American Reacts to Norway’s DOMINANCE in the Winter Olympics
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- čas přidán 23. 09. 2022
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Americans tend to not pay attention to winter sports since the winter season in the United States is pretty mild. That is exactly why I was caught completely off guard when I heard that Norway is by FAR the most dominant country in Winter Olympics history. I am very excited to react and learn about why exactly Norway is so adept at winter sports, from an American point of view. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
Besides Cross country skiing, ski-jump, nordic combined, biathlon, speed skating, freestyle skiing (snowboard and ski)….Norway have also had the best alpine skiers for many years. Now we have become quite good in summer sports too. We have the best 1500m and 5000 M runner, the best 400 M hurdler, two of the best football players in the world, one of the best tennis players in the world and one of the best golf player, the worlds best thriatlon athlete, worlds best chess player…..
Winter sports, especially skiing, is the soul of Norway.
But it is not only that, we are for a reason I don't know able to develop exceptionaly tallented athletes in a wide range of sports.
Haaland, the hottest player in football at the moment, Casper Ruud that just played in the US open final, Jacob Ingebrigtsen, Karsten Warholm, Magnus Carlsen, Tobias Foss, Kristian Bloomenfelt. This is some if the absolute best atlethes in the world in some of the biggest summer sports and there is quite a few I don't mention.
@@MotRi1986 dont forget Mol and Sørum 😉
Only cross country skiing
@@MotRi1986 Do not forget Victor Hovland 😀
Can confirm that snowboarding is also popular in Norway. We got silver medal in Snowboard Big Air in this Olympics
Yes, it is now, but it's not old and traditional. Snowboarding was more or less exported from America to Norway/Scandinavia after the 90s, and not the other direction as with the skiing events.
@@hemmper AFTER the 90s? So in the 00s? Wrong either way, it came here late 70ies and gained popularity from late 80s into the 90s.
Kleveland won slopestyle last year aswell
@@hemmper I think you should do your research before making such claims.. what about Terje Haakonsen and Daniel Franck? They were some of the best in the world in the 90’s
Here in Norway we take a boatload of medals in the winter olympics for granted, so much so that we get traumatized as a nation if we perform poorly at one olymic game.
PS school sports is not really a thing here, we have gym class of course, but sport is outside school. The kids join local teams for whatever sport they are interested in
That's what I was wondering. Norway has had so much success that it is probably a little expected at this point!
@@TylerWalkerCZcams The most important takeaway from his comment is that sport and school don't mix - in Norway.
True bro
Yes, the 1988 winter olympics in Calgary with exactly zero golds for Norway was the needed shock to take action and start the Olympiatoppen center with a lot bigger budgets for the athletes so that many of them didn't have to work normal jobs. This of course also because Norways own olympics in Lillehammer in 1994 was only six years away and it would have been quite embarrassing not winning any gold on home turf. The state investment paid off as Norway won 9 and 10 golds in the 1992 and 1994 olympics respectively.
@@CZcams_Stole_My_Handle_Too You do have "sportsdays" and you do have I.e. soccer, handball and volleyball teams that plays against other school. We also had a chess team and athletics. However, there is no training for those teams, except regular chess - and the local clubs gives the real activities. In the school matches, the pupils elect therir teams - which almost always consists of players from one or another club.
Tyler Walker, you should be an honorary citizen of Norway! I love your enthusiasm!❤️❄️
Lol thanks pumagutten, I appreciate it
@@TylerWalkerCZcams I like how you repeatedly say that the USA don't have winter sports or places to practice them. And then pull up a statistic that says you are the second most successful winter sports nation in history 😂
@@Pfizer_Johnson Ha that's a good point! I think a better way of saying it would be that thanks to America's huge population and wealth, we are able to do very well in the winter Olympics even thought only less than 1% of our population has the opportunity to train.
@@TylerWalkerCZcams I agree 👍 That would be a much better assessment. But is only 1% of Americans living in places where snow falls? BTW when are you coming to Norway for a video? I can give you insight videos on CZcams doesn't show you. About Norwegian life, the government, sports and so on.
@@Pfizer_Johnson I'm from the US South & hardly ever snows here,& when it does, it's just couple of inches and is usually gone a day or two later.
i think a big part of the norwegian success in skiing is because of how early people start. I've been skiing since i was 3 years old, and in the the rest of the year i go on roller skis 3 times a week.
That does seem to play a huge part in Norway's success!
@@TylerWalkerCZcams yes - it is a very important part of our success :) Love what you do and by time take it a little step further.
Sure. Every 3 year old own some skies.
