May 28, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Gold_medal":
Sport: 14 May 12
Swedish Olympic gold medalist triple jumper Christian Olsson is abandoning his bid to compete at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, the one-time world record holder said as he announced on Monday he was retiring from the sport.
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Society: 20 Apr 12
US president Barack Obama praised the "selfless acts" of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg in a special video message released Thursday to coincide with Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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Business & Money: 10 Feb 12
Mats Sundin, the ex-Swedish hockey great, has made a donation supporting research into children's health at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and the University of Toronto.
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Sport: 4 Jan 12
The Swedish ice-hockey juniors reached the World Cup final after a gut wrenching turn against sister nation Finland during the night to Wednesday.
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Society: 10 Dec 11
Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf handed out the Nobel prizes in medicine, literature, economics, physics and chemistry the 2011 laureates at a gala ceremony in Stockholm on Saturday.
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Sport: 4 Dec 11
When the dust had settled after the last match of the world championship in arm wrestling in Kazakhstan on Saturday, ten Swedish women held no fewer than twelve medals in different classes - four gold, seven silver, and one bronze.
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National: 27 Nov 11
The World Deaf Futsal Championship was marred by a stabbing incident at the closing ceremony of the indoor football tournament in Örebro on Saturday.
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Sport: 5 Sep 11
Swedish handicapped swimmer Anders Olsson shocked a field of experienced open-water swimmers by winning a race from prison island Alcatraz to the California mainland in record time on Sunday.
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Sport: 26 Aug 11
Chances look slim for Sweden’s 16 athletes at the IAAF World Championships 2011 which open in the South Korean city of Daegu this weekend.
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Sport: 31 Jul 11
Sweden's superstar swimmer Therese Alshammar finally snagged her gold after winning the women's 50m freestyle title at the world championships on Sunday.
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Travel: 6 Jul 11
The Archipelago Festival - one of the East Coast's largest and longest summer events - is a unique experience where visitors travel back in time to experience how it was in the Västervik archipelago in the early 1900's.
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Lifestyle: 4 May 11
Beer blogger Darren Packman offers his thoughts on seven new beers set to hit the shelves in select Systembolaget stores in May, as Sweden's state-run liquor monopoly does its part to mark the arrival of spring.
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Lifestyle: 8 Apr 11
While Stieg Larsson's Millennium crime trilogy turned him into a global phenomenon, the late Swedish author never dreamed of being famous, his Swedish biographer tells The Local's Geoff Mortimore.
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Sport: 21 Mar 11
Swedish NHL star Nicklas Lidström has been honoured by his US hometown in recognition of his sporting achievements with the Detroit Red Wings.
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Sport: 2 Mar 11
Ida Ingemarsdotter and Charlotte Kalla gave Sweden the gold on Wednesday in the women's team sprint at the world Nordic ski championships.
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Sport: 25 Feb 11
Sweden's Marcus Hellner captured gold at the world Nordic ski championships on Thursday, beating out Norwegian Petter Northug in the men's sprint.
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Sport: 16 Feb 11
Sweden claimed the team bronze at the world ski championships in Germany on Wednesday after demolishing Italy 4-0 in the third-place play-off.
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Sport: 14 Feb 11
Swedish hockey legend Peter Forsberg has given up on his bid to make a comeback in the National Hockey League and is retiring from ice hockey.
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Sport: 12 Feb 11
Sweden's Peter Forsberg return to the NHL on Friday with his old team, the Colorado Avalanche, was not enough to lift them against the Columbus Blue Jackets, who skated away with a 3-1 victory.
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Sport: 29 Jan 11
Henrik and Daniel Sedin, the Swedish twins who play for the Vancouver Canucks, will line up on opposite sides for Sunday's NHL all-star game.
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Sport: 19 Jan 11
Swedish blueliner Nicklas Lidstrom was selected as an NHL all-star captain for the 2011 game, responsible for picking his team out of a pool of elite players.
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Sport: 20 Dec 10
Swedish swimming star Therese Alshammar claimed a silver medal in the short course world championships in Dubai on Sunday and was obliged to surrender her medals record despite an earlier gold.
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Society: 10 Dec 10
Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf handed the 2010 Nobel laureates in literature, economics, physics and chemistry their prizes on Friday at a gala ceremony in Stockholm.
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Lifestyle: 8 Nov 10
As Malmö continues to celebrate its Swedish championship gold medal, contributor Nic Townsend looks back at a season that ended quite differently than many observers of Swedens’ expected premier football league expected.
