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The sixth annual Reykjavík International Games kicked off in Iceland’s capital on Friday and will run through January 27. At the games, around 350 foreign athletes from nearly 30 different countries will compete against more than 2,000 athletes from Iceland.
The games consist of competitions in 18 different sports, the latest additions being karate and taekwondo. Other sports include ice skating, team gymnastics, track and field, weight lifting, badminton, swimming, judo and bowling, as stated on ibr.is.
Many of Iceland’s foremost athletes will participate in the games, such as javelin thrower Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir, marathon runner Kári Steinn Karlsson and swimmer Jón Margeir Sverrisson, who won the gold at the 2012 London Paralymics.
The Reykjavík International Games are held by the Reykjavík Sports Union along with member unions of the Olympic and Sports Association of Iceland and several sponsors.
For further information, visit the games’ website.
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Four Icelandic contestants will participate in this year’s World Skills International, the world cup for industrial- and vocational subjects. The competition is held every other year.
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This year’s free English-language travel guide Around Iceland has been released, the 38th year in a row. The guide is also published in Icelandic and German and is distributed in 100,000 copies to the country’s most frequented tourist destinations.
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An international group of divers recently traveled to Þingvellir National Park in Southwest Iceland to explore this unique diving destination. A Polish guide, Michail Zinieuricz, who works for the DIVE.is, led the team of North Americans and a French couple.
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Iceland’s northernmost island is no longer one island. In a recent surveillance excursion to the Kolbeinsey, the Icelandic Coast Guard discovered that the island is now divided in two.
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The 2013 June-July issue of Iceland Review is out. Themed ‘We Are Young’ the magazine celebrates the arrival of summer by interviewing young energetic Icelanders who excel in art, sports, business and politics—and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, the youngest PM in the republic’s history and the world’s youngest ruling state leader. Click here to take a look at a selection of the current issue and here to subscribe to the magazine.
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