We’re definatly best in winter games. But now we’re starting to get good in Summer games too. And we have the Top scorer in Premier League Erling Braut Haaland
Yeah🇧🇻
Yes... Norway has snowboarding. Most definitely! The best snowboarder of all time. Terje Haakonsen
No snowboard olympic gold medals yet, though. Only silvers as far as I know.
@@ErlendBuflod yeah, but still holds several WR but I don't think he actually was so interested in the Olympics
@@ErlendBuflod Håkonsen dominated freestyle competitions in the 1990s. He won the International Snowboard Federation (ISF) World Halfpipe Championships three times: in 1993, 1995 and 1997. In the European Halfpipe Championships, he won all European Championships he participated in (1991,1992, 1993, 1994 and 1997). Håkonsen won the US Open halfpipe championship three times (1992, 1993 and 1995), and Mt. Baker Banked Slalom seven times (1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004 and 2012). He also won the influential Innsbruck Air & Style competition in 1995. In 2007, Håkonsen set a world record for "highest air", when during the qualification round of The Arctic Challenge in Midtstuen, Oslo, he reached 9.8 meters from the top of the quarter pipe with a "backside 360".
I found some winning stats 🤣
Yes, I know. Norway has some of the best snowboarders in the world and consistantly takes golds at the X games. They are especially strong in the slopestyle and big air events. Look up Marcus Kleveland!
Haakonsen disliked the federal skiing federation for hijacking snowboard events in the 90s and refused to participate in the olympics. He is a legend.
Mons Røisland, Ståle Sandbech, Daniel Franck and Kjersti Buaas has silver medals from snowboarding in the olympics.
Its not only winter sports that Norway is punching weel above their weight class. So many sports have norwegian athlets in the top. Football, running, chess, tennis, golf etc.
I think a big part of it that maybe a lot of people don't consider, is that our almost unparalelled social safety net gives a lot more young people the freedom to focus on a sports career without having to work full-time on the side from the moment you're able, which is otherwise a much bigger gamble that you would only ever pursue if you showed an immediate and intense aptitude for, and even then would probably be reliant on relatively wealthy parents to support you early on. In Norway this barrier is much reduced.
@@Arbaaltheundefeated Norwegians has been good in sports long before we reached anything like the welfare state sometime around the 1950'ies.
I do not think any socioeconomic variables will explain anything about Norwegians sports and sport results. But nice try!
@@SvenEven So because there were some good athletes 70 years ago too, our current social structure can't possibly have anything to do with the state of things today? Great logic there bud.
@@Arbaaltheundefeated What makes you think that there is anything wrong with my logic?
Because I disagree with you? Or because I doubt that socio-economic factors play any role in explaining the Norwegians successes in the various sports?
In the tides and ebbs of international sports we are in a period where the Norwegians excel in many sports. In a few years everything may look very different. Should we expect that to coincide with a deterioration of the Norwegian welfare state?
@@SvenEven No, and no. It was your assertion that socio-economic factors *could not* play any role in explaining Norwegian successes in modern sports because there were Norwegians succeeding without it before. But sure, continue to try to paint me as the one making the baseless assertions. What is wrong with your logic is you're arguing exactly like every religious fundamentalist typically does. I only made the obvious suggestion that it *helps* , which I think you would struggle to find any coach or profiled athlete who would disagree with, but you are clearly ideologically opposed to it on a fundamental level, so couldn't even accept that much. Your flawed logic is that something that only proves the welfare state is not 100% solely responsible for our current success (which I never claimed it was), is your indisputable proof that the welfare state couldn't possibly have anything to do with it.
We Norwegians start skiing as soon as you start walking as a child. People go skiing in kindergarten and at school and we have long winter months which are good for winter sports.🙂
Most Norwegians i know well have never had skis on their feet, but I wont generalize andre say Norwegians never ski... ;)
@@fredrikz most «athletic» norwegian families will take their children along for cross country skiing, alpine mountains, and other winter activities. I believe that the norwegian populace has one thing going for them, compared to most other countries. And the thing they got going for them, is that a large percentage of their population are competing in some type of sport, and are much more fit than the average human.
In Sweden there´s a region called Jämtland-Härjedalen that some people still call East Tröndelag becouse it was part of Norway between the years 1150 and 1650.
This region is home to many swedish winter sport atletics and regulary hosts World Cup biathlon and downhill events. So the norwegian DNA still is strong even across the border.
Jämtland is a great place too, now since its stupid close to my home we regularly used to drive over and spend weekends, weeks, days or just quick shoppingtrips in Jämtland as a whole. INTEGRATE JÄMTLAND-HÄRJEDALEN BACK INTO NORWAY WE WANT IT BACK
@@muninn9674 Well, a number of Östtrönders including me wouldn´t mind belonging to Norway again.
