Norway’s revival, Charles Biétry and hiking’s rise, this week’s standout sports docs | OneFootball

Three sports documentaries stand out this week: a Netflix portrait of Norway, France’s World Cup foes in Boston on Friday at 21:00, a moving Charles Biétry podcast, and a France.tv hiking film.

L'Équipe highlights that the two-part La Norvège en reconquête captures a team fronted by Martin Odegaard and Erling Haaland, hungry after 26 years without a major tournament and 28 without a World Cup. It channels frustration and renewed hope.

Episode one rewinds to the 1990s, when Norway were FIFA’s number two in 1993 and 1995, reached two World Cups and beat Brazil 2-1 in 1998. PM Jonas Gahr Store says failing to qualify had become the norm.

Under Stale Solbakken, who survived a cardiac arrest in 2001, the camera follows a match-by-match push to 2026. Senior voices are heard, bar the taciturn Haaland, and heavy wins over Italy, 3-0 and 4-1, fuel belief.

TV host Oyvind Alsaker calls this perhaps Norway’s brightest generation, though late jeopardy is overstated. Next, Norway face France.

A Radio France podcast, Charles Biétry, son dernier match, runs four episodes. Nathalie Iannetta focuses on his ALS fight and end-of-life law campaign, with his voice recreated by AI, and it closes in laughter to Ray Charles’s Georgia on My Mind.

France.tv’s La randonnée, une affaire qui marche is a breezy 52 minutes across 230,000 kilometres of marked trails. Bag-transfer services broaden access, and the 5,000 kilometre GR 65 draws 500,000 walkers a year generating 300 million, while environmental warnings are sounded.

Source: L'Équipe