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Sport: 22 Oct 10
Roger Federer and home favourite Robin Söderling both qualified for the quarterfinals of the Stockholm Open with ease on Thursday, beating Taylor Dent and Benjamin Becker respectively.
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National: 23 Aug 10
The canoe which carried home the gold for Anders Gustafsson in the World Championships in Poland on Sunday was among those destroyed in an accident on the German autobahn on Monday morning, which left two people in hospital.
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Sport: 14 Aug 10
Swedish swimmer Sarah Sjöström lived up to domestic expectations on Friday as she claimed the gold medal in the 100 metre butterfly event at the European Championships in Budapest.
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Sport: 15 Jul 10
With just days remaining before deadline for qualification for the 2010 European Championships, Swedish athlete and Olympic heptathlon gold medallist Carolina Klüft is battling to achieve a long jump distance to ensure participation.
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Sport: 31 May 10
Despite a 100 percent career record, world number one Roger Federer says it would be a fatal mistake to under-estimate Robin Soderling in their French Open quarter-final.
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Sport: 21 May 10
Sweden's Tre Kronor will face the Czech Republic in the semi-finals of the World Hockey Championships.
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Sport: 22 Mar 10
The Swedish curling team has claimed the bronze at the Paralympics overcoming the USA 7-5 in Vancouver on Saturday. The host nation, Canada won the gold after beating the Koreans 8-7.
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National: 15 Mar 10
Sweden's sledge hockey team received a thumping in Vancouver on Sunday as Canada posted a 10-1 win in the second group game at the Paralympic Games.
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Sport: 23 Feb 10
Sweden claimed a valiant silver behind Germany in the women's cross country team sprint event at Vancouver Winter Olympics on Monday, the team's fifth medal in the sport.
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National: 22 Feb 10
Sweden clinched a place in the last eight of the Vancouver Winter Olympic
hockey tournament with a 3-0 win over Finland on Sunday evening.
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Sport: 19 Feb 10
Reigning Olympic champions Sweden saw off the challenge of Belarus on Friday, eight years on from a defeat at the hands of the same opponents that still haunts the men in blue and yellow.
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Sport: 18 Feb 10
Sweden opened their Olympic hockey title defence with a 2-0 victory over Germany on Wednesday with goals from Mattius Öhlund and Henrik Lundqvist.
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Sport: 17 Feb 10
Sweden's Anja Pärson and Maria Rieschen of Germany will be doing their best to make sure Lindsey Vonn's expected gold medal streak does not take the shine off their own Olympic Games.
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Sport: 16 Feb 10
Swedish ice-hockey's talisman, Peter Forsberg, reports that he is winning his fight to be fit to seek his third Olympic crown with the Tre Kronor national team.
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National: 15 Feb 10
Olympic debutante Charlotte Kalla won the women's 10km freestyle in Vancouver on Monday to claim Sweden's first gold medal at the 2010 games.
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Sport: 5 Feb 10
Sweden has declared a target of ten medals at the upcoming Winter Olympics in Vancouver, despite a record haul of 14 in Turin four years ago.
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Sport: 29 Dec 09
A day after forward Mikael Samuelsson slammed the Swedish ice hockey team leadership for leaving him off the provisional Olympic roster, coach Bengt-Åke Gustafsson said he had no plans to reach out to the disgruntled right winger.
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Sport: 27 Dec 09
While Sweden was set to release its provisional roster for its 2010 Olympic hockey team on Sunday, the Ottawa Senators announced that their captain, Daniel Alfredsson, a key player in Sweden's 2006 Olympic gold medal run, will be out four to six weeks.
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Society: 10 Dec 09
Nobel season reaches its pinnacle on Thursday evening as the 2009 laureates receive their awards from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and dignitaries gather for the banquet of the year at City Hall in Stockholm.
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Sport: 12 Nov 09
Swedish swimmer Therese Alshammar set a new world record at the World Cup meet in Stockholm on Wednesday, while another one of her previous world records fell.
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Sport: 11 Nov 09
Swedish swimmer Stefan Nystrand set a new national record at the short-course World Cup in Stockholm on Tuesday, while American Olympic sensation Michael Phelps failed to live up to expectations.
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Lifestyle: 3 Nov 09
As the Swedish championship gold medal makes its way to Solna, Nic Townsend looks back at another eventful season in Sweden’s premier football competition.
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Sport: 10 Oct 09
Swedish ice hockey star and Detroit Red Wings forward Johan Franzén will be out for four months with a torn knee ligament and risks missing the Vancouver Olympics in 2010.
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Sport: 30 Sep 09
Swedish hockey great Mats Sundin announced his retirement from professional ice hockey at a hastily announced press conference in Stockholm on Wednesday.
