Why is this country so damn good at sports, despite having a population of barely 5 million people...

Hes right tho

Norway are garbage in hockey and Summer Olympics.

summer olympics are for poor people from shithole countries.

They are not very diverse, thats a problem for genetics, i read on huffpost and vox

>unironically doing worse than GB
LMAO SIT DOWN, BE HUMBLE

I agree, Norway needs more diversity. They should let in a million niggers like Sweden.

Money.

>t. Norwegian grocery shopping in Strömstad

>US does well in both
weedskiing arent olympic sports buddy

>5 millions

seems like a country who needs immigrant right the fuck now

Fuck off we're full.

You people probably don't even ski to work.

Pls send cute girls with italian heritage.

Government-funded doping program.

>Meme Olympics
who gives a shit, they bagged an impressive ZERO golds, ZERO silver and FOUR bronze medals at the last real olympics. Even we had a better record than that.

>getting rekt by Australia at the WINTER olympics

Just shut up, Pekka-Kari

If the table was for the men's only then bongs would have won

just dropping in to confirm that the winter olympics is a meme

And if amerimutts didn't statpad with swimming imagine what it would look like

>ice cream games
who cares?

winter olympics, aka 'wypipo going downhill in different ways' the tournament

They are good at skiing because that's a primary mode of transportation there, it is the same with why the Dutch are good at speed skating

norway is the greatest country on earth desu, they won the lottery and accidentally put their country on top of oil

Exactly the same

Breddeidrett
Ski high schools all over the country, normal education + skiing
Athletic talents prioritizes skiing
Genetics
Relatively large pool of skiing talents

norway likes winter sports

They're good at winter sports and that's about it. You'd hope that they are good at winter sports because the country is covered in snow. All other Nordic countries are far more impressive in other sports.

>best football player ever was United's magic sub
>good at sports

Dude. We're only relevant for two weeks every four years. This is our thing. Our only thing.

At least we’re still leading, not for long though.

they really, really like skiing

>winter olympics
>sports

?

unironically this

>go fast on skis in dozen different distances and styles
>go fast on skis but this time go downhill
>go fast on skis downhill but this time do some fancy tricks along the way
>go fast downhill but this time use a snowboard

etc

>American handegg
>Baseball
>Basketball
>sports

Wrong. It was the mosquito.

>build country on top of oil
>be social outcasts and autistists that don't breed
>distribute oil gibs to your tiny white population
>instead of wasting it on drugs like most would, the whites use it to have fun on the slopes (the only thing to do there other than fish)

ole gunnar pushed beckham out of united m8

>meme olympics
>sports
Yeah right. "Good"

>American education
Our oil is in the sea
Our birth rates are considerably higher than the rest of the developed world, 1,7-1,8
We "barely" use our oil money, look up oljefondet
>American education

Katie Couric said in the opening ceremonies that the reason the Dutch are good at speed skating is that the canals in Amsterdam freeze over and people skate to work and stuff. Then she got destroyed in Twitter

>51/102 Winter Olympic events (literally half of them) are skiing
Norwegians are one-trick ponies. It's like how the Americans statpad in swimming, except they're actually good at a few other sports too.

>Countries not winning any medals complaining

you have to go back, yusuf

>zero medals

Lichenstein got a medal, nobody can beat them at per capita statistics

Norway = Skibabbys
you can't win in anything but skiing
you hockey team is a joke

One trick pony

Do you even have snow?

How to fix medal tables:
Sum up all the medals from all disciplines within the same sport, and award one gold, one silver and one bronze. This will stop swimming and skiing from ruining the medal tables.

...

And you can only win sports where you buy the judges, as if that is any better.

Norway is probably among the most diverse sports nations, especially considering our population number.

They kick ass at snowsports, they've been great to watch this Olympics gotta hand it to them the team they put together was very impressive

Great, so you're shit. Good to know. To be fair, this semen slurping olympics don't even interest us Finns.

>Norway is probably among the most diverse sports nations
Is this bait? Norway are incredibly good at skiing, no-one can take that away from them. But aside from that there aren't any other sports they excel in.

>every single medal is in skiing
>diverse

yeah OK Lars.

Still angry about that curling match butch?

non-skiing countries will never have god tier athletes like mika myllylä

youtube.com/watch?v=MteuwvTBQOw

curling = watching grass grow

I am talking about this olympics
But also at summer olympics we are doing decent per capita.

Alpine, Biathlon/Cross country, half-pipe (I guess you didn't manage to buy the judges this time), Curling?, Ski Jumping, Speed skating

All very different sports. Kys butthurt subhuman

>the hovel of china

Kek, no. Australia would take that title by a considerable margin. On top of having 4 (four) major different football leagues (rugby league, rugby union, aussie rules and soccer, not to mention are good at all of these internationally*), we are also the best cricketing nation of all time, have a lot of Formula 1 racers including 2 championship racers, have motoGP racers, have athletes in the NBA, NFL (even of they're just punters), MLB, top golfers and top tennis players. Not to mention we do decently at the Summer Olympics, have god tier swimmers and crush basically every nation or size. Even in the winter Olympics we have medalists and that's despite all the different sports we play on top of not having snow.

No one plays sports the way Australia does.

*hurr australia is shit at soccer. We've won the Asian cup and regularly qualify for the world cup, and this is desite soccer beimg by far the smallest football code in Australia (dwarfed by rugby league amd aussie rules, which are in turn dwarfed by cricket).

I wrote among the best, and is this a copy pasta?

You are good at the British colonial sports? You are the only white country competing against low-t manlets from India and Pakistan.

Norway population = 5,2 million
Australia population = 24,1 million

Then why are Finns the most butthurt ones around on all of Cred Forums these times then?

And what is norway good at lol? Australia has representation at all of the biggest sports in the world, meanwhile Norway has skiing.

>formula 1, tennis, golf, motoGP, soccer, the (relevant) Olympics
>British colonial sports
Pick one, dumbfuck.

And as I said, we also have athletes competing in the highest level American sports on top of having a competitive league of our own for every relevant sport on the planet. Literally the only 'major' sport we don't have a domestic league for is American Football and Ice hockey. If you're going to say your country is a diverse sporting nation then you need to actually play multiple sports, kind of like Australia does.

>cricket
>not the second most popular sport in England, New Zealand, and South Africa (which has a bigger white population than Norway)
Also being better than almost 2 billion Asians in the subcontinent isn't exactly a joke considering it's the _only_ sport they care about.

And no, it's not pasta, you dumb newfaggot.

Norgay absolutely BTFO

Oh, I forgot about this since all this sport we dominate at is hard to keep track of, but Australia has also won gold in field hockey and won the world cup and champions trophy a bunch of times.

Literally all of them except curling and speed skating are just forms of skiing. And even then, Canada are the best at curling while Netherlands are the best at speed skating.

About the same population as the United States when you factor out fat people to be fair.
>last real olympics.
Sochi?

Australians itt:
WE ARE GOOD AT RUGBY LEAGUE AND AFL CAUSE WE ARE THE ONLY COUNTRY THAT PLAYS THEM.
that's great m80s. Go have a sit in the kids corner, the rest of the world is talking about the olympics.

And you do also have about 5 times the population. What are you trying to prove? Norway is AMONG the most diverse sports nations. Simply based on that we absolutely dominate in the Winter olympics and are 6. per capita in Summer Olympics (you are 13.). We are top 5 in handball for men and nr. 1 for women. We have had top athletes in most of the sports you have listed. If Winter Olympics/Sports didn't exist, all the talents we have poured into that competition would go elsewhere.

Historically at least, we are far better than you at football, the biggest sport in the world and the most important by far. American and Colonial sports don't count. You have five times the population.

Canada medal count: 302 (63 gold)
Australia medal count: 509 (152 gold)
Why is a chink colony talking about something he's not qualified to talk about?
K E K

Chinese colony seething that his nation is irrelevant in every sport on the face of this earth detected

But they are very different sports? Per capita we are better than Canada at curling. And I was listing the ones we have medals in.

>American and Colonial sports don't count
>but handball does

LOL

European > The rest of the world
Handball is big in Europe.

Calm down autismo

Norway is actually only good at skiing

>Muh per capita.
>all those sports you play dont count as being diverse because ??
Christ youre pathetic. And no, playing soccer and the winter olymlics (skiing) does not make you a diverse sporting nation. And keep in mind that this argument was originally about diverse, not best. We play 10x more sport than Norway does and that is an undisputable fact. When you have 15 different domestoc leagues for ever semi-relevant sport on earth you can call yourself a diverse sporting nation. Whem youre excellent at all of said sports, you can call yourself Australia

Canada Gold:53
Austrlia Gold:44
??????
You fucking retarded m80?
Also
Last Canadian Olympic win
2010
Last Australian Olympic win, literally never. But stay mad New Zealand less athletic cousin.

