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	Bislett Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bislett Games is an annual track and field event at the Bislett stadion in Oslo, Norway that takes place on June 2 as the first meeting of the IAAF Golden League.
		Arne Haukvik was the founder the games in 1965, a former politician and director of the meeting, who used to invite the athletes, sponsors and the press to his home for his traditional “strawberry party” the day before the event each year.
		The Bislett Stadion was used for speed skating events at the Olympics, but nowadays it has better known for its Bislett Games athletics meeting.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bislett_Games (322 words)

	ExxonMObil sponsors Bislett Games
		A new agreement between ExxonMobil and the Bislett Alliance - consisting of the athletic clubs, BUL, Vidar and Tjalve – was signed during a press conference in Oslo on Wednesday 20 April.
		It is the 18th time ExxonMobil sponsors Bislett Games, being a major contributor to this prestigous Golden League arrangement in Oslo.
		The Golden League arrangement on the New Bislett Stadium is an important sports event in Norway, contributing substantially to the interest for athletics in the Oslo area as well as in all of Norway.
	www.exxonmobil.com /Norway-English/PA/News/NO_Press_bislettgameseng.asp (240 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner News - Powell for Bislett Games - Monday \| April 24, 2006
		Powell announced Friday evening that he would compete in the Bislett Games on Friday June 2, the IAAF has declared on its website.
		The 23-year-old Powell set the world record for the men's 100 metres of 9.77 seconds in Athens on June 14 last year, but had a torrid time in the remainder of last season with injury.
		He clocked a comfortable world-leading 10.03 seconds for his first major win at an international games and he also ran a sizzling final leg that took Jamaica to the gold medal in the men's 4X100 metre relay.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20060424/sports/sports7.html (190 words)

	ESPN.com - Bislett Games founder Haukvik dies
		OSLO, Norway -- Arne Haukvik, the founder of track and field's Bislett Games, died Wednesday of cancer at age 76.
		Haukvik was the meet director of the Bislett Games from 1966-85.
		Haukvik continued to support the Bislett games, never missing a meet.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1421014&type=news (145 words)

	Bislett Games
		But one of the highlights of the trip was going to the Bislett Games.
		I had long dreamed of running in the meet but those dreams were dashed years ago when I found out I really wasn’t fast enough in the 10,000 meter run (the longest event on the track).
		The highlight of the meet, to me, was watching Alan Webb, former Reston-area high school wunderkind, close in on the American record in the mile (he ran 3:48.92 and finished fourth although new American transplant Bernard Lagat finished ahead of him).
	www.user.shentel.net /stickman/0508Bislett.htm (1105 words)

	Haile G's new 10000 record teaches us about PR setting
		Bislett Games 1997: Haile G. regains the 10k record, and provides us a template for our PR attempts on the way.
		What I learned was that Bislett was the place where the best runners ran their best races, flying around the track, propelled with the power of 18,000 fans cheering them on, every single step.
		When you have been in the game a while, breaking your own record by 30 seconds is generally a fantasy unless you were previously undertrained.
	home.hia.no /~stephens/hg10kwr.htm (1802 words)

	Sports heroes head back to Bislett - Aftenposten.no
		Organizers of the first "Bislett Games at the New Bislett" are inviting many of the athletes who set records at the old stadium to return for a reunion.
		This photo was taken at Bislett in 1976, of the young Grete Andersen after she set a new world record in the 3,000-meter event.
		Roger Moens of Belgium, who set a world record in the 800-meter dash at Bislett in 1955, is expected to be the oldest in attendance at the reunion, which also will attract Sebastian Coe and Steve Cram of Britain.
	www.aftenposten.no /english/sports/article1069753.ece (460 words)

	USATF News & Notes - 7/28/00
		American Suzy Favor Hamilton destroyed one of the strongest fields outside of the Olympics on Friday at the Bislett Games in Oslo, Norway, winning the 1,500 meters in 3 minutes 57.40 seconds.
		Ramon Clay was second in the 200 (20.32 to Ato Boldon's 20.26), Greg Saddler won Race 2 of the 100m and finished second in the combined results (10.10), and Chryste Gaines, third at the Olympic Trials, was third in the 100 at Bislett in 11.27 seconds.
		The Bislett Games are scheduled to be broadcast Friday, July 28, from 7:30-9 p.m.
	www.usatf.org /news/nn072800.htm (724 words)

