Why is tiny Norway so good at sports? It's more than Erling Haaland

Why is tiny Norway so good at sports? It's more than Erling Haaland(csmonitor.com)

12 points by RickJWagner 2 hours ago | 11 comments

petterroea 52 minutes ago |

Recently there's a few articles critiquing the Norwegian system, arguing that we are going towards the "American model" as described by this article. The second kids are scored, they are relentlessly head hunted and not allowed to be kids.

I guess they still have it nice compared to the US, but is that a Norway thing or a US thing? I bet other countries are similar to us.

password54321 1 hour ago |

No, this is just pseudo-science and resembles educational research where they try to find a causation to things that are probably just attributed to genetics. Think about genetics determining the size of your engine and motivation being the amount of energy supplied to it.

weezing 1 hour ago |

Their ski jumpers cheated and had almost flying suits instead of regular ones, their cross-country skiers were all "asthmatic" and used clenbuterol. They are kinda famous for systemic cheating at this point.

dpark 57 minutes ago | |

> They are kinda famous for systemic cheating at this point.

Is that really a Norway thing or a professional sports thing? Think of all the disqualifications in the Tour de France spanning many nations.

fragmede 2 hours ago |

Good read. Makes me want to move to Norway.

inglor_cz 1 hour ago | |

Beware of the weather, though. It may be geniunely soul-crushing for someone used to sunny skies.

As I am growing older, I also feel a tug to move from Central Europe to maybe the Mediterranean, precisely because of the winters. And Norwegian winters are even more dark and rainy.

xenospn 40 minutes ago | | |

Norwegian Summers are actually pretty close to what you would call winter if you grew up around the Mediterranean or California. And Norwegian winters are just a dark, cold, and wet void.

bell-cot 2 hours ago |

The traditional conflict between enjoying short-term gratification and reaching long-term goals.

DangitBobby 1 hour ago | |

In this case it seems like "enjoying the process" might lead to more short and long term gratification.

bell-cot 1 hour ago | | |

But not short-term gratification for the too-competitive parents of the imagined-potential-elite kids.

(No comparison intended to quarterly-results-obsessed American business exec's:)

throw83939r0r 2 hours ago |

They have unfair advantage, they should be banned!