Do you mean winter sports in general, or cross country/biathlon only? Because we are very good at more winter sports than that. Also handball we are top five among the men and nr. 1 for women. Nr. 6 per capita at summer Olympics.

>Norway is probably among the most diverse sports nations, especially considering our population number
That would be Scotland. We have a similar population to Norway, but we're actually good at multiple sports instead of just skiing.

>norway is one of the most diverse sporting nations
>only sports that europe plays count
>the sports that britain (a European country) plays dont count
You realise how dumb you sound, right? You cant claim to be a diverse sporting nation then go back and say only sports played in europe count, especially when those sports are played almost exclusively by Nordic countries and not Europe as a whole.

Oops.
Meant 5
To 67 cant ctl c + v correctly.

Its just that Norway is 98% snow and ice, the people are bound to excel at those sports when they have to ski, sled or skate all the time. Do you know how hard it is to deliver pizzas on skis or ride the local toboggan to the grocery store?

Kek where did you even make these numbers up from?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_at_the_Summer_Olympics

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_at_the_Olympics

They have sports in Scotland?

Rugby and rugby league and probably others

See
We have 67. you have 5.
Same amount we have this year you have total.
>BUT THIS OTHER SPORTING EVENT NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT.
Do you randomly bring up Rugby League whenever you get that All BLACK cock shoved down your throat?

they like skiing

>chinks in charge of using a computer
Kek

Those are just legitimized drinking games. Any Scottish “sport” goes well with alcohol as it was originally conceived

>Muh per capita
Without per capita you aren't diverse either, so I don't know why you are trying to downplay that. Per capita is a more valid measurment than total.

>playing soccer
Football is the biggest sport in the world by far. Yes it counts. Wtf?

>about diverse, not best.
>We play 10x more sport than Norway does
Prove it, and per capita I can 100% sure say absolutely not. If you mean compete at a top level. Colonial sports that ONLY colonial countries compete in do not count, surely you must agree to that.

>Whem youre excellent at all of said sports, you can call yourself Australia
List the 15 sports you are excellent at.

shit that's almost as bad as >us and we make it known we're both shit and not interested in the Olympics

>posts Summer Olympic table during Winter Olympics
Autism. Ah well we had some great threads before the S E E T H I N G began.

if that's true, then why does Norway's hockey team suck ass?

Actually the Norwegian guy brought up how they were the most diverse sporting nation. Do you even know what the discussion was about or does your chinese inferiority complex compel you to defend yourpathetic ''country'' any time you feel threatened by muscular nations like Australia? Reminder that literally the ONLY thing Canada is known for is having a literal SJW freak lead their country and being a chinese colony.

At least you have Ronaldo and European soccer tournaments

Because Norwegians are too nice
>Even Canadians can be assholes enough for hockey, though they do apologize after they check you

Running is not a sport.
Norway made an accurate post, and While Australia isn't bad in that respect either you got autistic and started rambling about rugby league and AFL or whatever in a winter Olympics thread. WHEN I laughed at you, You then showed having more summer Olympics medals like that is at all relevant.

Liechtenstein has more gold medals than all of South America and Africa and Denmark put together.

Norway is the most diverse sporting nation.

>Running is not a sport
It’s a way of life

Is there anything Danes are good at? Are they even a real country?

How much of a literal retard do you have to be to use amount of olympic medals as evidence of how good/bad at sports a nation is? Sports like swimming and skating hands out medals like they're fucking candy, whereas there are only six (three per gender) available for team sports like football, handball or basketball.

It's a very flawed way of comparing.

Great at tennis, cycling, rowing, rugby, curling, skeleton and short track speed skating. And while our football may not be the best these days but we've still produced the greatest managers in history.

They keep our head warm.

What?
Soccer, Handball, basketball, waterpolo, Hockey, Curling, and now Baseball.

This.

List the sports that Norway plays lol. All you have is soccer, skiing and handball, meanwhile Australia has:
>soccer (Asian cup winner and qualify often for the world cup)
>golf (constant representati9n amd we have our own Open)
>tennis (constant representation at the highest level amd our own Open that's one of the most popular in the world)
>formula 1 (2 world champions and multiple drivers at the highest level for decades, including right now; Melbourne Grand Prix is one of the biggest races of the year)
>constant representation in the motoGP
>one of the best summer olympic nations, winning gold in an array of sports
>medalists at the winter olympics despite not having snow
>one of the best field hockey nations on earth and gold medalists in the olympics
>the best cricketing nation on earth despite it being played by more people than even soccer
>rugby union world cup winner
>rugby league worls cup winner
>competitove domestic baseball league (and baseballers in the MLB which is undoubtedly the highest level of baseball in the world)
>competitive domestic basket ball league and players in the NBA
>competitive domestic field hockey league
>domestic super cars league watched all around the world
>literally invented our own sport that we play
>some of the best swimmers in the wod

Literally how can you say this isnt a diverse sporting nation lol? Do you know what diverse means? Playing a lot of sports is literally THE definiton of diverse, claiming they don't count because only british colonies (one third of the planet) play it is absolutely nonesensical.

They won the most medals (15) out of all Nordic countries in Rio.

Meanwhile, Finland got a bronze. ONE. BRONZE. MEDAL.

>English speaking countries not understanding what the term "among" means.
Google it please. I have not studied what country is the actual most diverse, I just know that we are pretty diverse, PER CAPITA of course. Of course we can't compete with countries that have 5x and 10x the population, and also are mostly European. RELATIVELY to our size, we are "diverse".

You realize how dumb you sound for including sports where 1 white country competes against low-t non-European manlets?

But we are competing in international sports too. Handball just counts much more than the colonial and American sports for OBVIOUS reasons.

What the fuck do you even think you are responding to?

Who even mentioned running? You should keep learning English or just go back to china mate

Summer Olympixs aka the world highschool track meet.
You said there are only 6 team sport medals there are 16.

>being this illiterate
I gave three examples of sports with only 6 medals, and I said as much too, you actual fucking retard.

I'll give you the benefit of doubt and assume you're French Canadian.

>2 possble medals for each team sport
>number of possible speedskating medals: >30
>number of possible swimming medals: >80

This is insane reaching. You have AFL Rugby and Cricket.
Saying you are good at tennis (for whatever reason every coutry says that here) is bad enough. Saying Winter Olympics where you have 5 gold ever is getting desperate, metioning Baseball is just a flat out fabrication.
Meanwhile skiing is not just one sport.

>hurr all those sports you listed dont count because you mentioned cricket e-even though its also played by england new zealand and South africa (which has more whites than like 50% of European countries). And if you want to make the argument that a sport doesnt count because shitskins like it then you cant claim soccer is the most popular sport in the world either

Do any of you retards even know what diverse means? Litwrally ANY sport counts if youre talkimg about playi g a lot of sports.

It's not just Australia and South Asia that play cricket. England, New Zealand, South Africa and the West Indies play it too. Even if you take away all the Indians, there are more people who play cricket than people who play handball. To claim that being good at handball is more important than being good at cricket (especially when every other nation that plays handball is far more successful in other sports) is a joke.

Tennis is one of the most popular sports on Earth you unbelievable retard. Same with golf and formula 1, all of which australia is good at. And i never said we were good at winter olympics, the original discussion was simply about who plays the most DIFFERENT sports but somehow you, having a severe inferiority complex for being a brain dead chinese immigrant, took it as an argument about being good at sport.

The fact that you dismiss any sport in a discussion about who plays the most different sports just showcases how retarded you are

Skiing has far less variety than you think. Judged sports like freestyle skiing is not a real sport. Then you have long-distance skiing like cross country, short distance skiing like alpine skiing and ski jumping. It has far less variety then something like athletics.

Yes Tennis is popular. Everywhere has it Canada, Australia Norway. None of our countries are particularly good at it so stop. You can't just say you are diverse cause some kid played baseball in PE.
>Moguls is not a sport
>diving on grass is.
KYS my man

just fuck our shit up senpai...

we will get you next summer olympics

Funfact. Bjorndalen trained gymastics to become better in biathlon. Got ridiculed for it and became the all time olympic gold medalist.

