Tore Strømøy is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 journalist

Journalist

A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

, television presenter and talk show host and former racewalker. He is best known for his talk show Tore på sporet

Tore på sporet

Tore på sporet is a long running talk show aired in Norway on NRK 1 in several seasons between 1996 and 2009. It is presented by former athlete and journalist Tore Strømøy ....

which he hosted for ten years between 1996 and 2006.

Strømøy qualified for the 50 km racewalk event at the 1980 Summer Olympics

1980 Summer Olympics

The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Moscow in the Soviet Union. In addition, the yachting events were held in Tallinn, and some of the preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football tournament...

, but could never enter the competition as Norway followed US suit and boycotted

American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics

The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott of the Moscow Olympics was a part of a package of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan...

the games.

Selected appearances

• Go'fot på låven (1992)
• På loffen (1994)
• Tett på (1995) TV Series
• Tore på sporet (1996 - 2006) TV Series
• Ja, vi elsker (1997) TV Series
• Lyden av lørdag (2007)