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发帖数: 2810 | 1 Why is Norway so good at the Winter Games?
Analysis by Harry Enten, CNN
Updated 9:52 AM EST, Fri February 18, 2022
(CNN)There's a familiar country atop the medal count in the Winter Olympics:
Norway. The country has even set a new mark for most gold medals -- after
Johannes Thingnes won his fourth of Beijing 2022 in the men's biathlon
15km mass start -- in a single Winter Games with 15.
This might surprise some given that Norway has only a little more than five
million residents -- not even in the top 100 most populated countries.
So what's the secret to Norway's historical and current success? Two big
factors really.
The first is, perhaps obviously, the weather. It's the Winter Olympics after
all. Norway ranks in the bottom five in World Bank data for average
temperature during the year at about 36 degrees Fahrenheit (two degrees
Celsius).
When you take a look at a medal count and temperature chart (as in this
Economist article), you'll see a clear correlation between the two.
But it's more than temperature -- it is also money.
Team Norway rejoices after winning the biathlon mixed relay 4x6km.
Team Norway rejoices after winning the biathlon mixed relay 4x6km.
Think about how hard it is to train for the Olympics. Gear is often
expensive. Children often need fortunate enough parents to get them to
events. There also needs to be infrastructure in place to train for the
Olympics.
Norway is a fairly wealthy country: its GDP is in the top 35 worldwide and
the GDP per capita is in the top 10.
GDP though doesn't capture all types of wealth. That's what the United
Nations Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index is for; it takes into
account other variables such as education, life expectancy and inequality.
Vetle Sjstad Christiansen, who won gold in the men's 4x7.5km biathlon
relay and bronze in 15km mass start, outlined some of the -- expensive --
technology and techniques he and his teammates used to cope with the testing
conditions in China.
"For the biathlon team, it's been an unbelievable journey this Olympics
in
Beijing. We were a little bit afraid that maybe here with the wind and the
cold it would be some surprises and a little bit of coincidences. So the
last two, three years we tried to eliminate as much of these coincidences as
we possibly could like training a lot in the altitude, training a lot in
the wind.
"When we didn't have real wind, we trained with this wind machine and
put it
behind us to have some wind from the left because we knew here from the
data that it would be a lot of wind from the left. It's very good to see
that we get value for the work we have done the last two and a half years. | i*****e
发帖数: 2810 | 2 原文讲的是挪威为啥成功，但反面也能说明美帝奥运为啥走下坡路。
美帝没有别的路，要想MAGA，只有放下姓资还是姓社的争论，致力于减少贫富差距，让
底层有机会享受健康食品和各种体育资源，同时解放中产阶级，让中产阶级及其后代有
时间享受生活并参与各种体育项目和活动。
要做到这些，最终只有走向北欧的民主社会主义。
川普想效法希特勒，走国家社会主义和法西斯道路，在美帝这种种族混居的大环境，没
戏的，只能制造社会分裂。 |
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