>unironically using the divegrass meme as an argument
Way to ruin any credibility your argument may have had. Judged sports like moguls and gymnastics are no different from beauty pageants.

Auatralia has tennis champions amd has the Australian open which is one of the biggest in the world. And again, for the millionth time, the discussion was about who plays the most DIFFERENT sport, not who is the best at sport
Learn to fucking read.

And we have our own domestic baseball league that is broadcast on tv and plenty of players to play in the MBA
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Baseball_League

baseball-almanac.com/players/birthplace.php?loc=Australia

underrated

>ameriswim

ITT dumbfuck snowniggers and chinks get blown the fuck out by big strong amd muscular Anglo nations

KEK not being part of the Anglosphere is just pathetic

They actually have empirical measurements and calculations to it. Not that I would expect a foot fairy to understand.
Your last win of your own tournament was like 40 years ago. You won Wimbledon in the 60s. Wouldnt consider Australia a Tennis country sorry.
HE said sports diversity. I wouldnt say that includes every single sport someone in Australia tried sometime that is pedantic and I'm sure any country could do that.

I see alot of flags here try to explain why norway is OP. Frankly I have no good explaination. But one thing i realized about yhe gestalt of having a couple months of Winter each year is that you are literally molded by it. I was out drinking with the bois, showing them neet threads from int norsketråden, then suddently an irishman came sliding down the icy street. He was cursing and bruised like hell and couldn't get up. He proceded to give us a long rant about the fuckery of our streets and he couldn't understand how we walked upright. Even stacies in stillettos fueled by smirnoff danced by him towards deli deluca for a late night snack. I realized that i have never practiced walking on ice, but its my dasein. (((you))) will never have it.

>backtracking this hard
>winning tha asian cup, formula 1, motoGP, golf and tennis opens, having a domestic baseball league thats broadcast on tv around the world (including america), havimg players in the NFL, NBA, MLB, all while being one of the best summer olympic nations is only "someone in australia just trying sometime"
Kek if thats how good we are from some random just trying some time then thanks for the huge compliment

There are more people living among snow and ice in the US, larger area with ice and snow.

>Soccer, it's called football
You are competing against Asians and New Zealand. Do not count, you are even more trash than Norway historically, far more trash.
>Golf
Ok
>Tennis
Ok
>Formula 1
Ok
>constant representation in the motoGP
I don't know anything about motorsports, I don't even know if we have any good ones there. Petter Solberg in rally?
>one of the best summer olympic nations
Norway 6. per capita Australia 13.
>medalists at the winter olympics despite not having snow
A winter olympics Norway absolutely dominate in. Despite tiny population.
>Field hockey
Isn't that only colonial nations taking seriously? Immigrants in Norway are the only ones to play it here.
>the best cricketing nation
If you count cricket, Winter sports should also be counted 100% and Norway are 10x the sports nation Australia is.
>rugby union world cup winner
>rugby league worls cup winner
Another sports where only the commonwealth competes?
>competitove domestic baseball league
American zone of influence only, that care about that sport
>competitive domestic field hockey league
2. time you mentioned it.
>domestic super cars league
Some more motorsports
>literally invented our own sport that we play
We invented Biathlon (if I remember correctly), that several countries compete in.
>some of the best swimmers in the wod
Ok

A very stretched list IMO, for a majority European country of 25 million you have just given me the impression that you are not diverse at all, actually quite shit at sports if this is what you have.

>Playing a lot of sports is literally THE definiton of diverse
And everything is relative. You have 5x the population. "Playing" a lot of sports? I thought you meant having top athletes in different sports. You are maybe the most diverse sports nation among the British colonies.

Technically you have one guy in the NHL who scored 1 goal 1 time. Make sure to add ice hockey to your list of Australian sports even though my municipal has more ice rinks than your country

Any swedes think that you're worse in Winter olympics due to centralization. Almost all our major winners come from the rural bygda districts. Even more from farms, bjorgen, therese, northug to mention a few.

user he is trolling you. Australia plays those sports like American nerds play quiditich or Norway might have a kids league of or 4 corner soccer. If you walk into a sports bar in Melbourne or Sydney nobody will be able to explain baseball, let alone have played it. He is just listing off anything anyone in his country has ever tried. I unirionically think Australia is a top 10 sporting country in both quality and diversity. But he is baiting.

Handball > Cricket. Most Europeans competing vs Some Europeans and mostly low-t Asian manlets.

If you count Cricket and Rugby, Winter sports should also count and Norway absolutely destroys Australia. Counting the colonial sports individually, means that all the winter sports should be counted individually too. Winter sports > Colonial sports, in terms of competitiveness.

The scores in beauty pageants are empirical too. The fact is that two contestants can perform identical manouvres and they can still receive different scores. Alternatively two equally complex manouvres can receive different scores because the judges are favouring a particular technique. It's fine to have them in the X games, I don't think they should stop holding competitions for them. But they hold no place in the Olympics.

That being said, disregarding "colonial" sports or counting them all as 1 is retarded.

Ok so you are mentally disabled. There is a considerable difference between cross country and biathlon (Handball vs Basketball), Alpine is a very different sport together with Ski jumping. Damn you are dumb.

It's Trondelag m8, it's the sodd they are eating and the moonshine they start drinking when they are 14.

Thats not true tho athletes know of what is preferred how it is weighted a head of time etc. Realistically many races have more RNG cause of wipeouts, and all sports have refpuck or whatever the Soccer equivalent is. I mean its a sport literally known for its diving, of course officiating plays into the outcome. However Olympic judges are as good as you can get and realistically you dont see much incorrect or invalid variance.

Unironically "typisk norsk å vere god"

Maybe they are top 10, but he is not giving me that impression at all.

Then you can't count winter olympics as one thing either.

>muh per capitita
Totally retarded. Only way you could make this mean anything to break it down by Olympic participation rates.

sodd and karsk is a lethal combination.

I am not. He is also retarded.

This American per capita score is only low because they are all fat and unathletic. So its really unfair.

Are you incapable of reading English? I literally said that alpine skiing is different from ski jumping. The fact is that athletics is still more varied than the various skiing events. With skiing, you have alpine, ski jump, cross-country and biathlon. With athletics, you have track events, jumping events, marathon, triathlon as well as throwing events. The heptathlon/decathlon is also far more varied than Nordic combined or biathlon. The fact that a snowboarder managed to win gold at Olympic skiing shows how little variety there is.

But we don't have a league here so, no, we don't play it. Basketball and baseball obviously count because we have domestic leagues that are actually televised.

>if a sport is played by a colonial nation or america it doeant count, even though that's most of the planted
Translation: skiing and soccer are the only sports that count. And for the record I never said winter sports don't count. You're the dumbfuck trying to discredit various sporta in a discussion about who plays the most different sports, probably because you know your argument is pathetically weak

And per gdp and per active registered athlethe (talent pool). Also some sort of weight Accounting for medals between and within a sport.

He's a dumbfuck Norwegian who has blown steam up his ass because his country did well in a sport thats played exclusively by them, of course he'd pull the pathetic muh capita card. Europeans are fucking autistic.

False. There are only 3 medals each competition, and each country can send their best to each competition. Per capita is by far the most valid way of measuring.

>we have domestic leagues that are actually televised.
One time they had Dota on ESPN 2. South Korea has both a Hockey League and An American football league. We even have AFL on tv here. Not sure your fucking point.

We dont play ski. Whothefuk cares anyway. I only like to see crazy shit humans can do.

So basically the entire world is completely blown the fuck out in both versions of the Olympics because a mountain town in europe woth 30,000 people won a single medal. Yeah, per capita is obviously the best measurement.

Fuck imagine being this retarded

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Alpine skiing is very different from cross country, biathlon and ski jumping yes. And skating, and all the other winter sports. These sports are actually very different. Do you consider Basketball and Handball to be the same sport?

>The fact that a snowboarder managed to win gold at Olympic skiing shows how little variety there is.
Who? Did he win in half-pipe, which is more like snowboard than cross country?

>country has an actuall competitive domestic league for a sport
>hurr your country doesnt play that sport
Literally how can tou be this fuckimg retarded? Your idiocy is mindblowing.

Just look at the slopestyle skiing this year. Judges were giving ridiculous point reductions for anyone who fucked up the rails segments despite being technically less harder than any of the air segments (except for the Brit, who messed up his rails but still got a very high score compared to everyone else). Then the commentators were literally talking about how some of the early contestants got low-balled or how the judges were giving out high marks too early.

