty. It is often chance that decides who in a group is killed and who survives. The survivors receive a different punishment. They become witnesses and are forced to make lists of the executioners and their victims. A witness is someone who has seen. Who knows something about history that needs to be preserved for the future? The main character…
This is a comment text. The author is responsible for the analysis and positioning in the text. I love shopping. This can probably be explained in many ways, such as there being an imbalance in my brain or the fact that I never received any meaningful education in economics (I once considered entrepreneurship as an elective in high school, whereupon the Culture Father said this: “Choose something you have utility for instead, like philosophy”). Only sometimes do I have the energy to be ashamed of my joy in wasting money. Shopping is Thanks. At least the way I do it.…
In December 2024, the American Richard Z Wimmel received a letter from his insurance company. The message: His home in a fire-ravaged part of California is no longer insurable. The risks are too great. And he is not alone. The New York Times, which described the fate of Richard Z. Wimmel, reported last December that 1.9 million Americans had their insurance policies canceled. When major fires hit California last winter, thousands of victims were uninsured. Now the financial regulator is warning because Sweden faces similar risks, albeit on a much smaller scale. Houses in areas with a high risk of…
This is a joke. The author is responsible for the opinions expressed in the text. My colleague’s curious gaze met mine in the editorial office. It was the other day. Volvo presented its new electric SUV. They eagerly responded to their colleague’s words: “During the record years, Volvo’s new car models were just as big news as they were when the Social Democrats changed party leadership.” The words stuck. The record years. Then the Social Democrats gathered half of the Swedish voters – and changed the party leader every twenty years. Volvo also dominated car sales and changed its car…
It would have been more understandable if the National Board of Health and Welfare had said it was about priorities rather than citing evidence. This is the reasoning of many doctors who criticize the National Board of Health and Welfare’s decision to no longer recommend colon cancer screening after the age of 50. The authority refers to the SBU, the state preparation for medical and social assessment, which was tasked with answering the question of whether lowering the screening age reduces mortality. The answer is based on an analysis of the science on which the EU’s screening recommendations are based.…
Nagano 1998 Expectations were huge ahead of the Nagano Olympics, where NHL players would take part for the first time, but for Sweden it was a strange Olympics. The day before the quarterfinal against Finland, news came that Swedish defender Ulf Samuelsson had decided to take American citizenship three years earlier, after living in the United States for many years. When the Swedish Ice Hockey Association consulted the Swedish Foreign Ministry in the middle of the Olympics – after journalists began looking into the story – they were told that Samuelsson had lost his Swedish citizenship as a result Samuelsson…
– It was a great team and we knew we had a chance to win gold. – After the disappointment in 2002 (Tre Kronor lost to Belarus), we also knew that it was important for Swedish hockey that we could do better this time. They succeeded, and the ending was so well staged that it will forever hold a special place in the hockey hearts of all Swedes. However, when Henrik Lundqvist’s Czech New York Rangers teammates were delayed in Turin due to a snowstorm in New York, Henrik Lundqvist landed as planned on February 13, 2006. Photo: Marcus Ericsson/Bildbyrån…
The winter of 1986 was relatively cold. During the sports holiday week, there were typical road conditions in Stockholm, icy bark on the sidewalks, dirty gray plow benches. On Friday evening, advertiser Stig Engström was working at Skandiahuset on Sveavägen. In the same neighborhood, Christer Pettersson roamed between the black club Oxen on Malmskillnadsgatan and the drug dealer Sigge Cedergren’s neighborhood in Tegnérgatshörnet. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister came to the Grand Cinema to see Suzanne Osten’s “The Mozart Brothers”. The whereabouts of Christer A, a disturbed hermit whose hobby is shooting revolvers, is unknown, but he lived not too far…