Norway is always a strong candidate when we go on road trips, always loved it.
Viking DNA is also abundant in the UK, but that hasn't paid off very well for the British in winter sports 🙂
@@svenwesterlund3405 well with the way your country is headed i can understand. The only problem is I borderhop for cheap mead and food so most here wouldnt be as willing 😂
@@hemmper because britain has negligible winters at best. True nords are brought up skiing from the first sign they can, unlike the rest of the world
Skiing in summer: Lysebotn up. You should also check out Karsten Warholm and the Ingebrigsten brothers for summer sports
The US has way more winter snow area than Norway, and more people doing Wintersports than the whole population of Norway. So does Russia and Germany, and also France Italy Canada Sweden china Japan has more winter athletes.
German live in Trøndelag (a coastal part with little snow) and I dont know anyone who do any sport except Handball and Orienteering (a summer sport that Norwegians do more than any other sport)
Norwegians did historically have the strongest Viking warriors in the world, and the best of those came from Trøndelag, so there may also be a genetic factor here.
If you go to Norway in the summer, you'll find people training for cross country skiing wearing what look like very long rollerskates and poles going up and down dale. I long standing Norwegian friend of mine tells my very your children learn to ski using just skis, no poles! Also, a lot of villages/towns have their own ski jumps. It's all just part of their life and something they all do.
There's a saying in Norway "vi er født med ski på beina" which means "we are born with skis on our feet" with we referring to all Norwegians. Before we can walk we are put in a "pulk" every Sunday, if there's enough snow, and as soon as we can walk we start cross country skiing. I started downhill skiing a little after cross country, cause it's nice to have some control of your limbs, so reckon I was about 3 when I started down hill skiing. Got my first snowboard for my 8th birthday and snowboard to this day. Mons from Norway won silver in big air in 2022, so we have some talented snowboarders too. But there's less tradition around snowboard, and when I was growing up in the 90's and early 2000 there were several places you could compete and take classes for downhill skiing, and I had lots of friends who were part of that, but I never heard about any for snowboard.. Since we're a small country with scarce population density, new sports take a little time to get established, because you need a certain amount of interested people before you can make something of it.. Cross country was the way we got around back in the day, and I've cross country skiied to school, because that was the easiest way to get there, so that's very much part of our culture and way of life, so it makes sense we do well in that.
Here in Norway we have many small local ski clubs. this makes many kids ski and this again makes a huge base for talent recruitment
Just to clarify, it's not snow in all of norway every winter. I live on the south west cost and snow is a rarity. Many have cabins in the mountains 3-4 hours drive away, where they can ski. The rest.. well, they just have to cope with the rain
i used to work in a skicenter, and kids around 2 years are in the hills and skiing. so its normal to start young.
Like my Norwegian family, a lot of it is about growing up on skis, plus the concept of "friluftsliv," Norwegians love for, enjoyment of the outdoor life, no matter the weather!😀
one of the most important point about norwegian organized sports that the videos didnt touch, is that organized childrens sports is basicaly free of charge.
Good point, and as a former teacher who used to know a lot of families that is essential. You can add the growing tradition of coming together to buy and sell used equipment for the sports. Anyone can afford to participate.
That’s a total lie if I’ve ever seen one.
I think the big secret is really that sports are easily available to the kids, and they arent pushed to become super stars, its for fun, and if they are good at it they might become professionals.
We also have / have had some of the worlds greatest snowboarders. Terje Haakonsen is a living legend all over the world. And Marcus Kleveland is one of the, if not THE, best snowboarders now. You really should check him out. Mind-boggling stuff
Mom took me skiing as soon as I learned how to walk. Yeah, this is just how it's done. My primary school had winter activity days and one day where the whole school went on a 2km long skiing trip each year, that way everyone at least learned the basics even if they didn´t own proper skiis. Learning to even just stand on the skiis is part of the culture.
As someone who is from Norway and Trøndelag, I can tell you skiing is something you just grow up with. It's more than just another sport, it's an winter activity so many do just for fun. It's such a common activity. I can't even count the amounts of times I have had skiing trips during school. Which makes sense since my school was close to an area where they have skiing paths and where ski shooters (idk the english name) train. I remember kids collecting empty bullet shells for fun XD.
We sometimes went to where there are those huge ski jumping slides, for obvious reasons we never used them, only walked up the stairs for the veiw. We didn't really go there just for seeing those tho, it was just a good distance away where we could bike there. Other times we would go ice skating, but because we always used natural ice formed on fields (like a grassless football field), it was a bit of a gamble becuase we couldn't always be sure if it had been mocked of the snow yet. There have been times it wasn't and it was sad. This was with school btw.