Meanwhile football being known to diving is a Cred Forums meme. It shows how little you know about sports. It would not be the most watched sport in the world if it was solely about cheating and not actually about playing football.

Blown the fuck out in winter olympics, not the summer olympics. There we are only 6th per capita with a lot of competition.

Per capita is the best measurement, but not the only one. Disagreeing just shows your bias. Of course if a little island with 500 population and a superman is born there and win one olympic medal, that's one thing. Countries with millions of people and several medals in different sports are another.

Yes, imagine being this retarded

What do they say

>probably because you know your argument is pathetically weak
Your argument is literally that per capita doesn't matter and beating low-T asians at something counts. Your arguments are the pathetic ones.

If winter sports counts, then how the fuck can you claim that Norway are not among the most diverse sports nations? AMONG.

>a sport thats played exclusively by them
But that's false

>of course he'd pull the pathetic muh capita card
Again, per capita is 100% a valid argument. In some spesific cases, maybe not, but in countries like Norway, Finland, Sweden, Hungary etc. it is more valid than total sports or total medals.

He means Ledecka. The female Bo Jackson. She won Super G by a hundredth of a second. A truly good story. Of course she trained heavily at both and has fired coaches for trying to make her pick one. But she is a world class snowboarder and only decent at skiing. She also qualified for Downhill but couldnt compete. Of course now baseball is also football cause of the overlap there as well. But hey.
>COMPETITIVE DOMESTIC LEAGUE
No. Korea has competitive baseball leagues. MLB is competitive. Japan, Cuba, Dominican all have competitive leagues. You have a beer league they put on t.v..
>Too anyone who fucked up rail segments
So...? Thats fair. They know everything beforehand. Its not like some judge randomly decided you know what fuck rails!
>olympic commentators.
All retarded. Look at NBC on the Super G or even CBC trying to figure out international hockey. It's a joke.

Actual sports are played in shithole countries, not sliding down a hill on some sticks.

medalspercapita.com/#medals-per-capita:2016
Okay so Grenada is the best sporting nation on earth because they won a medal once. Got it.

>still ignoring that cricket is played competitively by more white people rhan any winter olympic sport except maybe hockey

K E K
>the absolute state of this autistic Norwegians argument

Kek and yet pur beer league continuously gets players going to the MLB

...

Norway is the only Nordic country to not have a "Sport in [country]" Wikipedia page. It's obviously not an objective metric by any means but it shows that Norway's breadth in sports is small compared to its neighbouring countries, let alone the entire world.

>good at sports
>winter olympics
what

>Its not like some judge randomly decided you know what fuck rails!
That's pretty much what happened though. The British skier had a bad rails segment and he still got a ridiculously high score compared to everyone else.

That Norway has a different culture when it comes to winter sports. example ''gå på tur'' isn't a thing like it is in Norway atleast not in the south. But also that Norway spends more money (not a big chock) but they spend it on right things. But also that they have places like Olympiatoppen where different athlets from different kinds of sports can work togeather and learn from eachother, and they also keep the competence level super high.

Norwegian inferiority complex, that's all.

7, Wooow.

Because of the weighting.

>none objective measurement
Imagine if goals or touchdowns had aweighting kek

>be Norwegian
>rear your head out of your irrelevant, muslim infested shithole once every 4 years because you won some medals at a sport no one plays
KEK
E
K

You know it only took Norway ONE try to beat America's mass shooting high score...

Weighting is objective you dumbass. Literally imperical. The fuck do they teach limeys in "maths?"
Also Touchdowns are weighted against safeties, fieldgoals, two point conversions and extra points. A team with lots of field goals losing to a team with touchdowns even if they score more.

FUCKING KEEEEK.

But the weightings are based on subjective measurements. A touchdown and a field goal are worth the same amount of points reguardless of whether they were off a 50 yard dragon, an interception or a 2 yard run.

You're AMONG if you care that much user

If you read what I wrote, I counted micro nations. Granada's medals are all one by one guy.

>still ignoring that cricket is played competitively by more white people
Cross country = USA, Canada, Germany, France, Russia, Poland, Scandinavia, East-Block in general. Are you so sure about that claim? Because I am.

>the absolute state of this autistic Norwegians argument
What is an autistic argument? Aren't autistic people overly logical and lack feelings? If you are saying my arguments are "overly logical" I'm pretty sure it's better than your retarded arguments based on feelings like yours.

>But the weightings are based on subjective measurements. Now they are literally given a percentage, you you are saying deciding those percentages is "selective" so was deciding tds are six points and field goals were 3.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia_at_the_Olympics
You don't even care about the summer olympics...

Russia has only one athlete?
Also why isn’t ‘Murica first like usual. Triggers my autism

Thank you sota bror

Empirical != objective, you brainlet

In Winter Olympics we absolutely dominate
Sports in general, we are "diverse" per capita

If Winter sports didn't exist, the same talents would be used elsewhere. Take the Ingebrigtsen borhters for instance, they had to choose between becoming skiers or runners, and they picked the latter and are now doing relatively good. Probably the same for Warholm.

You clearly don't know what you are talking about, if you are the same guy who claimed that the winter sports aren't diverse. They are just as diverse as the summer olympic sports.

Cricket is the second most popular sport im england, new zealand, and white south africa, as well as the most popular sport by far im australia. Togethwr this is almost 100 million white people. O the contrary cross coumtry skiing isnt even near the secons most popular sport in the vast majorty of those countries you listed, especially not fucking usa, germany russia or poland. In fact golf is second most in germany and australia happens to be good at that unlile norway :^)

>per capita only counts when i want it to and when in benefits my argument
You are completely retarded

>OAR 0 GOLD
Dopers EXPOSED
Well yes. Sports are man made inventions. How scoring was decided in literally all of them was subjective.

nr. 6 per capita for summer olympics. Would be higher if all the talent poured in the winter olympics where used in the summer olympics.

>They are just as diverse as the summer olympic sports.
Winter sports certainly aren't all the same as each other, but to claim that they are just as diverse as the summer sports is just delusional.

>Absolutely dominate winter olympics
>One of the richest countries in the world per cpaita
>Ranked the best country to live in several years in a row
Yeah I'm sure Norwegians have a inferiority complex towards anyone.

I remember when you were also good at football. What went wrong? Now you barely get past San Marino, dark days.

>caring about sports that are not the NHL, NBA, NFL, MLB, or Nascar

Except a touch downs points arent judgee, they are the same no matter the fashion or technique of the touchdown. Thats what makes them objective. A judge is just that? Its their personal measurement which is literally the definiton of somethimg thats not objective

>this thread
success breed jealousy

kek australia is actually ranked the best to live in, and our city melbourne, known world wide as the "sports capital of the world" for all the major sporting events it hosts, is the constantly ranked the most liveable city on earth.

Medalwise yeah. Rugby 7s, Tennis, boxing etc all each only count as one event.
Ever watch football? There is a 10 minute review of what was a "catch" if he crossed the plane, if he had possession etc, which is really no different than say Moguls scoring.

>Be Australian
Hmm

I agree that East-Asian immigrants are superior to semitic ones, but at least my country is still mostly owned by the native population.

We can all agree that America is fat. Even their own US News rankings didn't put America in the top 7 countries.

>success breeds jealousy

thats why first world countries hate trump

If a ball has completely crossed the goal line in football, it's a goal. That is 100% objective and undeniable. The performance of a freestyle skiier or snowboarder is not objective, that's why judges can all give different scores. Obviously they have guidelines but there is still an element of subjectivity to it.

And that is what I have claimed all the time. And "you", so you aren't Norwegian? Non-European that should go back, Partyswede working in Oslo or Polish carpenter?

Kek you're acrually trying to conflate whether something os a catch with the ENTIRE scoring system being based on a judge's opinion. You are actually the most retarded person in this thread, which os just staggering given the amount of Norwegians in here

I am convinced you just flatout dont watch sports.
Obviously Moguls judges are not perfect. But neither are NFL refs. NFL reviews are probably way more off and subjective imo.

I remeber beating a team from england in danacup.Good enough for me. They where called something that started with raven. I got a red card and called a twat. Good memories.

kek we don't even have nonwhites in parliament

The '''''scoring''''' is objective. A touchdown is always worth the same amount of points which is literally the definiton of objective, you seething brainlet.

if you're not of mostly european descent you're ugly

Norway is beautiful.

Except for the nonwhites who live there.

According to Wiki it's behind Rugby and Tennis.

