The president of the Norwegian Football Federation (NFF) launched an impassioned defence of Video Assistant Referees (VAR) on Wednesday after clubs voted to scrap it last week.

The Norwegian Football Federation says it is in favour of keeping the video assistant referee despite strong opposition from clubs and fans.

Leaders of the Norwegian Football Federation (NFF) on Wednesday recommended to continue with the VAR review system, a few days after clubs voted for the technology to be scrapped. An NFF statement said that its board recommends retaining and further developing the Video Assistant Referee technology in Norwegian football in a a cost-effective manner.

Norway's $1.8 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, reported on Wednesday a record annual profit of 2.51 trillion crowns ($222 billion), driven by last year's tech rally.

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund was underweight on US tech stocks last year, a move that hit 2024 returns but may have helped it weather recent turmoil caused by the challenge posed by Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek.

Norway's Timon Haugan prevented Manuel Feller and Fabio Gstrein from a 1-2 podium for Austria by winning the men's World Cup slalom in Schladming, Austria with a combined time of 1:48.05.

Norwegian skier Timon Haugan claimed the fourth World Cup win of his career with victory in the slalom at Schladming on Wednesday. "It's so crazy, it's by far my greatest victory," Haugan said.

Norway’s Jarl Magnus Riiber, who owns a Nordic combined record 76 individual World Cup wins, announced he will retire at the end of this season, one year before the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

Nordic combined great Jarl Magnus Riiber is calling it a career. The 27-year-old Norwegian plans to retire in March.

Norway’s Jarl Magnus Riiber, the most successful Nordic combined athlete of all time, has announced he will retire at the end of the season and will not compete at next year’s Milan-Cortina Games. Riiber,