Well I understand that many here are not experts on Norwegian culture and history like I am, so I’ll share my knowledge.
Written you are born in Norway. They strap a small pair of skies on you and give you a frozen pea shooter. They them drop you off in the middle of the forest and you need to find your way back home. Many don’t make it ( hence the 5.7M population) but the ones that do are heavily trained for the winter Olympics, hence all their success.
Floppy232 on
Nice, I love Norway and it’s people. They deserve it!
Stealthfighter21 on
The guardian should focus on its own country of 70 million with a shamefully modest performance.
Weshtonio on
Alternative title: Georgia (pop: 3.6m) beats India (pop: 1.5bn).
MerlinCa81 on
You Norwegians absolutely crushed it out there, well done. Impressive and most of all, entertaining to watch.
gold_and_diamond on
Years ago I did a winter cross country ski trip in Norway. One day it got super windy and conditions became pretty gnarly so my group of four guys threw up an emergency tarp to ride it out for a while. After about 30 minutes we took down the tarp. At the same time, a young mother of probably late 20s came skiing by dragging a baby on a sled behind her all bundled up and looking pretty comfy. Norwegians are hearty stock.
TheKensei on
Congrats Norway 🎉
BSpino on
At first I was like, “good job bro”, then I realized they used the relay picture where the Swede (Ebba Andersson) face planted which made me feel a little bit sore.
But still, despite the sting of The Guardians choice of picture, good job.
throwaway09234023322 on
The US did better this time than the last few. Norway like always wins. 🤣
JJOne101 on
And US (342 m) beats both China and India together (over 2500 m) to get second place.
GalahadDrei on
This is hardly news. Norway has led the medal table in Winter Olympics since 2014. The Netherlands’ impressive performance as well as Canada’s continued decline are a lot more newsworthy.
Then again, the Guardian is not exactly known for publishing actual news.
Sky-Reporter on
With the sheer amount of money our government pours into winter sports, if we didn’t absolutely clear then there’d be riots in the streets
Paprika1515 on
They’re rich and they invest in their athletes.
Prosecco1234 on
Excellent 👍 Congratulations Norway. !! From Canada 🇨🇦
ChuckEweFarley on
Well done Norway!
fretkat on
Very well deserved, congratulations Norway ♥️🇳🇴
Wiz_Kalita on
Iceland about to be invaded.
NicholeTheOtter on
Understandable when you remember that Norway is the most dominant nation in Winter Olympics history for overall medal count. They rack up tons of gold medals in alpine and cross-country skiing, and biathlon too.
The country’s most successful Olympian of all time, alpine skier Johannes Høsflot Klæbo won a whopping six gold medals in Milano Cortina, the most won by an individual at a single edition of the Winter Olympics, and now sits at 11 gold medals in his career, the most ever Winter Olympics gold medals by one person. He’s also second only to Michael Phelps as the most decorated Olympian in history. Except Klæbo to add even more to his resume in the French Alps.
SpotFit2996 on
Norway won because Team USA didn’t want to win many medals as their president likes shiny objects (especially gold colored items) and is known for stealing medals.
Unlucky-Albatross-12 on
Meh. Americans got their feel good gold medals with Alysa Liu in figure skating and beating Canada at hockey.
heatrealist on
A good part of that US population doesn’t get winter like Norway does. Where I am from we don’t even get autumn. It’s just summer and brutally hot summer. It’s not right to count the whole population lol.
If we had an Olympic event to see who can stand in the sun without turning into a lobster I’m pretty I can beat everyone in Norway.
Still Norway always does well. Congrats to them and all the individuals from other countries that won.
Pasutiyan on
Just goes to show there aren’t enough variations on ice skating fast yet. Could’ve beaten the yanks easily otherwise.
Exotic_Negotiation_4 on
Oh look, it’s the absolutely non-existent inferiority complex rearing it’s imaginary head again
Congrats Norway, amazing showing yet again
kiwigoguy1 on
The US has never been the top nation in Winter Olympics. In other news water is wet.
Econ_Orc on
Denmark got its SECOND Winter Olympic medal. The silver for Speedscater Victor Hald Thorup is the first individual medal. 28 years ago since the Womens Curling team took silver in 1998.
That is a total of two medals. Brother nation Norway has won 447 at the winter olympics.
ther_dog on
Norwegians, with their skiing disciplines and the Dutch with skating – they’re basically the long distance running Kenyans of Europe.
zobq on
Oh, come on, I’m tired of these discipline on both summer and winter olympics where one athlete can win dozens of medals alone. Swimming and running on summer olympics, nordic skiing and speed skating on winter olympic.