One time when a competition was held there, mine and many other classes and schools got to go watch it. I was lucky and got to join a small group of kids who got a chance to ask a pannel of athletes questions (like a press, only with kids lmao). I don't remember if I asked anything or any other awnsers, but one kid asked an amazing question. 'do you ever get flies in your mouth when jumping?' and the awnser was yes XD.
I learned how to ski in kindergarden, before I could even write. I remember there was this huge empty field right besides the kidergarden where we were sometimes allowed to go ski with staffs (we were only allowed to wear the skiies alone inside the play area, because those staffs are hard and sharp). I probably annoyed the teachers with the amount of times I asked if I could join a group going out there (They only took small groups out there at a time. Likely to make sure nobody got hurt). I loved the feeling of freedom out there and it was fun. It should say something when that is one of the clearest memories from when someone is that young. And I skiied countless times throughout my life. While I never liked competing or going too fast, it was still fun to go on trips. As I mentioned before, it's a very common activity and so I never really thought of it as a sport. It's just a normal thing. Like how many people use bikes. It's always been part of life.
And we do really watch a lot of the winter olympics. I remember we even did it during a class once XD
Winter and snow has always been part of life. Be it skiing, making snowmen or angles, snowball fights where some jerk sometimes put ice inside, sliding, ice skating, building snow caves inside huge piles of snow (I loved doing that XD) or other things. The concept of someone never having seen real snow is so strange. Even more so when snow is often used to symbolise winter and cold. Like...how is it to have a weather so assosiated with a season and a temperature, yet never having seen it in person? That's a genuine question for whoever actually read this far.
Snow is cold and you still got to walk to school even if it's -20c. Although the times snow lasts to May...it's a little too long. Spring sometimes doesn't come at all lmao. The weather here is wild and can change pretty fast. The wind does make everything cold tho, you gotta get it really hot before you feel no chill. Also whenever I can walk outside without a jacket and feel warm is strange enough that I pause for a moment after going through the door XD. So the drawback is that it can be chilly anytime of the year. But it's worth it.
Annnnd that was a TEDtalk from a local Trønder (what we call people from Trøndelag). I'm not even all that sporty, so this just shows how you don't need to have been the really outdoor activity kind of person to have skiied a lot. There is a good reason behind the very common saying: "Norwegians are born with skiies on their feet"
Everything you describe sounds like the place I grew up, in Trøndelag… spooky!
yes we check out xgames , Torstein Horgmo was the first triple cork landed in xgames 2013. and Marcus Kleveland landed the first quad cork in competition . we arent big in pipe , but big air and slopestyle. Markus got 6 gold 4 silvers overall in xgames i think
Thank you for a great reaction! Love your enthusiasm! Another great thing about sports and why we do well in winter sports (or sports generally) is because we work as a team and make each other good. Even though some of them practice individual sports, they often practice together as a team to make sure everybody get to be good. Love from Norway ❤️
Have a look at summer sports, Haaland, Oedegaard,, Rodal, Ingebrigtsen, Warholm.
Don’t forget your wonderful, hard working athlete Jessie Higgins, who is a great representative of the American skiers!
You mean Jessie Diggins.
@@johnmagnorwigelius4465 Yes! Sorry about that!
Snowboarding is big here too.
Ok, so there is no surprise that Norway loves winter sports and a lot of the norwegian people watch it with great interests. We got a saying in Norway which translates directly to "Norwegian are born with a pair of skis on their feets" as said in the video. Cross-country skiing and downhill skiing are widely loved by the Norwegian people, same goes for most winter sports. Snowboarding, curling, bob sledge, and so on. If it's performed on snow and/or ice then we love it. You will not believe the amount of 3 and 4 y/o children rocketing down a hill in a norwegian skiing resort.
Fun fact. I remember a norwegian sport channel that covered the olympic event this one time (i believe it was back in 2010) and the reporter's had 3 transparent pipes standing on their desk. Each pipe referred to a type of medal. For each medal the norwegian athletes won during this event they would drop a ball into the representing pipe. It was their way to visually represent how many medals we had won. At first the length of the pipes was fairly modest as we did expect to win a few, but not a lot. This however turned out to be a humorous joke later on because we won so many gold medals they had to extend the "gold-pipe" twice. At first they were shocked we managed to fill the pipe once and extended it to a point in which they felt they were certain we would never reach. When they had to extend it a second time and people were almost celebrating in the streets. Norwegians are without a doubt a proud people. We may view ourselves as a small (and sometimes insignificant) country in the grand schemes of things, but it only makes us prouder when we make achievements. As in "little Norway outclassed the giants".