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Sport: 16 Feb 09
The sporting world’s highest court on Monday rejected an appeal by Swedens’ Ara Abrahamian to have his Olympic bronze medal for wrestling reinstated.
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Sport: 29 Jan 09
Swedish star Henrik Zetterberg signed a 12-year multi-million dollar contract with Detroit in a deal that will likely keep him with the Red Wings for the remainder of his career.
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Sport: 20 Jan 09
Cross-country skiing sensation Charlotte Kalla was awarded the Jerring prize for the best sporting performance of 2008 at Sweden's sports gala on Monday evening.
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Lifestyle: 31 Dec 08
As 2008 draws to a close, The Local takes a look back at some of the stories that caught our attention over the last twelve months.
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Sport: 19 Dec 08
Swedish ice hockey forward Mats Sundin has completed a high profile switch from the Toronto Maple Leafs to the Vancouver Canucks
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Sport: 16 Dec 08
Former Swedish women’s football star Pia Sundhage, who led the US women’s side to Olympic gold at Beijing, has been asked to stay on as coach through the 2012 Olympics.
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Society: 10 Dec 08
Princess Madeleine and economics laureate Paul Krugman were among the guests at the Nobel banquet in Stockholm's City Hall on Wednesday evening.
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Science & Technology: 5 Dec 08
American Yoichiro Nambu, 87, who won this year's Nobel Physics Prize with two Japanese physicists, will not travel to Stockholm next week for the award ceremony, the Nobel Foundation said on Friday.
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Sport: 30 Nov 08
Sweden's Ericsson 4 won the second leg of the around-the-world Volvo Ocean Race on Sunday morning, cruising into India's Kochi port three days ahead of schedule.
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Lifestyle: 17 Nov 08
Sweden is not a country renowned for its beers. But when Darren Packman has a nose around, he finds there's more to the country's brewers than meets the gut on a typical night out.
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Society: 9 Oct 08
As the Swedish Academy prepares to announce the winner of the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, critics argue that major US literary figures are being unfairly sidelined.
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Sport: 14 Sep 08
Swedish high jumper Stefan Holm announced his retirement from the sport on Saturday. Holm ended his 20-year 'love affair' with a second place at the World Athletics Final in Stuttgart.
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Sport: 11 Sep 08
Swedish wrestler Ara Abrahamian has lodged an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport after he was controversially stripped of an Olympic bronze medal.
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Sport: 8 Sep 08
Swedish athletes have finally won gold in Beijing as two of the country’s Paralympians achieved victory on Monday.
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Sport: 25 Aug 08
The sport of taekwondo's Olympic future is in doubt after a Swedish referee was kicked in the head on Saturday by a disgruntled competitor.
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Sport: 21 Aug 08
Sweden's Fredrik Lööf and Anders Ekström won an Olympic bronze in the men's Star yachting on Wednesday amid claims that they were robbed of a silver medal.
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Sport: 19 Aug 08
Defending Olympic champion Stefan Holm had his hopes of a gold medal dashed on Tuesday - the Swede came fourth in the men's high jump final.
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Sport: 16 Aug 08
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) ruled on Saturday that the bronze medal awarded to Swedish wrestler Ara Abrahamian has been revoked.
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Sport: 15 Aug 08
Grumpy Greco-Roman wrestler Ara Abrahamian will face disciplinary action after refusing to accept a bronze medal, which he dumped on the floor, before storming away from his presentation ceremony.
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Sport: 14 Aug 08
Greco-Roman wrestler Ara Abrahamian of Sweden refused to receive his bronze medal on Thursday as the Beijing Olympics was treated to a raised-fist protest.
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Sport: 8 Aug 08
Injured triple jump giant Christian Olsson will lead the Swedish team into the Beijing National Stadium for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on Friday.
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Sport: 6 Aug 08
With the official opening of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games just days away, The Local offers readers a quick guide to some of Sweden’s medal hopefuls.
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Sport: 31 Jul 08
Reigning champion Caroline Klüft confirmed on Thursday she is done competing in the heptathlon for good.
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National: 23 Jul 08
A thigh muscle injury to Christian Olsson, the defending Olympic triple jump champion, soured the DN Gala for Swedish fans in Stockholm on Tuesday. Olsson will now miss out on Beijing and his career could be over.
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Sport: 14 Jul 08
Swedish high-jumper Stefan Holm set a 2008 world best by jumping 2.37 metres in Athens. Holm looked in top form as the defence of his Olympic title beckons.
