Why is tiny Norway so good at sports? It's more than Erling Haaland(www.csmonitor.com)
13 pointsby RickJWagner7 hours ago7 comments
  • charlieyu14 hours ago
    An entire article that doesn't even mention Magnus Carlsen. Waste of internet bandwidth.
    • sparky_z3 hours ago
      Sign of the times, I'm sad to say. The Internet is just chock full of them these days. It's gotten to the point where most of the articles on the NYTimes frontpage don't even mention him.
  • petterroea5 hours 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.

  • password543216 hours 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.
  • weezing5 hours 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.
    • dpark5 hours 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.

  • fragmede7 hours ago
    Good read. Makes me want to move to Norway.
    • inglor_cz6 hours 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.

      • xenospn5 hours 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-cot7 hours ago
    The traditional conflict between enjoying short-term gratification and reaching long-term goals.
    • DangitBobby6 hours ago
      In this case it seems like "enjoying the process" might lead to more short and long term gratification.
      • bell-cot5 hours 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:)

  • throw83939r0r7 hours ago
    They have unfair advantage, they should be banned!