I’m from Norway and it’s very normal in Norway for kids to have sports activities after school. Almost all kids try some sport when they are young, and it’s mainly for fun and good health more than becoming really good at it.
Also a thing about Norway: we like to eat healthy and be healthy, so it’s natural that we would like to practice sports when growing up. We don’t usually eat unhealthy food that often either. Obesity isn’t very common here, especially not in kids. Skiing is a common activity we do for fun and social reasons, most often it’s not a competition or practice for competition. Both adults and kids do skiing for just fun. It’s also a good exercising activity and in winter it’s better than going jogging, because all the snow and ice will ruin your jogging trip. No one goes jogging in winter here, we go skiing instead.
Also we don’t get grades in school until we are around 13 years old. Because when you’re a kid that kind of thing can actually ruin your aspiration to learn. Young kids can be really discouraged if they preform poorly, so we don’t want to focus on preforming good, but instead focus on the process of learning and having fun ✨
gotta admit.. O E Bjørndalen is impressive tho.. he kept winnig for a 20 year career into his 40's
All my childhood we would spend the winter up in the mountains going skiing like 12h skiing across the mountains
I was studying in Lillehammer in Norway in 2019, at that time there were many Chinese training there, preparing for the Olympics in China 2022
Magnus Carlsen, warholm, Ingebrigtsen, we have so many athletes outside winter sport, best sporting nation in the world per capita, by far
They did a test of what sport that demands most dedication and amount of training. Avd Cross country skiing ranks as the highest.
To dominate in cross country skiing you have to put in such a ridiculous amount of training,. It is baffling
Calgary 1988 was the worst for norway just 5 medals
Yeah, I’ll never forget it 😳😅
The fact that children are stimulated to enjoy the sport of skiing and later love it, also makes the relation to the sport and the elite athletes competing very easy. We all pretty much understand what the sport is about, and our love for it makes us appreciate the athletes efforts even more. We do not idolize too much, but celebrate our national heroes that brings us glory. :) In a sense we also feel obligated to be among the best of nations as it is our heritage and big part of our national identity. And athletes feel this very strongly to. They are not only competing for themselves, but for our heritage and honor as a leading nation. The political and public support for the sport is very strong, and sponsors are eager to connect their brands to it. The organizing of the sport also reflects on the ambitions we have as a nation. We always try to be ahead on the technical and science end, and we offer education programs that is adapted specifically for young talents that wants to focus on their development into elite athletes, and at the same time give them a solid platform for later specialization into any other area after their sports career.
That was just perfect, as excpected from a Norwegian! Thx.
Hello Tyler. I am a Norwegian. It love all your videos about Norway, making our nation look great. How come you started this channel just a month ago, and all of your stuff is about the good things of Norway?
I'm Swedish and I don't really live near any good ski slopes but I started skiing when I was like 5. Norwegians basically always have slopes nearby no matter where they live and they start skiing as soon as they're old enough to stand on a pair of skis. Sweden also performs pretty well in winter olympics considering we only number 10 million but the Norwegians are in another league entirely. Half our population with more than twice as many medals, I have to congratulate my western neighbors for their remarkable athleticism ⛷️ 🇸🇪❤️🇳🇴
And now we are beginning to do it well in summer sports as well. Look up walholm, and Ingebretsen brothers 😊
I'm Norwegian, so I can give you some reason why Norway are great in winter-olympics. First of all it's important to bring it back to 1988. In that winter-olympics Norway was bad. But something was told during the olympics. Norway would be the host of winter-olympics in 1994.
And with being host of olympics it gave huge sponsorship. And Norwegian athlete federation created something called, in norwegian, "olympiatoppen", in english: "the best and great in olympics". At "Olympia-toppen" athletes and coaches shared information with each other.
And early as 1989 there was signs. The greatest male cross-country-skiier in modern times broke through and won. The norwegian Alpine-adventure startet in 1989. Before 1989-1990 norwegian alpine skiing was seen as a joke. In olympiatoppen it doesn't matter if you're a cross-country skiier, biathlete, alpine, nordic combined, the credo was you can learn something from other athletes
And we spend a shitload of money! Our budgets in cross country skiing and biathlon surpass several of our competitors combined. We develop great athletes, but in skiing what's under the skis counts a lot as well. To say we are the best at that as well is an understatement. We also spend the most money on it. Sweden is a close second.