>isnt even near the secons most popular sport in the vast majorty of those countries you listed
Ok

>per capita only counts when i want it to and when in benefits my argument
I didn't write that, and I explained my logic. Again you are the retarded one here.

Scoring is not based in the judges "opinion" and 5 different refs can call the same play a touchdown, incompletion, fumble or down at the one. Its getting ridiculous you have videos of refs saying they have no clue what replay officials are saying. Dont post about tjings you know nothing about.
And a perfectly execute triple axel is a perfectly executed triple axel scorewise. Stick to divegrass casual.

Norway, Sweden and Germany sold out their beautiful Aryan people to inbred mudskins.They have failed to keep their bloodline pure. They are shitholes

There are far more summer sports as far as I can remember though, if that is what you mean? The difference between the winter sports are just as big as between 15 of the summer sports.

You clearly do not know what you are talking about. Simple as that.

But you guys didnt, Obama?

>canadian talking about european ancestry
You literally are china 2.0 with an insane sjw leader. Please

LOL in what fucking universe? The ashes series that happen just last month smashed every record on the book. It was watched by 16 million australians and average attendance was almost 80k across 5 games and 25 days of cricket. Rugby, i assume you mean league because union is totally irrelevant outside of the world cup, is only watched in two states.

>norway thread, i wonder what it's about?
>autism
oh

because there's more biathlon, ski jumping, and cross-country events than there need to be

My gf (Chinese) and me (spic) want to move to Norway to produce a baby and get parental time off. Any need for math professors, Data Analysts, or financial analyst? Both can do both.

We were never good, but we were okay. Good for our size.

Historically Rosenborg (football club) was really good at developing players, and the money in Norwegian football was low so people couldn't import as much. Then they became worse. They have recently started to pick up again, but are far from their old level.

Terrible youth development, just recently it has picked up. Basically we had a period where the teams developing talents just imported Africans and developed them instead of local players, but things have changed lately.

all beautiful things fade right? holds true for humanity too i guess...

I see the confusion. You went to a wiki about sports leagues. Cricket is not a league and hence not mentioned on that list.

Sunnmoring som ikkje tar agnet til bitre kengeruanons. Trenge ikkje sperge heilt til Cred Forums når vi diskuterar idrettsnorge user.

Obama was allowed to be elected by the elite because they believed it would ease race relations and keep the former slave population in control. Ended up doing the opposite. That's why they allowed Trump to take control

Oops, meant to quote

I never mentioned cricket you silly Emu Colony.

ya let me connect you with a buddy of mine his name is mohammed atta

I'm pretty sure that's Norway the last couple of years. HDI/UN reports that is.

Mate we took care of our emus unlike you and the chinks :^)

The variation between most winter sports is about the same as the variation between the athletics events in the Summer Olympics. There's still a lot of variety but the fact is that the Summer Olympics has a ton of other sports outside of athletics. You'd have to perform some serious mental gymnastics to think otherwise.

Norway btfo.

They don't even teach them their own history in Norway/Sweden, like it's bad to be decended from pagans and Viking conquerors or be proud of Swedish heritage. Dispicable

>aussie rules
Literally no one else plays this sport, how can you say you're good at that "internationally"?

>regularly qualify for the world cup
Facing Papua New Guinea and Singapore, lel.

>"sports capital of the world"
Nobody says this outside of Melbourne
You lost a war against birds

ski jumping has 4 events. only nordic combined, curling and bobsleigh has less.

meanwhile there are 22 (twenty two) skating events.

>LOL in what fucking universe?
According to wikipedia, sports in England.

No. But hockey should be like getting the Snitch, worth at least 10 golds. Maybe 23 even, 1 per player.

>The Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) Liveability Index ranks 140 cities each year on those topics, as well as stability, culture and environment.
>7 years in a row

I think norway is currently most livable country but different sites say different things.

The post was about who plays the most different sports, learn to read you dumb muslim faggot

That's why JP Morgan is trying to crush cryptocurrencies. Did you know JP Morgan's father died in Europe and the main reason he went there was to meet with the Rothschilds.

Don't come. The Norwegian welfare services steals children from foreigners and give them to commerical foster homes (that in turn get more money from the state)

>Norway is the only Nordic country to not have a "Sport in [country]" Wikipedia page.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_en_Norvège
Being this monolingual

vikings were always cuckolds

they didnt fucking annihilate groups of people they conquered, they actually generally embraced their cultures

it's called empathy something "people" of non northern european descent lack and it's led to the destruction of the white race (humanity)

Han er nok helt serios. Og hvorfor ikke? Dette er goy.

Oh you're talking aboit England. Cricket, football and rugby are the three teams sports considered elite im the country. Cricket is played in summer and rugby in winter. Im summer everyone watches the one and in winter the other.

The fact remains that more white people take crickt seriously than amy winter sport outside of ice hockey

What does England have to do with white people?

Jaok, viss du synes det er goy så kjor på.

>no english page
KEK youre literally proving his point. English is THE only relevant language.

Look I'm beating around the bush here. If you see someone who isn't white take them to a vet to be put down painlessly. If you see a white race traitor throw them in a river

More than Canada, that's for sure.

There are 12 cross-country skiing events and 11 biathlon events.

England: 85.4% white
Canada: 74.3% white

Smiley? You sure have gotten soft.

yea, speed skating is bad too, but I was talking about Norway and not Netherlands or Korea

Do europeans actually think winter olympics is relevant? Like do they unironically believe this? Because no one outside of Europe gives a flying fuck about the winter olympics. Like literally no country at all. Even the relevant european coumtries like Englanddon't care even slightly

>11 biathlon events.
a historic sport with roots in hunting and norse mythology, literally has its own god.

meanwhile freestyle skiing and snowboarding, which is pure show and relies heavily on """judges""", have 10. not to mention that figure skating is in this. cross-country skiing is as basic of a winter sport as you can get, but i agree 12 can be seen as much. but biathlon is not the problem.

a fucking chink and a chupacabra...don't breed you fucking subhumans

>2 triathlon events
>2 pentathlon events
>1 heptathlon event
>1 decathlon event
>11 biathlon events
Fuck the biathlon.

Canada does. We are not part of europe.
Please insert your salty fox and the grapes post here.

t. Somali migrant

Cross country can be compared to Running/Race walk, all forms of it. You have various distances, sprint, teams, classical, free style, mixed etc. in skiing like with running.

Alpine for instance is completely different from Cross country, it's like saying that Running is the same as Football or any sport where they use their feet. Ski jumping completely different. Ice skating, Curling, completely different. The winter sports between themselves are just as diverse as the summer olympics are between themselves.

What is your point? Yes there are more sports in the Summer olympics.

>caring about the winter olympcis and still being fucking terrible at it
LMAO canada ladies and gentlemen

Serious question, how many of these euro countries like norway play winter sports every year and have actual leagues and events that people follow? Or is it more of an olympics thing like swimming in america and australia

>20 running events
>11 biathlon events
Fuck running.

>more
Totally agree to this, i havent looked it up but i would assume its the same here. Kids that grows up in the cities does never get exposed to different sports like skiing, alpine etc. They just sit around and masturbates to the fantasy of becoming the next Ronaldo or whatever.

????

We styling on you bitter sperglords. Haha.

getting btfo by a country with 4 million people
>barely beating russia despite all their athletes being banned
>not even number 1 despite being by far the biggest country to care about it
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAA

Black metal. They are fueled by Satan.

Gold is the only medal that counts, the other 2 are for losers

>English is THE only relevant language.
On wikipedia maybe, Norwegians don't even bother to have a page in their language, imagine how much they care about this brilliant internet culture written in English.
Also you're still monolingual.

>Ice Hockey
Norway nr. 9
This is the US viewership alone, and I bet it's 95+% white people who watch winer sports there.
nielsen.com/us/en/insights/news/2010/skiing-tops-olympic-tv-viewership-while-hockey-scores-online.html

Do you have any viewership numbers for Cricket in England?

Agreed we are fourth
????

lmfao no

12 cross-country skiing events are only natural though. 100m, 200m, 500m, 1000m, 1500m, 3000m, 5000m etc. Race walking.

The same countries compete in the WC (official competitions), and various competitions like "Tour de Ski" etc.

