Trondheim, Norway - World Cup leader Petra Majdic of Slovenia put in an awesome finish on Saturday to win a women's 30-kilometres cross-country ski race.

Majdic trailed by more than 30 seconds after two thirds of the race, but caught up with the leaders in the closing stages and then skied away from the discipline's world champion Justyna Kowalczyk of Poland to win the classic style event in 1 hour 25 minutes 22.2 seconds.

Lillehammer, Norway  - Finland's Harri Olli on Friday proved too strong for the rest of the field as he won the World Cup event at the Norwegian venue of Lillehammer.

Olli soared to leaps of 135.5 and 142.0 metres, for a total of 288.7 points, beating Dimitry Vassiljev into second place. The Russian, who was leading after the first round of jumps, finished on 275.2 points.

Oslo - Sales of military trucks to Myanmar was Friday cited as the reason Norway's state pension fund removed Chinese company, Dongfeng Motor Group Co Ltd, from its list of assets.

"We cannot finance companies that support the military dictatorship in Burma through the sale of military materials," Finance Minister Kristin Halvorsen said in a statement.

Trondheim, Norway - Ola Vigen Hattestad won the men's sprint over 1.6 kilometres in a Norwegian clean sweep of the podium places before home fans in Trondheim on Thursday.

Hattestad finished in 3 minutes 16.7 seconds, edging Petter Northug by 0.5 seconds and Johan Kristian Dahl by 0.7 seconds.

With six races remaining of the World Cup season, Dario Cologna of Switzerland continues to lead on 1,006 points ahead of Northug (952) and Ola Vigen Hattestad (760).

Oslo  - Norwegia