But check out the US Cross Country Team with Jessie Diggins as the top athlete. She won the World Cup a couple of years ago.
jessica diggins is one of my favourite skiers....i love her enthusiasm and love for skiing, when we cant win i root for jessi
I gotta say, I really enjoy your videos, even though I am Norwegian and I'm maybe not so interested in learning about Norway, your voice is just very nice to listen to while doing other things
Norwegian children often use cross country skies as transport to and from school. I remember when I was a kid we often went skiing after school and in the weekend with our family. First experience with skiing is when you’re hanging behind your father in a pulk as an toddler. Skiing and winter sport is a very integrated part of Norwegian life and upbringing.
Thats very rare, you must be from the countryside
And BTW - I _LOVE_ that you seemingly love every aspect of Norway so much. It warms my heart dearly ❤
Regarding climate, the US has hosted the Winter Olympics 4 times - more than any other nation. They have 470 ski resorts in 37 states (Wiki). NOR team traveled to Italy to train before the Beijing games. In the Tokyo summer games 2020 the US got 0,34 medals per capital (1 mil). Norway got 1,48 p.c. (1 mil).
*capita
snowboarding is very popular in ski slopes in Norway. It was popular already in the 80's.
Almost anywhere in Norway, there will be ski-courses and/or alpine slopes because of our fortunate snowy weather and our landscape. Just 10 minutes from my childhood home we had a pretty small and steep alpine slope and even a small ski-jump section. Me and my brother used to go there at least TWICE a week :P
As a German: it´s allways a good fight with the Norwegians - love it
Norway's got snowboarders 100%
I can ski and I'm only 11 years old but I've been standing since I was 3 or 4 I don't remember but a long time.
Birk Ruud is a huge favourite amongst many of us! He won gold medal in Beijing 2022 in big air freestyle. He lost his father less than a year prior to this due to cancer. He is loved by all of us for his amazing kindness and good heart. Here is a recap of his final in Beijing 2022 czcams.com/video/DZVU6LygG-0/video.html
Fun watching your videos
❤️🇳🇴 Love from Norway 🇳🇴❤️
I live in Norway, and although my family has done so for generations, I HATE snow and winter. Love summer, when we can swim in the ocean. The temperature around Oslo fjord is often reaching 22 and sometimes as high as 25 degrees celsius in some places. The air temperatures can get above 30 degrees celsius too. Live 20 minutes from the cost, less than 2 hours south of Oslo. The cost here is beautiful...
In school we have one day in the winter where almost the whole school goes either skiing or ice skating. This is normally for the elementary schools.
skiing from the age of about 2 years is probably part of this answer. It is necessary to ski from one place to another in winter or take a boat/ship. I worked with a man who was born in the French alps and he had to ski to school in the winter. Sometimes there is so much snow you cant just scoop it off when you need to go somewhere.
Thats funny. We actually do have foreign olympic teams coming here for the Norwegians to train them. My friend worked around them a little while (not sports related work on her part). I cant remember but I think it may have been Japanese. Im sure that wasnt the first time we took in a team to train them.
Easy to think from these videos that it's "only" winter sports. But we have world class athletes in many different sports: Football (soccer), Beach Volleyball, Track and Fields (not sprinters though), tennis, golf, chess etc.
20:25 Yes, we have Snowboarding, and also Snowboarding and Ski competitions, though I don't know exactly how popular that is, if the Snowboarding is part of the Winter Olympics or not, I don't really follow sports. But we do have competitions every now and again in Aalsheia where people compete against each other for the best jump, tricks, and/or other categories, and a lot of these jumps are insane and probably even death-defying too, it's really quite spectacular to watch.
Love your commentaries, as a Norwegian it warms my heart❤️
It's worth noting that when they are talking about 93% of 25 year olds have at one point taken part in organised sports, the vast majority of this is in soccer. I grew up in a small district in northern Norway with about 30,000 people. In this district there is now 13 active football clubs (not sure how many teams). So on average one club for less than 2,500 inhabitants (of all ages). In addition to soccer, there are organised clubs for volleyball, handball, basketball, nordic skiing, alpine skiing, athletics, judo, taekwon-do, orienteering, shooting, archery, swimming, gymnastics, tennis, cycling, horsesports, motorsports, and probably a few others I don't know about. Again, this is in a district of 30,000 people.
Every country that would like to train and learn how Norwegians are doing it, is welcome to make contact to Norwegian teams. The national ski association say they will help all nations, they say "nothing is a secret". (In professional level)
Well, mostly true. But some of the chemical mixtures in the ski lubrication is still a guarded secret I think.
