Northmenn
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Every Norwegian when USA takes gold in cross country skiing.
Its the one thing we are good at guys..
Edit : Damn..FP..4 years til next time I guess.
Feb 21, 2018 10:24 AM
Northmenn
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Its the one thing we are good at guys..
Edit : Damn..FP..4 years til next time I guess.
accountspayableninaspeakingjustamoment
Norse Americans be like 'we win either way'
gregoff82
... or every Swede when loosing to Germany in ice hockey (which happened today...)
YappyJam
Norway has 13 gold medals and 33 total so far this Olympics. Definitely good at more then just cross country skiing.
Hvanalstyne
As an American woman who learned to cross country ski when I could walk, this is motivating. America fuck yeah!
KaladasCRZY
ObsceneTentacularInsertions
If your taxes were lower, all of your talent wouldn't flee to the US. Just sayin'. Also we have hamburgers.
Ravenbreaker
Apparently not as good as you thought.
vvv12
That was only for team sprint woman. Everything was won be Norway (except Sweden sprint 1.5 woman)
Veldareth
Still
GordonRamseysMidgetPornDouble
My face anything USA does actually.
Raithryn
AMERICA FUCK YEAH!
Retroactively
cough snowboarding cough
SjundeSjukaSjomannenSjunne
@OP You should add a lusekofta on the WTF-guy (IF you got those skills, that I assume that you ain't got)
Northmenn
...your assumption is on point..
WD40Guy
Not this time.
ThisAintASurfinMovie
The Swedes reacted the same way when they just got beat by the Germans in hockey.
Northmenn
Its been a strange day
mentallychallengeaccepted
CANT WE JUST FORM A NEW KALMARUNIONEN AND ABSOLUTE MURDER NEXT WINTER OLYMPICS? PLEASE?
batmanmf
Biathalon is the true teller.
zsufolt
As an Alaskan, "Fuck yeah, Kikkan Randall!!!"
OddLocking
We practically created most of the winter olympic sports, as well as skis
RandomImgurian
THEY DID WHAT???
xecs78
You have a much better social support system overall. So you got going for you. Which is nice.
Circosys
Is the competitor decended from Nords?
Northmenn
Haha, good question
Sassmachine
Diggins is from MN, so there's a pretty good chance.
DirtyDerbyChick
I raced against her in high school!
JegElskerNorge
As a Norwegian I can confirm this
InnocentMalice
I heard my dad yell in rage when this happened. Yes, he is really into the Olympics
thisusernameisnttakenisit
As a yank living in Norway I've had to keep my smiles and laughs hidden.
CommentProvider
The one thing your good at? How has Norway won 33 medals so far?
Northmenn
Almost all are skiing..
LosPer
That's what makes this victory particularly sweet! lol
Turisten
We also know the difference between your and you're.
CommentProvider
AnAccountToPostThis
Isnt cross country the one with guns? Nobody can touch the US there.
kristomisto
Biathlon is the one with guns
BronzeLeaguePro
That's biathlon and Norway did pretty okay at it this year. We haven't gotten all the golds, but there's always next time.
aSophiebear
Norway is quite literally in the lead for most medals at the Olympics (33 total). "One thing we're good at" my ass.
TylersSenseOfEnnui
30/33 for skiing and cross country skiing is a very pinnacle showy ski event.
Northmenn
Yeah! You got a point, but still...sound worse with: "its one of the 5 things we are good at"
KingOfTheAnarchists
Norway is also good at treating its citizens decently and being a prosperous nation.
FckfacevonClownstick
nei
LordLink77
It's allright
usernametaken42
"it's the one thing we're good at" - Olympics says otherwise
Qualtagh
Nah they're still good at it. World champions, maybe not.
johnsemgawl
We are good at all the winter stuff, the US can have that one
UWantSumFuk
30/33 medals so far are skiing
BortymcBortfeis
33\75 so far = Norway. "one thing we're good at" my ass
TylersSenseOfEnnui
Yes but if 30/33 are for skiing and they lose the pinnacle showy ski event I get the chagrin.