Let's do a direct comparison between the two Olympics using like-for-like sports:
Cross-country skiing = longer distance running (5km, 10km, marathon, race walk, etc.)
Alpine skiing = shorter distance running (100m, 800m, hurdles, etc.)
Ski jumping = long jump/triple jump/high jump
Nordic Combined = Heptathlon/Decathlon
Biathlon = Shooting
Freestyle Skiing/Snowboarding/Figure skating = Gymnastics/Synchronised Swimming
Short track/Speed skating = Cycling
Bobsleigh/Skeleton/Luge = Rowing/Canoeing/Sailing
Ice hockey = Field Hockey
Curling = Archery

Then the Summer Olympics also has football, tennis, weightlifting, rugby, handball, judo, taekwondo, boxing, wrestling, volleyball, basketball, water polo, equestrian, swimming, diving, badminton, table tennis, fencing, triathlon and pentathlon. But sure, they have about the same variation.

>Do europeans actually think winter olympics is relevant?
Practically all of them except Spain Greece and UK to some extent. Of course Australia can not feel really involved due to geographical and cultural reasons.

You start out wrong. Alpine isn't like Cross-Country at all. Short distance running fall under Cross-country. It's just that they don't compete in 100m and 200m etc. But they could.

The sports between themselves, have as much variation as the summer sports between themselves. Maybe you could compare the 15 most popular Summer sports with the 15 Winter sports, I think the result would show that the variation is pretty equal.

>amerimutt lying about muh heritage
shocker

>They don't even teach them their own history in Norway/Sweden
you've been reading too many weird blogs, cleetus.

A great skiier can compete for medals at a lot more events than a great runner though. Skiing is more akin to swimming in that regard.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_in_the_United_States
Interesting that i dont see skiing. Also the tv ratings for the olympics are the lowest theyve ever been in america LOL

variety.com/2018/tv/news/tv-ratings-2018-winter-olympics-new-low-1202702071/

I already posted the link for cricket in England. Everyone knows tv ratings mean very little there because they dont have antisiphoning laws which means all their sports gets broadcast on pay tv. Thesecompanies also tend to be coy with releasing numbers but the 201p ashes series averaged 20% of the tv audience in the UK and that was desite being on a paid channel. Not to mentiom its in everu paper and tabloid unlike skiing in America

F

>500m
400m actually
>1000m
You meant 800m I guess
>3000m
3000m steeple please

How do I know you're a snownigger?

Ravenshead Reds?

FUCK I remember playing a Norwegian team in a tournament in Denmark

>massive amount of poor people with nothing else than sports in their lives, who play sports and have nothing else to do than stay in good physical shape
>also too poor to participate in this type of sport
>now THAT is a real competitive sport t. pekka
that's just sad and dishonest

Long distance running is nothing like short distance running, that's why Usain Bolt doesn't compete in the marathon. The point is that outside the 15 or so summer sports that can be loosely compared to 15 winter sports, there are a shit ton of other sports that are completely different. A cross country skier would be much better at freestyle skiing than a marathon runner would be at gymnastics.

>Alf Inge Haaland
>Lars Bohinen

Forest were such a fucking based team in the 90s

>nordic countries
>skii against each other once every 4 years amd pretend theyre relevant and get flooded by muslims the rest of the time while having no sport to watch

>rest of the world
>enjoy playing against each other at highly competitive competitons like the fifa world cup, rugby world cup, cricket world cup, formula 1, various tennis opens, and golf tours, all while enjoying their own competitive all-year-round domesticc leagues for football, american football, basketball, baseball, cricket, amd rugby, and to top it all of get to go head to head every 4 years at the summer olympics which is infinitely more competitive and watched

KEK imagine being nordic

>winter sports vs summer sports debate
this is not up for debate, summer sports will always be more popular, varied and historically relevant than winter sports since most people throughout history decided to settle down near land/water, and not snow/ice like some autistic nordics. that being said, i think it's nice we have both.

Details details

I wish I was norweigan and white

Imagine being this bad at trolling while also being from Australia. It's like being black with a small penis.

>Short distance running fall under Cross-country. It's just that they don't compete in 100m and 200m etc. But they could.
If that's the case then it's even less varied than I thought. A distance runner would never be able to compete in the 100m sprint and vice versa.

If you refuse to educate yourself on the basics of a subject, what makes you think your argument on said subject holds any weight.

>Long distance running is nothing like short distance running
If 100m and 200m Skiing was a thing, the long distance skiiers wouldn't have a chance either though.

I think we are trying to make two different points. I'm talking about variation between themselves, against the narrative that the Winter games are similiar.

>A cross country skier would be much better at freestyle skiing than a marathon runner would be at gymnastics.
Absolutely not? A cross country skier would break his neck trying to do some of the tricks that is required to even qualify for national competitions.

it's probably genetics tbqh

Yes, imagine being Nordic
It must really suck

yes, normies settled south. now look at them. not a single sunbelter country on this planet that isn't a complete shithole.

>being this furious at your pathetic reality
K E K

>Finland
>most known for the dudesons amd swearing a lot
LMAO

Oh, you misunderstood/I formulated poorly. If 100m and 200m actually was a thing, a long distance skier would have no chance. It would be the same as in running.

Look at the clock m8, I'm not going to look up details when I know the one I am talking to will understand my point. The argument is unchanged.

Your original argument is ridiculous. Claiming that speed skating has too many events but cross country and biathlon don't is just straight up double-standards.

That was another Norwegian. But I will answer anyways. Speed skating can be compared to Swimming while Cross Country can be compared to Running/Race walking.

Do you think Swimming has too many events compared to Running?

And just like a cross-country skiier would do badly at slalom, a marathon runner would do badly at hurdles. Running is just as varied as skiing, the difference is that the summer Olympics has many other events other than running.

How much of America’s success is swimming and stoner skiing

The only issue I have with swimming is that shit like butterfly, breast stroke and backstroke have separate events. If you remove them, I'd be fine with the number of medals swimming has compared to running. It's not like there's a medal for skating backwards or sideways.

Now you mix again. Much bigger difference between cross-country and slalom, than running and hurdles.

But yes, Running is just as varied as Cross-Country. And yes, there are more events in the summer Olympics. Still doesn't mean that there is less variation between the Winter Games.

And in Speed skating you have long-track and short track. Difference is the amount of rounds they have to take, but the same distances.

A cross country skiier would at least be able to get to the bottom of the slope in one piece. A marathon runner would not even have the upper body strength to perform a basic manoeuvre.

A Cross country skiier would crash and likely get a serious injury if he tried to match the speeds that are required to compete at even a national level, if not regional. Of course he could take of his skis and sit on his ass all the way down, but a marathon runner could climb over the hurdles too.

I am 100% certain a marathon runner would do better at hurdles than a Cross country skier at Slalom.

A Cross country taking it easy down the slope, is like a marathon runner having much shorter hurdles to jump over.

They travel the same distances in some cross country and biathlon events. Alpine skiiers travel similar distances in the various slalom events, it's just that the gates are spread out at different distances. I agree that short track is a meme considering it's more about not crashing than it is about actually skating fast. But even if you ignore short track, long track has 14 events compared to cross country or biathlon's 11/12. That's not exactly a big difference. Short track is also dominated by Koreans while long track is dominated by the Dutch, so it's not like one country statpads both speed skating styles in the same way that Americans do in swimming.

The point is that a skier knows how to ski, even if he won't be able to pull off any of the complex manouvres in freestyle skiing. A malnourished Kenyan wouldn't be able to pull himself up onto a pommelhorse or support his own weight on the rings. The sports I was comparing were cross-country/marathon and freestyle/gymnastics. Hurdles has nothing to do with my argument.

>Hungary beating Norway
Am I supposed to trust this? What's your source?

Although if we are going to bring hurdles into it, a cross country skiier would be much better at slalom then a marathon runner would be at hurdles.

Imagine being this mad over sports you apparently don't even care about

There are less distances in Cross country and Biathlon, you could argue that both should have more distances if ice skating has the amount it has. I think cross country and biathlon are balanced though. Maybe speed skating should lose a few distances. I don't really care about this though.

Again you try to mix "skiing" as one thing. Doesn't the Javelin thrower know how to walk?

The skier wouldn't be able to pull of any manouvres in freestyle skiing though? Not without training first. He could learn to pull off some simple ones just like you and me could, but he has very little advantage from his background (other than stamina, strenght, balance etc. due to being a top athlete).

The Kenyan marathon runners wouldn't to better or worse in gymnastics. It's pretty comprable I think.

Ah yes, the horrors of being Nordic.

