You like sports, and you are not alone.

SAtW n°1 -- May 2011 -- 30 SEK -- www.sports aroundtheworld.com

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NEWS: Curling: Sweden in semi-finals of the World Cup, against France or Norway.

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Special File: Tour Skating

Ice Skating is a very popular sport in Sweden, so it is important to know some things

about it. Let’s see what it is!

What to know:

O Developed from a Dutch sport

O Practicable all around Stockholm, from

November to February.

O SSSK, the most important federation, was

founded in 1901. It counts 13.000 members.

O You can skate 1000km or more in a day, it is

very quick!

A few questions to: Per Alvfors, tour skating monitor at the SSSK (Stockholm Ice Skating Sailing and Touring Club)

SATW: What is the main interest of that sport? Why do Swedish people like it so much?

PA: Well, as you know, many people practice it, and the reason is very simple: you can easily practice! Stockholm is

built between a lake and the Baltic, so in winter the

frozen surface is very important, that is why in winter

you can skate almost everywhere.

SATW: What are the best spots to skate?

PA: Every place is good to visit, but the archipelago East from

the city is wonderful. Otherwise, you can do the trip from

North West to South East, it is a great experience.

To learn more…

Visit http://www.sssk.se/english/index.htm, the

SSSK site, where you can find some details about

the sport and the material needed.

One sport, one equipment: To practice tour skating, you need a little preparation. Of course, the first thing you

need is skates: they are sort of blades under shoes. Then, there are some essential security pieces of material: you

have to have two ice claws, in case you fall under ice, to come back on it. With this, you need a special suit, made

to protect you from cold water, and a floating aid. With this, a whistle to attract attention and a rescue rope are

used to throw you by the people you skate with: you can’t practice alone!

Stockholm

Some of the most

common ways used

to cross Stockholm

by the lake.

NEWS --- A new arena for the Stockholm football club Djurgården (DIF) is now near to be realized.-------- Robin

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PICTURE OF THE MONTH

André Myhrer won the bronze medal in the slalom world

championship.

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Swedish sport in numbers:

11 medals won by the Swedish Handball team

in The World Championship: 4 gold, 3 silver and 4

bronze medals.

6 gold medals won at the Ice Hockey World

Championship

5 consecutive wins at Wimbledon tournament

with Björn Borg

3 world records held by the Swedish in athletics

NEWS ----- P. Gilbert won the race « La Flèche Wallonne » , “he doesn’t realized what he did» said his director.

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Practical Guide: How to do sport in Stockholm?

As in each city, at the first sight, it looks to be hard to practice any sports in Stockholm. According to Ms Lokvist

“Apart from doing ice skating in the winter and running in the summer, it’s hard to let of stream”. You need some

sports? You are bored to be a catch potato? This feature is for you!!!

I want to do a little sport.

You don’t have a lot of time to spend to do

sport? You’re an executive in an enormous

company?

Some ways are offered to you, you can bike to

work, apart from the cold weather, Stockholm is a

wonderful city for this. About 100km of bike lanes

can lead you everywhere in city from the old Gamla

Stan to Broma. These are clean, well maintained

and will make you going faster to work. You can use

your own bike or hire one of the town bikes (1). In

addition to this, your rolls of flesh from the winter

are going to disappear! Isn’t life wonderful?

In winter, poorly, it’s hard to bike since there are 40

cm of snow everywhere. You then have two

possibilities, to waste hours every morning in traffic

jams or to ski trough the town to your workplace.

You can ski either on bike lanes (there shouldn’t be

a lot of bikes owing to the snow) either on roads

when you’re in Gamla stan for instance. Good Ski!!

The town bikes

(1): you can find more information on

www.citybikes.se

I want to become a professional player!

You know, it’s going to be hard. It doesn’t matter, we’ll give

you the keys to show you’re incredible talents to the world

(yes Sweden Got Talents ©) .

The first thing to do is to choose the sport you want to

practice, in Sweden you can easily access to a football club or

any sportive association, as the 20 % percent of Swedish who

belong to a sport club shows. If you want to do football, then

call The Swedish Football Association (1). It’s actually one of

the most popular sports in Sweden but national team is not

very successful in worldwide competitions. You want to win

world championships? Then join the Swedish Handball

Association (2), it has already won four world cups. You have

your chance. Once you have contacted the right association,

it’s easy to find a club in Stockholm, more than ones are

situated in.

Now you just have to practice, a lot, we hope to see you on TV

soon.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the most well-known Swedish football Player

(1)Join them at +46-8-735 09 00

(2)Join them at +46-8-699 60 00

Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the most well-known Swedish football Player