	Ato Boldon
		Driven by an innate desire to be the best, Ato has proven time and time again that he is the sprinter to beat, being the owner of four Olympic medals, two in the 2001 Sydney Olympics and two in the '97 Atlanta Olympics.
		In addition he is the '97 200m World Champion and 1998 100m Commonwealth Games Champion.
		At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Ato proved himself again with a sliver medal in the 100-meters and a bronze medal in the 200-meters.
	www.hsi.net /bios/biotext/Text_Ato.html (534 words)

	Track & Field News: Americans Tune up for Helsinki at Exxon Mobil Bislett Games
		American women swept the high jump, Sandra Glover posted a hurdles win, and middle-distance personal bests were the order of the evening Friday at the Exxon Mobil Bislett Games in Oslo, Norway.
		Bislett is the final meet of the TDK Golden League prior to the 2005 World Championships in Athletics, August 6-14 in Helsinki, Finland.
		Americans had a strong showing in the classic event of Bislett, the men's mile, with Bernard Lagat placing second in 3:48.38 and Alan Webb fourth in a personal-best 3:48.92 (previous PR 3:50.83, 2004).
	www.trackandfieldnews.com /tfn/displayArticle.jsp?id=4619 (706 words)

	Community Professional Loudspeakers
		Because Bislett is such a treasured structure in the region for its history and nostalgia, the decision was made to reproduce the new stadium in the shape and form of the original.
		The Bislett Games, one of six IAAF Golden League events, commemorated the opening in July 2005.
		In the end, the new building was so true to the design of the original that, at the opening for the Bislett Games, some locals were heard questioning whether it was a refurbishment or an entirely new building.
	www.community.chester.pa.us /main/index.php?option=news&task=viewarticle&sid=134&PHPSESSID=3c16654000bea4efb938d56207d4076c (345 words)

	IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - Golden League 2003 - News
		Oslo, Norway — The famous Strawberry Party on the day before the annual Exxon Mobil Bislett Games always sets the scene for the IAAF Golden League meeting, and this year was no different, as the illustrious past and present and future were honoured.
		The Exxon Mobil Bislett Games intends to leave the old stadium with a bang, and as the IAAF World Rankings show it has attracted the form athletes for the first Golden League meeting of the season.
		The women’s 100m should be special, with double Commonwealth gold medallist Debbie Ferguson racing the American sprint sensation Kelli White, who embarks on her European tour in Oslo on the back of a double sprint win at the US nationals just a week ago.
	www.iaaf.org /GLE03/news/Kind=2/newsId=21603.html (1342 words)

	Athletics Australia - News & Media - News Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This years Oslo, Bislett Games will be the final meet to be staged in this most famous of all European track and field stadiums.
		The Bislett stadium will hold its last meeting on June 27th (the first IAAF Golden League event of the 2003 season).
		The Bislett stadium and the Bislett Games have become synonymous with world records, apparently some sixty one occasions new World Records have been established in this quaint stadium.
	www.athletics.org.au /news/details.cfm?ObjectID=1651 (763 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Athletics \| Dreaming of the Dream Mile
		So Friday's Golden League meeting in Oslo was the last event ever held at the old Bislett Stadium, and it marks the end of an era.
		The crowd, packed in like sardines on those steep terraces, were banging on the hoardings as they leaned over towards the track.
		Bislett, for all sorts of reasons, needs to change if it is going to keep attracting big events.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/athletics/3020398.stm (468 words)

	TRACK-Bislett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		OSLO (AP) - France's Christine Arron won her third straight 100-metre race in the Golden League on Friday at the Bislett Games to stay in contention for the $1-million US jackpot.
		The jackpot is awarded to any athlete who wins their discipline at each of the six Golden League meets and then also competes at the World Athletics Final.
		The new Bislett Stadium, an all-seat venue with eight lanes, was built in one year to replace the old stadium, which opened in the early 1920s and also hosted Olympic speed skating during the 1952 Winter Olympics.
	www.recorder.ca /cp/Sports/050729/s072995A.html (447 words)

