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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jon Henley Europe correspondent

‘Bigger than football’: Norway fans’ Viking row makes waves at World Cup

Norway fans perform the Viking row in the stands
Norway fans perform the Viking row in the stands during the group stage match against Senegal at New York New Jersey Stadium. Photograph: James Gill/Danehouse/Getty Images

The fans have done it, in their thousands, in the stadiums. The players have done it on the pitch. Pretty much anyone who was there did it in New York’s Times Square. Norwegian MPs did it in parliament.

Prince Sverre Magnus, third in line to the Norwegian throne, rowed in an Oslo subway carriage. Care home residents in their 90s rowed in rural Norway and Norwegian Royal Air Force pilots rowed in their F-35 fighter jets.

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