BortymcBortfeis
?
TylersSenseOfEnnui
I get the confusion. I shouldn't be unnecessarily verbose. Chagrin means humiliation or distress.
funnman
It's funny though because norway still has more gold medals than any other country, and norway is prettttty small
Coolbacca
Shocking headline 'Country largely covered in snow is good at competing in snow based events'
ProbablyDrunkAgain
FILM AT 11!
kristomisto
Canada and Russia have equal amounts of snow a year, but 30 million (CAN) and 138 million (RU) more inhabitants than Norway
BronzeLeaguePro
Country covered in snow and formerly covered in bears and shit turns out to be quite good at skiing and shooting at the same time.
Oleur
Norwegian driveby
funnman
Who would have thought
BoopityBap
Russia and Canada have just as much snow, not to mention Sweden and Finland.
Coolbacca
Yeah but in those countries all the good athletes go on to play actual sports instead of just skiing
LordLink77
I think that might be one of, if not THE stupidest thing I've read
Coolbacca
Oh yeah? Try this on for size: I once tried to eat a pinecone because I didn't have any gum and wanted fresh breath
Khaylain
As a Norwegian, that's stupid, but funny.
BoopityBap
Pffffft
mediocrejoker
What defines actual sports? I'm intrigued :D
Coolbacca
Hockey, baseball, basketball, sometimes even football!
RegisBent
That's basically how Canada feels when USA beats us in Olympic hockey
RoamingEast
we do that by importing Canadian players.
mariemcd
Or the USA feels when the Czech's beat them in the quarter finals
nickelarse
Or when the UK beats Canada at curling :D
SirVG
Well, we'll find out if that's gonna happen when the women play tonite.
borgelj
Hasn’t happened much recently
skch
more like "WTF... sorry"
BatmanAndCradleRobin
Though when they beat us, their team is mostly Canadian any way.
thisistheguy
Man US Olympic hockey is garbage now
ZnypaH
Or Sweden's reaction when Germany eliminate us in the hockey quarter finals...
JayMalcom
My reaction as a German to the same game to be honest!
coxworth
Honestly, it's been rough getting through the day..
LowkeyOnTheDownlow
USA is already out in men’s hockey, lost to Czech Republic in a shootout last night
Fpt04
Men's tourney was a farce this year
jqdao3
Should've Czech'd themselves before they wrecked themselves.
OutOfContextSci
Hahahahahahah +1, eh
ClothoBuer
That's what happens when nhl players aren't allowed to participate, the US tanks.
irlborat
I guess this is how Americans feel when we lose a shootout as well
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Computercrafted
But only in schools
TenzVi
Womens my dude USA vs Canada men’s is a waste of time to watch cause no nhl players
jfred325350
Amen
CaptainNicMays
And 1980 was a waste of time too!?
mariemcd
See you at 11:00 PM tonight - Bring it !
LuukeSkywalker
Tell that to the miracle team
Matthew51376
Crosby golden goal anyone?
mt77932
Very few of the NHL players are American.
CommentsAreForClosers
As of 2016, nearly a quarter of the nhl is made up of American players, per US News & World Report. I doubt it has decreased in two years
TheBeerDoctor
Yeah that's not true. The real USA team is still an all-star team. Just not as much as Canada.
johngofett
While Canada is the majority, 15% of players is not "Very Few."
maliciousGman
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't NHL players barred from playing in the Olympics?
govs
They are not barred by the Olympic Committee but their teams won't let them go play go play.
maliciousGman
That's what I meant. I assume it's because it interferes with season games.
SavetheMinions
The NHL has let them go play in past games, they said no to this one, KHL and other european leagues did it right and let their players go.
