Frederick Carlton "Carl" Lewis, retired American track and field athlete and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, at the opening ceremony of the Bislett games.

The ExxonMobil Bislett Games in Oslo were accompanied by a protest from Greenpeace against the main sponsor, which is about to do the most extreme and dangerous Arctic oil drilling yet.

27 activists from 12 nationalities took part in the protest, where they also handed out information to the audience about ExxonMobil's dirty drill plans. Bislett Games attendees, along with Arctic supporters all over the world, were encouraged to take selfies with the hashtag #NoArcticOil and #SavetheArctic, to give a clear message to the Games' dirty sponsor. Hundreds of people took to social media to make sure Exxon's dirty plans do not remain secret.