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athletics ani) sport (idrott).
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Trotting, too, is practised and is becoming widely spread. Several
trotting-clubs exist which arrange trotting-matches, which are, as a rule, held in the
winter, on the ice.
There are, thus, many forms of athletics and sport exercised in Sweden, the
principal of which have been mentioned above, and there is every reason to say
that athletics are rapidly attaining a very high degree of development.
The motor-car has almost entirely replaced the former horsed vehicles used
as conveyances in the capital, and it has also made its entrance into the
Swedish sporting world. The exceedingly severe winter-races arranged every year by
Kungl. Auto mobilklubb en (The Royal Automobile Club) have attained a great
reputation.
Aviation, too, has skilful representatives in Sweden, and the art is making
steady progress.
The Stadium, Stockholm.
The Northern Games, which are to purely winter sports what the Olympic
Games are to summer athletics, originated in Sweden. Their end is to represent,
and to hold competitions in, the numerous branches of sport and athletics that
are practised in Scandinavia during the winter. The first Northern Games
were held in 1901, in Stockholm. They lasted nine days and were a brilliant
sucess. Competitors came from the three Scandinavian countries, and from
Austria, England, Finland, Germany, and Holland. The programme included:
skating, ski-running, horse-racing over a course covered with deep snow, races
between men mounted on skis but drawn by horses or reindeer, trotting on the
ice, races between men mounted on "kicking-sledges" and drawn by horses,
ice-yachting and skate-sailing, hockey and curling on the ice, sleighing, torch-light
processions, trips on an ice-breaker in the Baltic, galarepresentations at the
Opera, with Swedish national dances, quartette-singing, etc.
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