during the week of the emg a number of sporting events were held that were associated with the emg, but that had their own organisa-tions and application systems. these were an invitation competition for fencing, an international football match for “old boys” between the danish european champions from 1992 and the swedish team that finished third in the 1994 world cup at malmö ip, the christian-loppet race (an open cycling race between helsingborg and malmö) and an open half marathon.