	Active.com - Marion's husband, C.J. Hunter under suspicion of doping (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		IOC drug chief Prince Alexandre de Merode said Monday that an athlete tested positive for the steroid nandrolone at the Bislett Games in Oslo, Norway, in late July.
		He said the IOC was not told the name of the athlete or the nationality involved.
		He said he didn't recall the names of the athletes, but that some may have won medals during the games.
	www.active.com /story.cfm?story_id=4974&sidebar=491&category=olympics_2000_track_field (420 words)

	CNN/SI - Athletics - Jones wins 200 meters at Bislett Games - Wednesday June 30, 1999 06:00 PM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Posted: Wednesday June 30, 1999 06:00 PM German Tanja Damaske's throw of 65.47 meters was the best of the year in the women's javelin.
		OSLO, Norway (AP) -- American star Marion Jones began her quest for the $1 million Golden League jackpot Wednesday, winning the 200 meters in the Bislett Games with a time of 22.13 seconds.
		Jones won both her two previous 100-meter races at Bislett, the storied athletics venue where 51 world record have been broken since 1924.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /athletics/news/1999/06/30/bislett_games (607 words)

	Iona College Men's Cross Country/Track and Field: KIPLAGAT TO RUN IN PRESTIGIOUS WANAMAKER MILE
		In addition to his accolades at the Millrose Games, Lagat was a three-time NCAA champion at Washington State University and earned a silver medal in the 2004 Olympics in the 1,500-meter event.
		Elkanah Angwenyi, another runner that hails from Kenya, was recently the indivdual champion at the Boston Indoor Games and ran a time of 3:55.95 in the mile event.
		The Millrose Games began in 1908 at a local armory the same year its parent, the Millrose Athletic Association, was formed as a recreational club by the employees of the John Wanamaker Department Store.
	www.iona.edu /gaels/story.cfm?id=2478 (918 words)

	Hattestad breaks women's javelin world record
		Hattestad broke the women's javelin world record Friday at the Bislett Games with a throw of 227 feet, 11 inches.
		Today it was my chance to give Bislett a world record and I did.
		El Guerrouj was hoping to capitalize on Bislett's propensity for records, too, but was more than 3 seconds slow in his attempt to break his record in the mile.
	www.canoe.ca /TrackArchive/jul28_hat.html (450 words)

	ESPN.com: OLY - U.S. 100-meter champ White second at Bislett Games
		OSLO, Norway -- Kelli White finished second in the 100 meters Friday at the Bislett Games, a week after winning the event at the U.S. track and field championships.
		Running in her first European meet of the season, White finished in 10.97 seconds while winner Chandra Sturrup of the Bahamas finished in 10.96.
		The Bislett Games start the Golden League series, and athletes who win the same event in each of the six meets will share a $1 million jackpot.
	espn.go.com /oly/news/2003/0627/1573860.html (272 words)

	Bislett Games slam door on Jones, Monty - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Organisers of the Golden League meet said the five-time Olympic medallist and her partner Tim Montgomery were not welcome.
		Five-time Olympic medallist Marion Jones and her partner Tim Montgomery are not welcome at the Golden League Bislett Games in Norway in June, organisers told Swedish daily Goeteborgs-Posten.
		The Bislett Games, normally held in Oslo but this year moved to the western town of Bergen as the Oslo arena is being remodeled, are part of the Golden League series where athletes who win their event at all six meetings win a one million dollar jackpot.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/may302004/sp9.asp (432 words)