You should try reacting to some of our athletic, like Terje Håkonsen(snowboard), Therese Johaug(cross country skiing), Marit Bjørgen(Cross Country skiier, recognised as the best of all time), Ole Einar Bjørndalen(Biathlon, recognised as the Best of all times), Petter Northug(Cross Country skiing), Aksel Lund Svindal(Alpine), Johannes Klæbo(Cross Country skiier), Kjetil Andre Aamodt(Alpine), or any of the American team, like Kikkan Randall(Cross Country), Lindsey Vonn(Alpine), or Shaun White (snowboard)
We have a saying in Norway, “give the kids alcohol before the sport takes them” 😆
Most part of Norway does not have snow year around. But hey are spesial in a way. I have lived norway for over 10 years, but I am not an Norwegian. I remember the first morning after I moved there, I looked out through the window at 4:30, early sunday morning. -20 degrees and a heavy snowstorm. And my neghbour, dressed in tights, come running past the house. I saw him comming back home (still running) a couple of hours later.
We have a saying.
it is typically Norwegian to be good😂
America send like 23 of their best athletes to compete for one medal for two weeks in hockey, in to weeks 4 of our cross country skiers can collect 10 + medals. The difference in population can be equalised by strategy and simple math.
If you really want to watch how dominant Norway could be in ski, you have a major example in this video: "Petter Northug's råeste rykk noensinne (Vancouver lagsprint)". This is the most mindboggling thing I've ever witnessed. I was shocked the first time watching this live, Petter Northug was an insane athlete and were twice as fast as any other skier ever in the history of skiing. We have a close one now in Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, but it just isn't the same.
I'm from Sweden and I have always loved winter sports and watch a lot of it on tv. Sweden and Norway have a big rivalry and it's always fun to see Sweden win over Norway a few times.
In Denmark, we joke that the norwegian are born with skies on. The Skandinavien countries are friendly teasing each other.
It's not a joke, it's a fact 🇧🇻
last winter until Easter me and my twin actually went skiing to school almost every day 😅 I think most people in Norway LOVE to go skiing and it was always motivating to get oranges and chocolate
Norway does have Snowboarding, though it's not as focused on as the other sports, but we do have medals from snowboarding and there was a famous snowboarder years ago, Terje Håkonsen, and is pretty influential in the sport from what I understand.
Don't know why, but I love watching your clips on the subject, Norway. I kinda know it already, but it makes me humble to bee a Norwegian, and lucky to have been born into a kind of, "golden ticket" location of the world. So thank you for giving me that. 🙏
On another note. I'm wondering, WHEN are you going to travle to Norway? As far as I can see, your kinda Norway biggest fan, and no worries, we treat out fans with respekt 😊
It’s like playing a video game that has ONLY ranked mode, and nothing else.
If Norway has Snowboarding? Yes. You should check out Terje Håkonsen. He is one of the most influential snowboarders of all time, and helped shape the sport into what it is today on multiple levels.
Parents and take their kids skiing from toddler age, they love and grow up loving skiing, they become parents and take their kids skiing, who again take their kids and you have it going.
We are proud of our country.
In my youth I was active with 3 different sports for a loong time. I often biked from handball practice to soccer practice and had a game every weekend on top of playing tennis in my "free time". All of this was being done just for the fun of it and I wasn't at all special compaired to my peers. At school many of us ran down to the soccer field every day in our lunch break to play until the bell rang. And the same soccer field was converted into a skating rink in the winter. Have to say there was only 2 kids not participating in sports and school activities of the 70 pupils in my cohort, the only overweight kid and one with severe asthma.
This was 25 years ago now, and things have changed a little bit, but norwegian kids are still, in general, fairly active.
actually the world champion in drifting is actually Norwegian too :P
The 8% population vs. 20% of medal for Trøndelag is just because of a couple of specific athletes. Marit Bjørgen has like 50 alone...
Snowboarding is big in Norway along side Alpine skeeing and one of the big legends of the snowboarding is Norwegian; Terje Haakonsen.
I am a norwegian, and I hate skiing! I also hate xc skiiers, because in my sport I use the forest to train, but in the winter the forest paths are full of xc skiiers and ski tracks, and I am forbidden to use to forest for my sport. When they manage to keep the ski tracks open from October to April some "winters" it is extremely frustrating. I remember, when I was young, I had a fantasy of kidnapping the best xc skiier in Norway and the ransom would be that xc skiing would be outlawed, except for in the mountains.
This is just the winter sports. We have world champions in Chess, Rally, Rallycross, rowing, running, riding, offshore, cheffing, orienteering races, beach volleyball, Taekwon-do, boxing, bow shooting, fencing, judo, roing, weight lifting, BMX, sycling, shooting, triatlon, sailing, hand ball men and women, football women, gymnastics, padling, wrestling (not the show type), swimming, poker, e-sports and probably lots of other things I just can't remember from the top of my head.
