In Norway, the television channel TV2 won the rights to the 2014 Olympics over the State broadcaster NRK. This means that there are commercial breaks during the games. They’re not too good about showing when the commercials start.
In the Olympic Opening Ceremony the following commercial was shown. And it took me until the end before I realized that it was not a part of the ceremony.
It is called Airport Love.
It is a commercial for a sporting goods company.
Behind the scenes: Crown Prince Haakon from our film shoot today. Nice jacket! @Kronprinsparet #lillehammer2016 pic.twitter.com/YnQwEfB9nh
— Lillehammer2016 (@lillehammer2016) February 7, 2014
Crown Prince Haakon is on the committee for the Lillehammer 2016 Youth Olympics. Yesterday he was filming a promotional film for the games.
In preparation for the Winter Olympics tomorrow: Mashable has created a GIF list of some the various sports of the Winter Olympics, and the difference between when they were first introduced and now.
The scariest one is the Swiss bob sled team. I don’t think it is without reason that the bob sledders now (unlike then) have a much more protective environment, and helmets…
in February, the Lillehammer Olympics.
I remember sitting with my best friend and our families and watching the opening ceremony. And eating fastelavnsboller.
Watching the ceremony is a good warm-up for the Olympics opening ceremony next Friday…
It’s the Olympics, and this past week, I’ve been gazing at sports I never follow the rest of the time. (In addition to handball, because, you know… Norway does pretty well at that regularly.)
Among sports such as fencing, cycling (I’ve never understood the fascination of Tour de France, except, well, France), women’s weight lifting, diving and hockey, this includes swimming.
And, my little ceremony whenever someone on the US team is featured – is to watch this video:
In a move I suspected back in 2007, Princess Marie has taken on the patronage of the Danish Ski Federation.
The Federation has been working for a while to achieve this matter. It is an effort in trying to make winter sports more attractive to Danes, and increase its publicity.
The head of the Danish Ski Federation says: “We’re incredibly happy that Princess Marie has accepted to be the protector of our association. That she herself is an active skier is not inconsequential in this regard.”
The Federation is the umbrella organization for sports such as Slalom, Bob, Freestyle, Cross Country, Roller skiing, Snowboard and Telemark skiing.
The announcement comes just under a month before the Olympics in Vancouver, where Denmark is sending its largest delegation ever. The final decision on the size will be determined on January 18, when the final spots in the delegation will be awarded.
Where it seemed like Crown Prince Frederik would be the only member from the Danish royal family to head for Canada in February, it would now seem strange if he did not get accompanied by his sister-in-law.