	IOC drug czar accuses U.S. Track and Field of steroid-use cover-up
		De Merode said the out-of-competition results were found in files at the committee's Swiss headquarters after the IAAF said Sunday night that Hunter had flunked the Bislett test.
		He said the IOC had become curious about similar findings it received during the summer as part of the lab accreditation process, although it had no reason to check the identity of the athlete at that time.
		The Bislett Games were held July 28, with Hunter finishing second.
	autos.rockymountainnews.com /olympics/0926cj3.shtml (593 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Glory at Games — and scandal
		At a packed news conference in a downtown Sydney hotel, the normally gruff 330-pound shot putter nearly broke down several times as he said he didn't know why he had tested positive at the Bislett Games in Oslo, Norway, on July 28.
		The games have survived a genuine disaster — Munich in 1972, when terrorists executed 11 Israeli athletes at the Summer Games.
		The Romanian team doctor who gave Raducan the drug was expelled from the games and suspended through the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake and 2004 Summer Games in Athens.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,195016992,00.html (1379 words)

	Sports Features Communications - Press Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		No fewer than 30 gold medallists from either the Olympic Games or the World Championships will take centre stage at Fana Stadium, not to mention a host of winners from the European Championships, World Cup and World Junior Championships.
		The evening promises a collection of fast times, extraordinary distances and enthralling head to head clashes worthy of the marvellous traditions of the Bislett Games.
		More previews of the Evergood Bergen Bislett Games will be published next week.
	www.sportsfeatures.com /PressPoint/show.php?id=8800 (355 words)

	Powell signs up for Bislett - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		But now the Commonwealth Games gold medallist is fully recovered from that tear, and has already been very active this year - running seven relay race legs (4 x 100 and 4 x 400), an individual 400m, and five 100m races which included four rounds at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, last month.
		At those Games, Powell won the 100m with some ease on March 20.
		According to the report, Powell will no doubt be hoping to run a lot swifter at the Bislett Games, with the Oslo stadium record of 9.84 seconds the most obvious goal in his sights at this historic annual fixture in the IAAF Golden League season.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /sports/html/20060422T000000-0500_103109_OBS_POWELL_SIGNS_UP_FOR_BISLETT_.asp (304 words)

	World-Track:: Lewis-Francis optimistic about season after first European appearance
		Lewis-Francis, who was disqualified from the 100 metres semi-final at this year's Commonwealth Games, is the fastest British sprinter so far this season with a time of 10.20 and he expressed delight with his first European performance for year, after moving to the train in the warm weather on U.S. soil.
		Apart from Lewis-Francis, Jason Gardener, a former World and European indoor 60m champion and Marlon Devonish, the 2002 Commonwealth Games 200m silver, who were all members of the surprised British 2004 Athens Olympic Games 4x100m relay team, also failed to make an impression in Oslo on Friday.
		He his next scheduled to run at the Grand Prix in Gateshead on June 11, a meet in which co-world record holder Asafa Powell of Jamaica is the headliner after American Justin Gatlin withdrew from the event.
	www.world-track.org /KIND0006/lewisfrancis093489349.htm (594 words)

	ABC Sport - Athletics - Mottram on track for Comm Games
		World championships medallist Craig Mottram says he is satisfied with his preparations so far for the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne next March.
		The 25-year-old, who is coached by Nic Bideau, won bronze in the men's 5,000 metres at the world championships in Helsinki in August and he set a new national record for the mile at the Bislett Games in Oslo the previous month.
		Meanwhile, Athletics Australia (AA) is confident of attracting a strong international field for the IAAF Grand Prix meet to be held at Melbourne's Olympic Park on March 9.
	www.abc.net.au /sport/content/200511/s1519389.htm (374 words)

	SignOn San Diego Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics -- IOC leaders rip Hunter, United States on drugs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		These included two out-of-competition tests -- in Milan, Italy, and Oslo, Norway, and two in-competition tests -- at the Bislett Games in Oslo on July 28, and the Weltklasse Grand Prix meet in Zurich, Switzerland, on Aug. 11.
		Ljungqvist said Hunter's Bislett Games sample had a concentration of nandrolone that was 2,000 nanograms per milliliter of urine -- 1,000 times over the permitted level.
		Ljungqvist said Hunter will be investigated only for the Bislett Games test because that lab result was the first to reach the IAAF.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/olympics/20000926-991758-oly-ioc-drug.html (1110 words)

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