From a population matching a medium US city.
Yes, we like to brag about this on top of everything. Because we work hard to be good.
Absolutely! If Viktor Hovland were to win the 2023 FedEx Cup or achieve other significant milestones in golf, his accomplishments would definitely garner recognition. Updates and notable achievements in sports are regularly incorporated to ensure a comprehensive understanding of current athletes and their achievements. If Hovland secures such a remarkable victory, he would certainly be acknowledged among the standout athletes from Norway.
yes i really love you feature Norway in your channel and been looking forward every upload you have made. yes Norway is also good in snow boarding but not really like in skiing. were also good in other sports like handball, if US is good in basketball. You can check on that. I'm from Norway by the way.
more videos you can feature about Norway, specially how we deal with traffics compare in the US or America.
No shit?
@@doublebirdie No SHIT... 🙂🙂🙂 you can check yourself 😁😁
One of the reasons Trøndelag has lots of medal winners is the climate. While there is little snow along the coast in southern Norway (Where most people live) Trøndelag has lots of snow during winter.
Then you go to Finnmark and drown in it.
The terrain helps too.
We got some good summer olymipcs in Norway aswell. not as many but impressive. love the videos
The most hardcore Vikings came from the region around Trondheim. Maybe there's a connection. That's for the gene part.
The Norwegians "forgot" the most important secret about becoming good at anything. Tolerance for boredom.
Outside the cities in Norway there isn't much to do, thus the tolerance increase by the minute.
There's nothing more important than tolerance for boredom. Preferably it needs to come naturally and not as forced upon rules.
The reason is simple. To become the best at something you need a lot of repetitions.
Norway is also doing a lot of scientific studies to unveil what is the best way in the different sports.
we have indoors ski hills too
Norway have the best Snowboarders of all time
Norwegian kids knows very well the score and order in a competition even if it is not on record. The competition is still there. Even at ages below 10 year old like 8 or 9 years. So even if they don't officially record it. Competition is still there in our backbone from early age.
yes they are I am curantly going to a fishing class in shcool its in grong, Trøndelag
People snowboard here, but most of us use slalom ski
I'm sorry, "lack of mountains and snow"? The US is *24%* mountainous landscape. You have over 800 ski resorts!
As a Norwegian, in my experience almost every kid has had an experience with skiing, and it’s usually weird to find out if someone doesn’t know how to ski because it’s such a common part of childhood.
You can find some of them in the main cities - so it's not that rare as you think, but yes the nation as a whole winter sports are part of the culture.
In the tv show «landskampen» the best Norwegian and sweedish winter sports athletes, compete for fun. 😊
They have dinner and talk about their childhood, how they became interested, how they worked hard, how they were discovered, how family life or health hindered or helped them, how it was mentally and physically.
Very interesting and impressive!!
Something that keeps being brought up is how they lived in areas with a lot of hills. Small ones and big once.
They got a lot of exercise just by going over to the neighbour to play, or walking to school and back or going out to Get wood for the fireplace.
Often farming tasks, and forestwork and the like, made them strong and gave them endurance.
My thoughts: in Norway, when
Winter comes, it Can be impossible to walk in the snow that Can reach your thighs or higher.
Skies were the best solution. Fast and keeping you from falling through the upper layer of the snow.
And the thrill when racing down the hill.
The excersize of Walking up the hill to go again!
No Wonder they were good and did better than others and started training more seriously earlier.
Due to volunteering parents in most neighbourhoods, there Are sportsteams everywhere. So it would be available for most everyone, and most of your friends would be there, so why not you,
In Winter: skiing, ice skating, hockey, jumping.
In summer: Football, handball, swimming and syckling.
In the south-west of Norway there is hardly ever snow. Try to develop a winter athlete there.
Johaug?
@@homla8116 Dalsbygda is at an elevation of 641 m, they had plenty of snow at winter-time (and mountainous terrain to train in).
In Winter Olympics, Norway compete in all the different types, but in terms of what we have the most medals in it would be, Cross country skiing, then Speed skating, Biathlon (the one where they shoot), Alpine skiing, Nordic combined (Cross country + Jumping), Ski jumping, Freestyle skiing, Figure skating, Curling, and Snowboarding. Also, Norway had done badly for about 10 years before Calgary, but it was the worst placing in total that year, so they decided to change it up. But it isn't a perfect system, as Turin in 2006 was the worst placing in Norway's Winter Olympic History ;P
yeah, skiing is a big part of Norway. For some reason everyone loves it