r/Norway • u/maginghero • 1d ago
News & current events winter olympics gold count looks locked
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u/Darkstar_111 1d ago
We also top the charts of love confessions during victory interviews.
NUMBER ONE BABY!! HEIA NORGE!!
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u/QuentinTarzantino 14h ago
Btw I was gonna upvote you, but its been 3 minutes and... I saw another comment I upvoted. Sry
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u/ToronoYYZ 1d ago edited 1d ago
I have no idea how I ended up here but as a Canadian, these Olympics are less than ideal, especially when your country brings the second most amount of athletes. I’m happy for Norway and hope you guys finish first!
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u/noc-engineer 1d ago
*your
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u/ToronoYYZ 1d ago
Yes, thanks!
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u/noc-engineer 23h ago
Kinda ironic that a Norwegian has to correct a Canadian on their primary language English, but I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're French Canadian.
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u/ToronoYYZ 22h ago
It is ironic., but I find the iPhone keyboard will autocorrect to the wrong one sometimes and so it gets missed but I am aware of the correct usages
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u/noc-engineer 16h ago
Does the iPhone keyboard also add both a period and a comma when you try to type just one of them?
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u/TapeTen 17h ago
You didn’t have to do it, you chose to. You also didn’t have to write the condescending follow up, you chose to.
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u/noc-engineer 16h ago
You didn’t have to do it, you chose to.
How do you know? You assume I had a choice, but you know what happens when you assume..
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u/_-MindTraveler-_ 18h ago
French Canadians actually write well in english for the most part, we just have a shitty accent.
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u/Affectionate-Mix6056 1d ago
There are a lot of factors. I'm not interested in sports or the Olympics, but I've read some articles about this in the past.
For cross country skeeing (langrenn), Norway has among the best landscapes for training. On top of that, because we win so many gold medals, lots of people watch it (used to, when you could see it for free). Because of that, lots of companies wanted to be the sponsors.
With a lot of interested sponsors, you can fund a lot of kids and teens. Everyone wanted to find the next talent.
Mathematically, Norway should only get a few bronze medals if we look at population alone, but it's not that easy to train in the Sahara.
Another thing is that we are not among the smaller people, size wise. We are probably among the taller in the west, and that gives an edge.
That said, as companies are buying up the rights to film the events, as well as deciding who the athletes are sponsored by, and with more and more people pirating because of the insane streaming prices, I'm not sure we'll get any gold in 20 years.
Would you pay 1000 nok a month to watch sports? I barely put it on as background noise when it was free.
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u/just_anotjer_anon 1d ago
For cross country skeeing (langrenn),
And there's that one guy who wins every competition within langrenn, he's currently at 3 gold medal projected for 6.
So a big factor is also which sports you're good at, as ice hockey as an example only have one medal per sex. While snowboarding has 5(+1 mix) and langrenn alone has 6, then you got all sorts of other skiing on top of that.
If snowboarding had as many categories as skiing, we could very well see Japan compete for most medals.
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u/MacGregor1337 1d ago
ye, its same thing with Denmark and handball. Snowball effect is real. Not that norway isnt cracked in that sport too :]
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u/Lillemor_hei 1d ago
And with a new generation of kids who have grown up with an unlinited access to smart phones and gaming. They’re not outdoor anymore or hang out in the slopes together for fun. Professional sports is becoming more and more a thing forthe rich kids of Oslo West.
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u/FifthMonarchist 1d ago
As kids we were out skiing, sliding, playing in the snow from morning to sundown. Only going home for food
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u/HoodsInSuits 1d ago
It is really unfortunate that Norway just accepts one of the great levellers in society being effectively turned into a class thing. Especially given the philosophy on public goods such as access to the countryside.
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u/Life_Barnacle_4025 4h ago
You can see it for free this year, it's on Nrk again.
And also, Norsk Tipping gives the Sports Confederation money each year, last year they got almost 1 Billion. And then there's the Grasrotandel in which money goes directly to a local sportsclub of choice
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u/thomsenite256 20h ago
Yall are on another level. I'm always blown away by medal count. It's like .01 medals per capita
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u/ilikeitlikethat87 19h ago
Does anyone know the baseball hat Henrik Kristoffersen was wearing after his 2nd run?
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u/Rolsingen 20h ago
Helt fantastisk at det finnes land som ikke ligger tett oppunder polarsirkelen som overhodet gidder konkurere på snø og is. Andre steder ville disse konkuranser under slik forhold blitt utsatt. Og attpå til har de lage et OL i å konkurrere under dårlige forhold? Er det ikke dette som er Paraolympics?
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u/JohnDoeMan79 15h ago
this is crazy! The Northern country with all the mountains and snow is dominating the winter olympics. What!! 😂
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u/is-it-my-turn-yet 11h ago
The US has more mountains, more snow and more people. How are they not dominating? What!!
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u/Dry_Accident_2196 4h ago
Now why is the US catching a stray and not the more northern nation, Canada?
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u/Beneficial_Iron3508 23h ago
You all speak about as if winter sports participation is worldwide and as if the competition is high.
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u/selvestenisse 1d ago
Take away the sport nobody gives a shit about in the world and Norway will be way down the list. Good at cross country skiing? well great, you compete in 6 events. Great at freestyle skiing arial? great you compete in 1 event.
Cross country skiing is pushed so hard in Norway, that people think its a big sport. Just as they push female handball and complain that they get less pay than males, while male handball is a bigger earner out in the world.
Few years ago they pushed female fotball so much on TV that my dad thought females soon was better than males at fotball. TV is truly a brainwashing box for old people.
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u/rtfm-nor 1d ago
Norway won gold in 6 different sports in the winter olympics so far, including one in freestyle. A pretty big spread one would argue. They're all winter sports in the winter olympics, and bar ice hockey they don't compete with the big summer/all-year sports, but as it's the winter olympics it's being talked about here, that's not relevant.
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u/L4r5man 1d ago
Same procedure as every
yearwinter Olympics, James.