TheGoldenPig
yep, 17 days too much, injuries, poor time zones, no economic gains, and hatred for IOC.
jattie
nope. Canada's men's team is 100% NHL players, I believe.
giitsok
No they're not
swigger
Wrong. Some of them have played in the NHL, but none of them are currently. They are in Euro or KHL leagues now.
swigger
Sauce: https://www.hockeycanada.ca/en-ca/news/2018-olym-nmt-olympic-roster-named
swigger
More sauce: https://www.tsn.ca/hockey-canada-unveils-men-s-2018-olympic-roster-1.965278
aSophiebear
"one thing we're good at" doesnt Norway have a shit ton of medals this year?
FatBodyManagement
Currently first in total medals, both in this olympic and aggregated from all winter olympics since the start
atowa
The one thing they do just to go to the store, they lost at.
JarlmannViking
We usually rack them up in ski-related sports, which there are many of in winter. The rest of the year... not so much.
Cakesndots
Fuck yea we do :D
EdgarAllanPoo
33 so far, 13 gold
smilingninja
Yeah we are far in the lead, but it's mostly skiing
SkypeOfCthulhu
We only win at the winter olympics if our gold medal count is higher than everybody else's total medal count.
AmIdoingthisrightNoOkay
Im pretty sure Norway has the most medals total in the history of the Olympics.
TheRicM
Pretty sure they invented most of these winter games lol
Guerilja
Only in the winter olympics
rezpawner
Not per capita if we include Lichtenstein. Those 36000 bastards have got like 9 medals.
BrokeMyFunnyBone
They have one bronze medal or did you mean in their entire history?
auserwithaname
Holy shit thats impressive
Muad
Says here 7 of their medals were won by just one family though.
illtakethingsthatneverhappenedfor200alex
At that point why didn’t they just keep them fucking ?
LeadByBadExample
Yeah, they do. Most of them won by "asthmatics".
Northmenn
Haha..true
IWatchBirdsForALiving
Found the swede!
LeadByBadExample
No, you just found the person reading the news.
dnebdal
Ah, so Russian or perhaps just an envious Dane, then. :)
LeadByBadExample
Dane, yes. Envious, not really. I don't care much for skiing. I prefer hockey. I like Norway, don't like Sweden.
JarlmannViking
Ah yes the news. Which are completely fair and unbiased to whichever country it reports to. Journalistic integrity is a joke in this age.
LeadByBadExample
I sourced it in another comment thread from several different news outlets. Russian, American, and even Norwegian.
mediocrejoker
You should read about exercise-induced asthma, maybe you will change your view.
BradysButtBoy
So you think it’s common for people with breathing issues to become elite endurance athletes? That’s a normal thing?
mediocrejoker
You got that backwards, they became elite endurance athletes, then developed EIA. C'mon man.
Zerteiler
Years of endurance training and competing on an elite level in sub zero temps, will fuck up their respiratory system sooner or later...
Zerteiler
...Doesn't matter what country they're from. Happens to most of them. Asthma meds doesn't make them perform better than their normal level.
MrFlexington
Yo we are within the limits bro, aint nobody better
SiIverSoul
*cough* Johaug.. wouldn't be a surprise if there were even more :)
MrFlexington
That was a cream for dreep wounds on fragile skin, have the same stuff, just very u fortunate. She was not near enhancing amounts
SiIverSoul
Yeah we all know thats bs. They tested her and it was over the allowed amount.
LeadByBadExample
Doesn't mean that claiming to have asthma to get ahead isn't shitty..
MrFlexington
Do u really think one can go around and claim that without the IOC checking?
LeadByBadExample
No, I know that for a fact.
BradysButtBoy
I mean, some of them were using way more of the medication than normal and had to be made to use a normal dosage soooo
BradysButtBoy
They were caught misusing the medication and got in trouble. Now they they are using an “acceptable” dosage.
MrFlexington
Sundby was the only one with abnormal dosage, it's no "they"
BradysButtBoy
So that many of them really have “asthma”? They may be using the “legal” dosage, but how many you think actually need asthma meds?