For your information I am proud to tell you that Magnus won the title "Best
Sportsman of the year in Norway" !

Not much sport going on there anyway 😛

Originally posted by heinzkat
Not much sport going on there anyway 😛

curling!

I thought the Norwegians loved their cross country skiing and ski jumping.

I would just like to note that I have never seen Magnus and Jason Bourne in the same room together.

This kind of thing is good. It raises the profile of Chess.

We would never see a British Chess player winning sportman of the year.

I remember in 1997 when an opportunity arose for the (New Labour) minister for Sport, a certain 'Tony Banks' (for it was he), to officially recognise Chess as a sport in U.K.
Had he endorsed it, with government funding things could of been very different?
Although the football player Ryan Giggs becoming Sports Personallity of the year ahead of Formula One driver Jenson Button maybe not.😕

Did you hear of the ice fisherman who got hit with the zamboni?

Originally posted by National Master Dale
Did you hear of the ice fisherman who got hit with the zamboni?

Originally posted by heinzkat
Rec'd

A 'zamboni'?......how absorbing......oh, do tell me more.

Originally posted by Eladar
I thought the Norwegians loved their cross country skiing and ski jumping.

Originally posted by greenpawn34
This kind of thing is good. It raises the profile of Chess.

We would never see a British Chess player winning sportman of the year.