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Oslo - The Norwegian Football Association has extended coach Egil "Drillo" Olsen's current contract through the ongoing World Cup qualifications, reports said Tuesday.
Olsen led Norway to the 1994 and 1998 World Cups, and was praised after Norway upset Germany 1-0 in a recent friendly. The victory ended a year-long winless drought.
The 66-year-old was called in as caretaker after Age Hareide left, but has succeeded in generating a new spirit in the Norwegian team although Norway lost a recent friendly away to South Africa.
Johannesburg - World Cup hosts South Africa scored a morale-boosting 2-1 victory against under-strength Norway in an international football friendly on Saturday.
Substitute Siphiwe Tshabalala gave Bafana Bafana an injury-time winner in Rustenburg.
The game played as the annual Nelson Mandela Challenge, and marked the re-opening of the Royal Bafokeng Stadium, which has been upgraded for this year's Confederations Cup and next year's World Cup.
Oslo - Russian-born Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov of France was Thursday named winner of the Abel Prize, sometimes known as the "Nobel Prize for mathematics."
Gromov was cited for "his revolutionary contributions to geometry."
The 65-year-old Gromov became a French citizen in 1992 and is a professor at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques at Bures- sur-Yvette, France.
Oslo - The Norwegian central bank on Wednesday lowered its lead rate a further 0.50 percentage points to 2.00 per cent, as part of attempts to reduce the impact of the weakened global economy on Norway.
The new cut takes effect Thursday, the central bank said.
Norges Bank deputy governor Jan F Qvigstad said in a statement that "the outlook for the global economy has deteriorated."
Trondheim, Norway - Record winner Ole Einar Bjoerndalen of Norway won the men's 12.5-km pursuit race before home fans in Trondheim Saturday to increase his overall biathlon World Cup lead.
The 35-year-old veteran missed the target twice on his way to victory in 33 minutes 36.3 seconds, finishing 25.1 seconds ahead of Austria's Simon Eder and 25.3 seconds up on Poland's Tomasz Sikora.
With four events left, Bjoerndalen has 864 points, with Sikora on 828 and Russia's Maxim Tchoudov on 709.
Oslo - The Norwegian Football Association has extended coach Egil "Drillo" Olsen's current contract through the ongoing World Cup qualifications, reports said Tuesday.
Johannesburg - World Cup hosts South Africa scored a morale-boosting 2-1 victory against under-strength Norway in an international football friendly on Saturday.
Oslo - Russian-born Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov of France was Thursday named winner of the Abel Prize, sometimes known as the "Nobel Prize for mathematics."
Oslo - The Norwegian central bank on Wednesday lowered its lead rate a further 0.50 percentage points to 2.00 per cent, as part of attempts to reduce the impact of the weakened global economy on Norway.
Trondheim, Norway - Ole Einar Bjoernd
Trondheim, Norway - Record winner Ole Einar Bjoerndalen of Norway won the men's 12.5-km pursuit race before home fans in Trondheim Saturday to increase his overall biathlon World Cup lead.
