Norway's Thorkildsen Gave up the Day Job to Concentrate on Getting 90m.

  Olympic Beijing 2008 Champion and Olympic record holder, Andreas Thorkildsen of Norway gave up the "day job" in financial services two years ago to practice on his 90 metre shots.  Well, it has...

Men's Javelin: All Three Finns Through to the Final!

All three Finnish javelin throwers are through to the Finals on Saturday 23rd August.  They are:  Tero Pitkämäki , who finished third in today's qualifying round, Tero Järvenpää, fourth and Teemu...

Norway's Thorkildsen Qualifies for Men's Javelin Final

Norway's Thorkildsen has qualified!  (As expected!)  Latvia First  - Vasilevskis - 83.51,  Russia - Korotkov - Second - 83.33m and Pitkämäki Third - 82.61.  Thorkildsen managed...

Norway's Olympic Champion Andreas Thorkildsen Makes the Javelin Trendy

The winning 90m throw was with a red swirl-on-white javelin.  Of rival Tero Pitkamaki, Thorkildsen revealed, "Some days are his, some days are mine".  Today was all Thorkildsen's. "Beijing – “Some...

Finland's Javelin World Champion Pitkämäki Gears up for Encounter with Norw...

Scandinavian eyes will be on the Men's Javelin qualifying rounds tomorrow (Thursday 21st August 2008, Final: Friday 23rd August 2008, times below), when World Champion Finland's Tero Pitkämäki squares up to...