Norway Ski Team’s Sweater Gets Tangled in a Neo-Nazi Uproar


OSLO — Norway’s ruthlessly successful Alpine ski team is preparing for next month’s Winter Olympics with a punishing training regimen of slaloms, weights and ice baths. So you would think that choosing what knitted woolly sweater to wear would be the easy bit.

Designed at a time when public interest in Viking culture is experiencing a renaissance, the theme for Norway’s Alpine ski team uniforms this season is “the Attacking Viking,” a homage to the team’s nickname. But the sweater features a symbol known as the Tyr rune, which neo-Nazis want to claim as their own.

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