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Lifestyle: 7 Jul 08
Swedish golden girl Carolina Klüft is determined to bag two gold medals at the Beijing Olympics after renouncing the defence of her heptathlon crown due to lack of motivation, writes AFP's Pauline Conradsson.
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Sport: 20 May 08
Swedish athletics star Carolina Klüft has expressed her displeasure over a promotional image combining her likeness with a caricature of Pippi Longstocking.
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Sport: 18 May 08
Sweden lost to Finland in the bronze medal match of the World Ice Hockey Championships Saturday, being shut out 4-0 by their Scandinavian rival.
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Sport: 17 May 08
Canada advanced to the gold medal game of the World Ice Hockey Championships on Friday with a four-goal rally in the second period to beat Sweden 5-4.
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Sport: 11 May 08
A goal in the dying seconds earned Russia a win over Sweden at the Ice Hockey World Championships in Canada.
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Sport: 9 May 08
Sweden scored three goals in three minutes, 14 seconds in the third period as they trounced Denmark 8-1.
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Sport: 8 May 08
Switzerland secured a shock win over reigning champions Sweden in the World Championships on Wednesday.
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Sport: 7 May 08
Olympic gold medallist Henrik Lundqvist has agreed to join the Swedish national team for the remainder of the World Ice Hockey Championships.
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National: 27 Mar 08
Sweden’s athletically-inclined former Minister of Justice Thomas Bodström has suggested that Sweden boycott parts of the Olympic Games in Beijing.
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Sport: 19 Mar 08
Swedish champion Carolina Klüft will not defend her heptathlon title at the Beijing Games.
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Society: 26 Feb 08
Peter Forsberg has said he will return to the Colorado Avalanche for the remainder of the 2007-08 National Hockey League season.
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Sport: 7 Jan 08
Champion Swedish high-jumper Kajsa Bergqvist says she plans to retire from top-flight athletics, citing a lack of motivation.
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Sport: 27 Dec 07
Nicklas Lidström has agreed to terms on a contract extension on Wednesday with the Detroit Red Wings.
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Sport: 19 Dec 07
Carolina Klüft and Stefan Holm have proposed radical measures to keep athletes from taking performance-enhancing drugs.
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Sport: 17 Dec 07
Skiing: Pärson impresses in Switzerland. Golf: Two Swedish golds in Hungary. Football: Albin Ekdal goes to Juventus.
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National: 10 Dec 07
The winners of the 2007 Nobel prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry and economics received their awards from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf in a ceremony on Monday.
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Sport: 4 Dec 07
Anja Pärson is Sweden's top sports personality for the second year in succession.
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Society: 26 Nov 07
Australian man trains for Santa Games with Rudolph the red-nosed kangaroo.
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Sport: 19 Nov 07
Swimming: Stefan Nystrand excels in Berlin. Golf: Jimenez snatches Hong Kong victory from Karlsson. Football: Swedes prepare for crucial tie against Latvia.
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Sport: 6 Nov 07
Tributes have been pouring in for Swedish footballing legend Nils Liedholm, who captained Sweden at the 1958 World Cup finals and as a coach guided AC Milan and Roma to Serie A titles.
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National: 15 Oct 07
The 2007 Nobel prize season comes to a close on Monday with the announcement of the Economics Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Labrokes is tipping a Swedish professor to win.
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National: 11 Oct 07
The winner of the 2007 Nobel Literature Prize is to be announced on Thursday and while some are putting their money on US novelist Philip Roth, anything is possible as the Swedish Academy is keeping mum on its choice.
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Society: 22 Sep 07
Sweden's royal honours system has been labelled male-dominated and unrepresentative of society. The king's finest gold medal has only been awarded to three women - compared to 33 men - since he began dishing it out in 1973.
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Sport: 26 Aug 07
Sweden's Carolina Klüft successfully defended her heptathlon world title on Sunday, ending with 7,032 points and setting a new European record in the process.
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Sport: 22 Aug 07
Sweden's Olympic and world heptathlon gold medallist Carolina Klüft will be hoping the 2007 world championships are to be the beginning of a perfect end to her reign. Klüft plans to quit the seven-sport spectacle after the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
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Sport: 20 Aug 07
Football: Eriksson's flying start continues at Man City. Golf: Finn wins Scandinavian Masters. Athletics: Preview of Sweden's chances at the World Championships.
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Sport: 18 Jun 07
Golf: Niclas Fasth secures highest ever placing for a Swede at US Open. Football: Halmstad set the pace in the top division. Ice Hockey: Sundin pens one-year deal with Leafs.
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