>The Kenyan marathon runners wouldn't to better or worse in gymnastics. It's pretty comprable I think.
You must not watch summer sports at all if you genuinely think this. Even just comparing body types, the difference between skiiers is marginal compared to the difference between distance runners and gymnasts. Even sprinters have a completely different body type to distance runners.

>Australian
>have to play some literally who? Retarded variation of Rugby just to avoid being embarrassed by New Zealand.

And you must not watch winter sports at all if you think a cross country skier could successfully do
competitive tricks in cross country skiing.

>Even just comparing body types
>Difference between skiiers
Difference between feeters? Mixing up Alpine etc. and Cross Country athletes as skiiers makes no sense in this context. Why do you continue to do it? Winter sport athletes. An Alpinist don't refer to himself as a skier.

They also have VERY different body types though. The skiers best at sprinting (finishing) are larger and heavier with more muscle, while the best longer distance skiers are smaller (typically). We don't have 100m and 200m, but being big with muscle would be an even bigger advantage just like in sprinting.

Pic related, ski-jumper. Google the alpinist Aksel Lund Svindal, or the cross country skier Johannes Klæbo. All very different body types.

competitive tricks in free style*

omg goebbels is second

user he is retarded he thinks "skiing" is in and of itself an activity. He doesnt understand to many people its like saying "running" or "walking" Don't bother explaining they juat hate every sport they aren't good at and add some false prestige to those they are.

Lmfao of course the german comes in second behind kamil stoch

They are not good at real sports.... just ice and chess.

Handball

The insane amount of shit posting from the non anglosphere countries is pathetic. Enjoy stat padding your olympic tables with 27 varieties of the same event. How the fuck can you even have sports that are both timed and judged and the the temerity to award them seperate medals? Can't wait for global warming to expose the fuck out of you snow niggers.

Jesus Bilbo is angry today

Hey guys I don't autistically post why i hate soccer or it doesn't count in some flag pissing contest when the world cup is on. If you hate winter sports to the point of autistic rage maybe just avoid Cred Forums for a few weeks?

I never said a cross-country skiier could compete at the top level in free-style skiing. I simply said that they could make it to the bottom without crashing. Although having said that, apparently James Woods (the British freestyle skiier) had a go on the alpine slalom and apparently he was one of the most naturally talented slalom skiers our coaches had seen. Quite frankly, I trust the opinion of a professional coach more than I trust the opinion of some random Norwegian poster on an anonymous imageboard.

And you're just cherry-picking with the point about the body types. I can do the same with any sport (compare Lionel Messi to Adebayo Akinfenwa, they're both footballers). Obviously the different disciplines will favour different traits but you have to be blind to think that the difference in average body types between sprinters is the same between skiing and running.

You've spent this entire thread doing that though. I don't hate Winter sports, otherwise I wouldn't even know enough about them to have this argument. But to claim that skiing is just as varied as athletics is factually incorrect.

I could make it down the hill user. I Could run 100m 200m 1500m and used to be able to do 26 miles. Other than maybe the marathon none of these are particularly impressive. You must understand to me I can skate as naturally as I can walk, so there isn't the same thing to you where you think like skating might be a sport. Its like you saying on foot athletics share common element since they are all on foot. While I cant say I am as natural at skiing. To people doing it all year, who started as toddlers "can you ski" is like saying "can you cross the street"
You dont really know much hence my correcting you thats all. But I learned you werent here to learn.

>He doesnt understand to many people its like saying "running" or "walking"
No-one claims that race-walk is a vastly different even to marathon though. However some people apparently believe that slalom and long distance skiing as as different as running and flying.

Athletics is objectively more varied than skiing though. With skiing, you have alpine, cross-country and ski jump. Athletics has long-distance, short-distance, jumping and throwing. 4 > 3, therefore athletics is more varied, it's simply indisputable.

The frictionless properties of skiing high speed create more room for variance than on foot yes. There are ski sports quite literally based on your ability to fly.
Also ski cross, Moguls, Super G(similar enough to downhill sure) I could go on but now its already 5>4. Again you are trying to turn this into a weird pissing contest.

>I simply said that they could make it to the bottom without crashing.
Now you are mixing Alpine and Free-Style, and if you never said that, it means that your original point had no point. You implied that a cross country skier would have some advantage in the sport, other than the physical part.

>apparently he was one of the most naturally talented slalom skiers our coaches had seen
Probably because he has great balance which is vital in both. What is your point? He is a natural talent, ok, so what. A footballer can be a natural talent in skiing too.

>And you're just cherry-picking with the point about the body types.
No, I'm not really though, just showing the extremes. The average ski jumper is super-thin, the average Alpinist are big (but not too big as he would lose balance) and the average cross country skier is "fit".

>Obviously the different disciplines will favour different traits but you have to be blind to think that the difference in average body types between sprinters is the same between skiing and running.
Cross country skiing doesn't have a as big difference because you need strenght all over. But they have the difference between big and small that you see in running. I don't think I claimed that the bodytypes here was the same though. I claimed that between the winter athletes, there is an equal difference as between summer athletes.

>Football
Not relevant at all and can't be compared. There is 11 players on the field with different roles.

Because winter sports are for the wealthy thats why theres no niggers at winter olympics even from america (niggerland)

its easier for a poor nigger to pickup a basketball and shoot into a hoop than get 1000$+ worth of ski equipment and snow turns them off

>However some people apparently believe that slalom and long distance skiing as as different as running and flying.
Why are you a faggot?

>Skiing
Is gravity an athlete?

If you're going to include ski-cross and super-g as different versions of skiing then I can include hurdles, steeplechase and as completely different versions of running. Freestyle events like moguls are judged events and are more similar to gymnastics, which is why I didn't include them in the comparison.

Both Akinfenwa and Messi are forwards.

Oh my god

Your argument is that because there are more competitions that fall under the umbrella term "athletics" during the Official Summer Olympics, than competitions that fall under - what category exactly - it's more varied?

You know that it's physically possible to have skis on your feet and throw a javelin right?

But they don't have the same role.

>Your argument is that because there are more competitions that fall under the umbrella term "athletics" during the Official Summer Olympics, than competitions that fall under - what category exactly - it's more varied?
Pretty much, although I was talking about a more general sense rather than what the Olympics define as a sport. There are simply more things you can do on foot rather than on skis, which is why the variety is far greater. I don't know what the fuck you were trying to argue.

Fine, Peter Crouch and Akinfenwa, they're both strikers. The point is that it's cherry picking.

If a sport isnt based on foot or skis.its irrelevant.
This would be a sick sport.

Name a single relevant sport on skis. Everyone knows Lionel Messi and Usain Bolt. No-one knows who Dario Cologna is.

>appeal to popularity.
Gee if only this was a sports board instead of a who can be the most normie competition.

>Scotland
>Great at rugby

The fuck am I reading?

Comparing Cross Country with Athletics, then you must compare the aspects of Athletics that are transferable over to Cross Country skiing in it's current form. 100m and 200m in skiing do not exist, but it could. They could throw javelins and diskos etc. too. They could jump (not as high without speed) etc. But they don't because it's not transfered over.

>There are simply more things you can do on foot
Like what?

>I don't know what the fuck you were trying to argue.
The variation between the Winter Olympic Games are just as big as between the Summer Olympic games. My point still stand.

What are you trying to argue?

And you still think football is comparable. Imagine being this challenged.

And no, it wasn't cherry picking. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking
My (extreme) examples do not contradict my position that the body types between the different winter olympic athletes are just as varied as the ones between the summer olympic athletes.

How are the Winter Olympics more varied? Not only do the Winter Olympics have less sports, a wider variety of activities occur in the Summer Olympics. The difference between weightlifting and archery is greater than the difference between pretty much any Winter Olympic sport. I'm not deliberately trying to belittle the Winter Olympics, it's a simple fact that the Summer Olympics are more varied because you can play more sports in warm weather.

Norway is probably the only 1st world country that's atrocious in every major team sport (football, hockey, basketball)

BETWEEN THEMSELVES the winter sports are JUST AS varied as the summer sports are BETWEEN THEMSELVES.

The difference between luge and biathlon is just as great as the difference between weightligting and archery.

Wait how is that different from Finland?

We are ranked nr. 9 in Hockey though

And top 5 for men's handball and nr. 1 for women's. Handball is more competitive o

more competitive between nations* than Basketball.

we're not atrocious in hockey, we're competing among the top league of nations. if we were atrocious we wouldn't be there, or the sport would be irrelevant.

