everyday life

royal palace sprint

Ski event in heart of Stockholm yesterday. A Ski Cross Country World Cup event.

It's also the first day of spring and was freezing cold.

The guy in white is the Swedish skiier Teodor Peterson. This is a photo from the semi finals.

The guy in red, number 7 - Petter Northug, Norway won the race.

This was the first live sport event for the week, on Friday we have football - soccer-  to attend at Friends arena. Sweden vs Ireland in a World Cup qualifier and I will be there as well with some friends.

spank me with a cactus and call me sandy or zlat-trick, take zlat, zlat attack or o captain! my captain!*

The rave from the English media today to Zlatan Ibrahimovic amazing. The Swedish team, for which he is captain, was victorious against England football team yesterday. Swe - Eng 4-2. And Zlatan scored 4 times. Yesterday was the opening gala match of the new national football stadium. And I was there, of course. And it was a glorious night.

And the 4th goal is absolutly f*cking amazing: 

 

I can see this over and over again and it gives me chills.

The last 10 minutes was totaly crazy. 50.000 people gives Zlatan a standing ovation. The last minute filmed by me here.

Zlatan is no stranger to make crazy goal. Look at this one 2004 against Italy. Or this aganist Hungary 2005 or this one in June against France.

Enough said! Next post will resume to normal knitting activity.

*spank me with a cactus and call me sandy - is from the Suns live report of the match and zlat-trick, take zlat and zlat attack are headlines from some English newspapers. "O Captain! My Captain!" is an extended metaphor poem written in 1865 by Walt Whitman - but it's also a line in the end of the movie Dead Poets Society

it's over and i'm ok with that

The answer to yesterdays questions Heavan or Hell? became hell, a bit heaven and back to hell. We lost 3-2 to England. But 2-2 or 3-3 had been the most fair result. But it was a fun game to watch and I had I fab time with friends. Sweden has one match left to play, against France next week, but Euro2012 is over for Sweden. :-(

I lost my voice yesterday during the game, to much shouting.. But it's back, with a deeper rock'n roll touch.

During the last weeks football games on TV, I have been knitting on a shawl I began on my trip to Glasgow, january 2011. It has basically been in a bag since February 2011, when I realise I had to many stitches on the needles. When I picked it up again last Sunday my first thought was to rip it all up and start over. But I changed my mind and just knitted k2tog a couple of times and are now right back on track!

This will be a slow Saturday. Knitting, coffee at my local café. It's raining and I have no plans for this weekend. Maybe a movie later on.

heaven or hell? happy or sad?

Tonight in Euro 2012, the Swedish football team will play agaisnt England. Sweden lost the first game against Ukraine with 2-1, so tonight I want/I need a victory. It's a tough game. And Sweden did not play at it's best last time. I'm just hoping for the best!

On June 5th I saw the team play against Serbia in a friendly game at Råsunda stadium.And this one, they won 2-1.

So Heaven if the team wins, Hell if the team lose. Simple as that! I'm ready!

I will meet up with some friends and see the game at Arizona. Let's have a fab night with lots of joy and laughter. Go Sweden!

the cardi, progress

Up early this beautiful, but cold morning. Watching the classic ski event, Vasaloppet on the telly. This year marks the 88th year of this ski event. It's a race between Sälen and Mora and it's 90 kilometers long. For the ski stars it takes about just under 4 hours to ski 90 kilometers. For the regular Joe, between 6-10 hours. And it's 15.800 people who will ski today.

The start last year. Amazing to watch.

But I am not compeeting myself. I sit in the sofa watching and knitting. This year I knit om my Cardigan. My first try to knit a cardigan. And so far, it's working fine. And it start to look like a cardigan.

So far, so good. Will soon start on the body!

nhl premiere

Weekend of October 7 & 8 was the weekend of NHL hockey premiere. Yet again in Stockholm. And I was there, with my friend ACE. This year we had New York Rangers vs Anaheim Ducks. Rangers with Henrik Lundqvist & Mats Zucarello (from Norway) and Ducks with the finns Teemu Selänne & Saku Koivo. Apart from the big crowd of Swedes, there where also a lots of Finns in the arena, as well as Russians, Scots & Norweigans.

before the game

It was a quite entertaining game, intense and few goals. The crowd had Rangers as the favorite - huh, wonder why? ;-)

After 3 periods we had 1-1. After OT, still 1-1, so the game ended with a shoot off. 2 very good goalies but in the end Hiller won over Lundqvist... Still fun though! More pictures kan be found here.

i'm going

October 8 New York Rangers vs Anaheim Ducks.

 

no 21

Last week my colleauges and I visited the Historical Museum to see their new exhibition "History of Sweden" . And I think it's a great exhibition. My favorite item in this exhibition is this:

 
A hockey sweater worn in the Olympic final 2006 in Torino - a game Sweden won over Finland. The number on this one is 21 - Peter Forsberg.  And those of you who really knows me KNOWS me,knows my love for (in this case) hockey!  This window shows symbols of Sweden. Can you see the note sheet in the left corner - it's the original score of the Swedish National Anthem. And when this piece of paper is not showing itself in museums, you can find it in a archive box in "my " archive.

another victory for the boys

Spent a couple of hours at Råsunda football stadium, along with 32 300 others, last evening. Most of them happy Swedes. Sweden won 2-0 over Hungary and the happiest of them all was Pontus Wernbloom who scored both goals.

(photo taken not by me)

from left (standing): Olof Mellberg, Andreas Isaksson, Ola Toivonen, Johan Elmander, Daniel Majstorovic, Zlatan Ibrahimovic. from left (sitting): Mikael Lustig, Emir Bajrami, Pontus Wernbloom, Anders Svensson, Behrang Safari.

This was the first game of the Euro12 qualifier campaign - next game is on Tuesday in Malmö, Sweden plays against San Marino. I will watch the game on TV.

bronze - johan olsson, men's 50 km mass start classic, cross country

YES! The last day of the Olympics, and yet another medal to Sweden. A bronze medal to Johan Olsson, in the classic 50 km race! And it was the last medal for Sweden in this Olympic Games in Vancouver!