News Tagged with “Sport”

Iceland’s EURO Hopes Shattered in Budapest

The Rio 2016 Olympic Games get under way on Friday.

Icelandic cod powering Rio Olympic athletes

3 Aug 2016 Among the dishes to be served up in the athlete canteens at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games will be salted cod from Iceland.

Danish nationalists hit back at “ashamed” Icelanders

11 Jul 2016 Leader of the Danish far-right nationalist Party of the Danes Daniel Carsen has dropped a video on social media accusing Iceland of being ashamed of the fact that their national football team is “Icelandic”.

The word France shown in inverted commas.

Iceland FA slams far-right racist Euro 2016 image

7 Jul 2016 The Football Association of Iceland (KSÍ) has condemned the unauthorised use of a photograph of an Icelandic player on a race-related image published by a Danish far-right nationalist political party.

Can Iceland beat France for the first time ever?

Euro 2016: Iceland have never beaten France

28 Jun 2016 As the dust settles in Nice, the so-far invincible blue army makes its way up to Paris ahead of Sunday’s quarter-final clash against hosts France.