They ‘re great athlets but I always founds it extremely lame that media are focusing so much on numbers. Tennis, soccer or hokey players needs to work through whole tournament for single medal.
GandalfTheSexay on
What about everyone else?
ande3577 on
Well, it’s less surprising if the Norwegian population is listed as 5,699,999 + Johannes Hosflot Klaebo.
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Hell yeah! Congrats Norwegians
They are born with skis on their feet so…
Well I understand that many here are not experts on Norwegian culture and history like I am, so I’ll share my knowledge.
Written you are born in Norway. They strap a small pair of skies on you and give you a frozen pea shooter. They them drop you off in the middle of the forest and you need to find your way back home. Many don’t make it ( hence the 5.7M population) but the ones that do are heavily trained for the winter Olympics, hence all their success.
Nice, I love Norway and it’s people. They deserve it!
The guardian should focus on its own country of 70 million with a shamefully modest performance.
Alternative title: Georgia (pop: 3.6m) beats India (pop: 1.5bn).
You Norwegians absolutely crushed it out there, well done. Impressive and most of all, entertaining to watch.
Years ago I did a winter cross country ski trip in Norway. One day it got super windy and conditions became pretty gnarly so my group of four guys threw up an emergency tarp to ride it out for a while. After about 30 minutes we took down the tarp. At the same time, a young mother of probably late 20s came skiing by dragging a baby on a sled behind her all bundled up and looking pretty comfy. Norwegians are hearty stock.
Congrats Norway 🎉
At first I was like, “good job bro”, then I realized they used the relay picture where the Swede (Ebba Andersson) face planted which made me feel a little bit sore.
But still, despite the sting of The Guardians choice of picture, good job.
The US did better this time than the last few. Norway like always wins. 🤣
And US (342 m) beats both China and India together (over 2500 m) to get second place.
This is hardly news. Norway has led the medal table in Winter Olympics since 2014. The Netherlands’ impressive performance as well as Canada’s continued decline are a lot more newsworthy.
Then again, the Guardian is not exactly known for publishing actual news.
With the sheer amount of money our government pours into winter sports, if we didn’t absolutely clear then there’d be riots in the streets
They’re rich and they invest in their athletes.
Excellent 👍 Congratulations Norway. !! From Canada 🇨🇦
Well done Norway!
Very well deserved, congratulations Norway ♥️🇳🇴
Iceland about to be invaded.
Understandable when you remember that Norway is the most dominant nation in Winter Olympics history for overall medal count. They rack up tons of gold medals in alpine and cross-country skiing, and biathlon too.
The country’s most successful Olympian of all time, alpine skier Johannes Høsflot Klæbo won a whopping six gold medals in Milano Cortina, the most won by an individual at a single edition of the Winter Olympics, and now sits at 11 gold medals in his career, the most ever Winter Olympics gold medals by one person. He’s also second only to Michael Phelps as the most decorated Olympian in history. Except Klæbo to add even more to his resume in the French Alps.
Norway won because Team USA didn’t want to win many medals as their president likes shiny objects (especially gold colored items) and is known for stealing medals.
Meh. Americans got their feel good gold medals with Alysa Liu in figure skating and beating Canada at hockey.
A good part of that US population doesn’t get winter like Norway does. Where I am from we don’t even get autumn. It’s just summer and brutally hot summer. It’s not right to count the whole population lol.
If we had an Olympic event to see who can stand in the sun without turning into a lobster I’m pretty I can beat everyone in Norway.
Still Norway always does well. Congrats to them and all the individuals from other countries that won.
Just goes to show there aren’t enough variations on ice skating fast yet. Could’ve beaten the yanks easily otherwise.
Oh look, it’s the absolutely non-existent inferiority complex rearing it’s imaginary head again
Congrats Norway, amazing showing yet again
The US has never been the top nation in Winter Olympics. In other news water is wet.
Denmark got its SECOND Winter Olympic medal. The silver for Speedscater Victor Hald Thorup is the first individual medal. 28 years ago since the Womens Curling team took silver in 1998.
That is a total of two medals. Brother nation Norway has won 447 at the winter olympics.
Norwegians, with their skiing disciplines and the Dutch with skating – they’re basically the long distance running Kenyans of Europe.
Oh, come on, I’m tired of these discipline on both summer and winter olympics where one athlete can win dozens of medals alone. Swimming and running on summer olympics, nordic skiing and speed skating on winter olympic.
They ‘re great athlets but I always founds it extremely lame that media are focusing so much on numbers. Tennis, soccer or hokey players needs to work through whole tournament for single medal.
What about everyone else?
Well, it’s less surprising if the Norwegian population is listed as 5,699,999 + Johannes Hosflot Klaebo.