Saturday, March 12, 2011

Norwegian mens team donates to tsunami relief!

The Norwegian mens biathlon team of Ole Einar Bjorndalen, Alexander Os, Emil Svenson and Tarjei Boe had an exciting finishing lap to take the relay gold in Friday's race! It was a close finish with Russia 13 seconds behind and Ukraine 20 seconds behind. In thought of the tsunami that hit Japan the same day, the team donated 10 000 euros to the victims. A good example of how been a professional athlete can be more than self glory!

24 comments:

ed said...

wow thats really cool of them

GADAFINY said...

cool blog
following and supporting

BlowingInTheWind said...

Nice, its nice of them to support the cause!

Chris said...

Sweet stuff! Follwoing

Robert Fünf said...

I hope that money actually goes to help someone. (There's a lot of corruption in this world.)

Erika said...

It hurts to say but I completely agree with Robert above... =/

TheHarvester said...

great. i love it. the players of the german first bundesliga (soccer) donated for japan too

Unknown said...

thats great, more ppl should help the japanese right now

Altenfrost said...

This behavior should be disseminated. Thanks for info.

Choms1337 said...

cool blog nice psot ;)

Choms1337 said...

yeah very cool :)

G said...
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G said...

cool - following

Brut said...

Gotta love the Nords'!

Anonymous said...

Cool guys, that's very nice

Anonymous said...

wow that's really nice of them :D!

Raw said...

That's awesome of them to make a donation, it sets a really good example.
Close race too!

skinned sheep said...

thats very generous of them.

Zakk said...

love your blog, you have my support and I'll be following.

RootYourDroid.net said...

thanks for the update! wasn't able to catch it live so this is great to catch up on the events!

very touching that they are helping everyone in Japan, such a tragedy!

RootYourDroid.net said...

By the way, ever do any skiing in NY or MA?

Thats where I go, Gore Mountain, Jiminy Peak, Broady... The best feeling in the world is to be on the mountain!

I would love to train for it and compete like you! Very inspiring

T. Banacek said...

Those are certainly some Norwegian sounding names. Good for them.

Kicking Rocks said...

they did a great job!

Buzzy Lights said...

nice of them to do that!!!