Sport news in brief (Dec 28-Jan 3)

Fatherly advice
National coach Morten Olsen has advised Christian Eriksen to remain at Ajax for the rest of the season, despite hefty interest from bigger league clubs. Olsen, who likes to advise his players, contended that Eriksen, 20, would benefit by staying to play in the Europa League and for the Dutch Eredivisie title. Eriksen has contributed four league goals so far this season, and Ajax sit three points behind joint the league leaders, PSV and Twente. 

Gade bids farewell
Peter Gade ended his career in front of friends and royalty last week on Thursday night as one of his sport’s all-time greats by beating eternal arch-nemesis Lin Dan 20-22, 21-16, 21-14 in a farewell exhibition match at the Copenhagen Masters. Gade’s 16-year career included 24 Grand Prix wins, five World Championship medals, 10 Copenhagen Masters triumphs, an All-England victory and a stint as the world’s top-ranked player.

Sehr gut, Leon
Despite suffering another serious injury and only playing ten matches this season, Danish midfielder Leon Andersen has been voted the player of the year at his German club, Hannover 96. The unlucky Andersen, who had only just returned from lengthy spell out before once again succumbing to a knee injury, received the most votes by the readers of the local newspaper, Hannoversche Allgemeine

Not exactly stellar
Caroline Wozniacki finished 2012 on a disappointing note by committing 38 unprovoked errors and falling to a player ranked almost 100 places below her at the Brisbane International tournament last week. After Wozniacki, who was sporting her new Stella McCartney outfit, won the first set 6-2, Ksenia Pervak from Kazakhstan took control and sent the Dane tumbling from the tournament 2-6, 6-3, 7-6.

Ladies take kabbadi bronze
The Danish women's kabbadi team finished third in the World Cup in India after beating England 19-16. But while the ladies celebrated a famous bronze in what was their debut in the tournament, the men’s side were ousted in the group stages. The sport is immensely popular in India, Pakistan and Iran, and few were surprised to see India, the hosts and defending champions, win both the men’s and women’s finals. 

Raising Arizona roofs
Jonathan Gilling, a 2.04-metre sophomore forward for Arizona State, has been putting up solid numbers on the US college basketball scene over the past weeks, including a 18-point, 12-rebound performance against Texas Tech in late December. Gilling, who hails from Rungsted Kyst, continues to impress after breaking onto the college scene last year. Meanwhile, his sister, Mathilde, is a 1.92-metre freshman that balls for the University of Washington. 

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  • Chinese wind turbine companies sign pact to end race-to-the-bottom price war

    Chinese wind turbine companies sign pact to end race-to-the-bottom price war

    China’s 12 leading wind turbine makers have signed a pact to end a domestic price war that has seen turbines sold at below cost price in a race to corner the market and which has compromised quality and earnings in the sector.

  • Watch Novo Nordisk’s billion-kroner musical TV ad for Wegovy

    Watch Novo Nordisk’s billion-kroner musical TV ad for Wegovy

    Novo Nordisk’s TV commercial for the slimming drug Wegovy has been shown roughly 32,000 times and reached 8.8 billion US viewers since June.

  • Retention is the new attraction

    Retention is the new attraction

    Many people every year choose to move to Denmark and Denmark in turn spends a lot of money to attract and retain this international talent. Are they staying though? If they leave, do they go home or elsewhere? Looking at raw figures, we can see that Denmark is gradually becoming more international but not everyone is staying. 

  • Defence Minister: Great international interest in Danish military technology

    Defence Minister: Great international interest in Danish military technology

    Denmark’s Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen attended the Association of the Unites States Army’s annual expo in Washington DC from 14 to 16 October, together with some 20 Danish leading defence companies, where he says Danish drone technology attracted significant attention.

  • Doctors request opioids in smaller packs as over-prescription wakes abuse concerns

    Doctors request opioids in smaller packs as over-prescription wakes abuse concerns

    Doctors, pharmacies and politicians have voiced concern that the pharmaceutical industry’s inability to supply opioid prescriptions in smaller packets, and the resulting over-prescription of addictive morphine pills, could spur levels of opioid abuse in Denmark.

  • Housing in Copenhagen – it runs in the family

    Housing in Copenhagen – it runs in the family

    Residents of cooperative housing associations in Copenhagen and in Frederiksberg distribute vacant housing to their own family members to a large extent. More than one in six residents have either parents, siblings, adult children or other close family living in the same cooperative housing association.

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  • Come and join us at Citizens Days!

    Come and join us at Citizens Days!

    On Friday 27 and Saturday 28 of September, The Copenhagen Post will be at International Citizen Days in Øksnehallen on Vesterbro, Copenhagen. Admission is free and thousands of internationals are expected to attend

  • Diversifying the Nordics: How a Nigerian economist became a beacon for inclusivity in Scandinavia

    Diversifying the Nordics: How a Nigerian economist became a beacon for inclusivity in Scandinavia

    Chisom Udeze, the founder of Diversify – a global organization that works at the intersection of inclusion, democracy, freedom, climate sustainability, justice, and belonging – shares how struggling to find a community in Norway motivated her to build a Nordic-wide professional network. We also hear from Dr. Poornima Luthra, Associate Professor at CBS, about how to address bias in the workplace.

  • Lolland Municipality launches support package for accompanying spouses

    Lolland Municipality launches support package for accompanying spouses

    Lolland Municipality, home to Denmark’s largest infrastructure project – the Fehmarnbelt tunnel connection to Germany – has launched a new jobseeker support package for the accompanying partners of international employees in the area. The job-to-partner package offers free tailored sessions on finding a job and starting a personal business.

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