Not really. The objective in both luge and biathlon is the same, finish faster than everyone else. You could have used curling or ice hockey as an example of a completely different sport to any of the other Winter Olympic sports. Like I said, the Winter Olympics still have variety between the events, it's just not AS varied as the Summer Olympics. I don't get why you're so upset about an objective fact.

Actually Curling and hockey are the same since the objective in both is the same, get more points than the other team. Or more broadly speaking to win. Really the only sport with any variety is soccer because the goal is to tie.

Alpine/Curling then.
Ice hockey/Cross country.
I could go on.

As I have written countless of times, BETWEEN the winter sports, the difference (variety), between the winter sports, are just as big as the difference (variety) BETWEEN the summmer sports. The winter sports compared to the other winter sports, compared to the summer sports compared to the other summer sports.

I don't get why you have this much trouble reading. Am I really that bad at English?

Exactly. Therefore the Summer Olympics are more varied.

You finally made me see the way. Winter sports is all the same sport since you just try to win. But summer olymoics have too sports. The one where you just try and win, and soccer where the objective is to tie the game 0-0.
Sorry Norway he is right.

How will I every recover

This

But also this

Pretty much all Winter sports either favour speed, agility, endurance, precision or a mix of those attributes. There isn't really any Winter Olympic sport that favours pure strength in the same way that weightlifting does. There isn't really any Winter Olympic sport that tests your throwing strength.

Glad to see we've finally reached an understanding. Educating brainlets like you is my sole purpose in life.

our doped skiers shit all over your doped skiers

True. But most of the sports in the Winter olympics are very different from each other. Just like the sports in the Summer olympics. You tried to set a false narrative that the different Winter Olympics (overall) weren't just as specialized as the different Summer Olympics (overall).

Is there a sport in the summer olympics that favour calculation of your hearth rate/mental state/physical state as Biathlon do?

Nice grammar

slutt å ta agnet a gutta, jævla nyhomser

>Is there a sport in the summer olympics that favour calculation of your hearth rate/mental state/physical state as Biathlon do?
The Modern Pentathlon, it has a running/shooting segment like the biathlon. It also has three other events that the competitors have to master.

>tfw they stole her

They suck in summer Olympics, what else can they do, their Winters suck and our cold

>tfw you didn't protect her smile
feels bad

nr. 6 per capita in the summer Olympics

It's because of our absurd skiing culture, we win a lot of skiing competitions.

We're not particularly good at anything else, HOWEVER we are doing quite OK for being such a small nation.

What did you mean by this?

I think it is fun that norway is doing so well. after nearly a decade of us vs uk shitposting suddenly the entirety of Cred Forums has channel their anger towards fucking Norway

Is Cred Forums actually angry at us? (I'm a visitor from Cred Forums)

Do somebody have the 500 skating record that we made today in a webm or something?

Olympic records are irrelevant tbH. He was 0.11 seconds away from beating the sea level WR and 0.44 away from beating the WR.

>What is the rest of the world doing wrong, that Norway is doing right?
Realizing that the IOC hasn't listed epinephrine or salbutamol as a banned substances

*respectful heavy breathing*

...

wife beating

Wait, are they together? A couple?

*takes two puffs of albuterol*

that's her son

>fastest man on the planet
>fastest skater on the planet
>longest ski jumper on the planet
>fastest skier on the planet

damn, how can non-Norwegian boys compete

you didn't know?

True, conceived in nagano at right after dæhlie crossed the five mile mark if I remember correctly.

>playing in the snow is a sport

lel

No. Good for him then. She is beautiful.

>Tv commercials are a sport
Kek

They dominate cross country skiing in the same way that the Dutch dominate long-track speed skating. Those events have a lot of medals so they end up high on the medal table because of it (although admittedly Norway does well in a few other events too). If you include medals won by East/West Germany and the USSR, Germany and Russia would come out on top in the all-time Winter Olympic medal table. I'd say those are far more impressive sporting nations, especially considering they do well in many other sports outside of the Winter Olympics. The whole "per capita" argument is just silly, India has a massive population and they don't dominate the Olympics. Liechtenstein have the most medals per capita by far, no-one considers them to be the greatest sporting country in history.

no, just on the same team

i literally know the guy that owns the team, we're in heimevernet together

ask me anything

>fastest man on the planet

Usain Bolt is norsh?

>hockey
>major team sport

Field hockey is the third-most followed sport in the world.

Can he set me up with Jessie?

for the right price, maybe.

Actually not true. We have more than USSR+Russia combined.

Same with Germany+East-germany combined. They have fewer winter olympics medals than us.

USSR + Russia = 125 Winter gold medals
Norway = 118 Winter gold medals
Then Russia/USSR also have a shit ton of Summer gold medals too.

I beg your pardon, I was thinking about total medals, not only gold medals.

Germany = 136 Winter gold medals

At least we beat RU+USSR after this olympics, when adding our 11 golds and their 0 golds?

The average age of the Norwegians on here is very low.

That is true, although Russia + USSR have only competed in 15 Winter Olympics compared to Norway's 22 Winter Olympics.

>The whole "per capita" argument is just silly
Not at all. It was far more impressive that Iceland made it through to the World Cup than when Germany did the same.

Fair enough. I still am proud that we have the most medals in total, and particularly because we only have a small population.

>USSR + Russia = 125 Winter gold medals
Pointless calculation. USSR had several athletes from Ukraine, Kazakhstan etc. who won them medals and competed for them in team events.

>118 Winter gold medals
Also wrong. Norway has 129 gold medals and counting.

Also they competed as a Unified team in the 1992 Winter Olympics, where they won a further 9 gold medals.

Only a handful of athletes compete at the Olympics. It doesn't matter if there are a billion people in your country if only a few from each country can compete at the Olympics. Wealth is far more important than population when it comes to developing Olympic athletes due to the cost of training and travelling. And Norway is one of the most well-off countries in the world.

bongs btfo

The pool of talents counts a great deal. If you disagree then I will never speak to you again because such an obvious truth can only be ignored by an inbecile. Sorry about being rude.

>Only a handful of athletes compete at the Olympics. It doesn't matter if there are a billion people in your country if only a few from each country can compete at the Olympics.
Of course it matters. A larger population will always give a larger talent pool if you compare two countries where the sports have an equal importance.

Good point. Now I am completely certain that we are more impressive than Russia in winter sports.

Sure, having a large population means your more likely to produce a great athlete because more people are born. But surely you can't deny that having the wealth and infrastructure to develop athletes is vastly more important than population.

>But surely you can't deny that having the wealth and infrastructure to develop athletes is vastly more important than population
I will agree that it does not help you one bit if you have a large population if you lack the culture and interest around the sport. But if you have both, then you are set on a path to become the best in it, I firmly believe. Great Britain aren't good at skiing because you don't have many places to ski and thus you do not care nor have a culture around it. But let's say that the british isles had a lot of snow and mountains like we have here in Norway. I imagine you would dominate the sport a lot more than us then, because you have 60-70 million people to draw talents from.

Nepal is a very mountainous country and has six times the population of Norway. Yet they have zero Winter Olympic medals because they don't have the infrastructure or wealth to develop athletes. Obviously if Great Britain had more snow and mountains we'd be a lot better at skiing, but that's because we're a well-off nation that can afford to invest money into training skiiers. We've invested money into our skeleton programme and we're now tied with the USA for the most gold medals in skeleton history. Not because of our population, because very few people here actually practice skeleton racing here, but because we have the infrastructure and money to develop good skeleton racers.

this thread has about 420 more replies than it deserves

Nepal don't have the same skiing culture nevertheless tho. I agree with you on this, that you need to fund the sport as well. That comes with the interest.

You're mentioning that not a lot of brits are practicing skeleton racing. But here in Norway, when it comes to skiing, literally everyone practice it. Like probably 95% of all norwegians that aren't somali or polish. I think this is the advantage Norway has (plus we spend 5 times as much money as other countries on talent recruiting and development).

Norway's extreme interest for skiing means our pool of talents is a lot higher than our population would suggest when comparing with other nations. Take Germany. I'm gonna go ahead and assume that they don't have 4 million ski enthusiasts among their many more million people(or maybe they do), which means we kiiiinda have a larger pool then they have. And then you have the funding. It's our national sport, so it is taken extremely serious. All this results in our success. I think this makes us compete with larger nations like Germany and Russia, because our talent pool is so big even tho we're a smaller nation. Your point about funding is also sound, of course.

yeah but the talent pool of the rich country can be much more effectively utilised

no point in having the next potential GOAT in your borders if he is unable to get involved in organised sport