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Norway, a country with the population about 1.5% of the U.S., is kicking our (and everyone else's) ass in the Olympics. Not only are they routinely ranked as the top country in the world to live in (along with some other neighboring countries with similar cultures), but they also have a different approach to youth sports than what most on this board like.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...g-2018-winter-olympics-medal-count/350369002/
 
Y.A.G Si Ye Nots said:
Norway, a country with the population about 1.5% of the U.S., is kicking our (and everyone else's) ass in the Olympics. Not only are they routinely ranked as the top country in the world to live in (along with some other neighboring countries with similar cultures), but they also have a different approach to youth sports than what most on this board like.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...g-2018-winter-olympics-medal-count/350369002/
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Imagine that. Norway is good at the winter Olympics. Would have never guessed it.
 
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Not a bad concept but I think it's worse that we reward "failure". If we are going to keep score then there has to be winners and losers. Kids naturally compete just look at the playground and they are playing games yelling I won or I beat you. Participation trophies are fine for the basketball league of 4 year olds where they don't keep score but anything above that rewards mediocrity in my opinion. Everyone can get a trophy but first place should be bigger have more ribbons etc
 
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i'm a firm believer that participation trophies is part of what's wrong with society today. not everybody is a winner and kids don't deserve an award for simply participating in an event. kids need to learn how to deal with failure and awarding them for failing isn't any way to teach them.

my nephew finished 2nd at the state wrestling tournament over the weekend, got a trophy that was damn near as tall as he is (he's like 7 or 8). he was pissed he didn't win the whole damn thing. saw a picture of him with his 2nd place trophy and the expression on his face was basically saying, "get this POS away from me." beat the number 1 seed in the match prior to get to the final then lost on points in the final. yeah, he wasn't much into the 2nd place.
 
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ohio herd said:
yeh saw they had 4 bronze medals at RIO- they are really teaching us a lesson!
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And per capita, that is better in medal count than the U.S. did in Rio.


i am herdman said:
Imagine that. Norway is good at the winter Olympics. Would have never guessed it.
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It's a country with 5 million people. We have exponentially more people in similar climates in the U.S. yet are still getting stomped.

Ranked as the best place to live; kicking our ass in the Olympics with 1/60th the population; had more medals per capita than us in Rio; have the best area at Epcot; have Elsa, the smokeshow movie character.

Norway > U.S.

Oh, and there is also this to get all of you toughguy, Green Berets on the board riled up:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...2/17/norway-policy-athlete-weights/349028002/
 
Y.A.G Si Ye Nots said:
Norway, a country with the population about 1.5% of the U.S., is kicking our (and everyone else's) ass in the Olympics. Not only are they routinely ranked as the top country in the world to live in (along with some other neighboring countries with similar cultures), but they also have a different approach to youth sports than what most on this board like.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...g-2018-winter-olympics-medal-count/350369002/
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Yeah, but we dominate snowboarding, probably because we have great weed.

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Y.A.G Si Ye Nots said:
And per capita, that is better in medal count than the U.S. did in Rio.




It's a country with 5 million people. We have exponentially more people in similar climates in the U.S. yet are still getting stomped.

Ranked as the best place to live; kicking our ass in the Olympics with 1/60th the population; had more medals per capita than us in Rio; have the best area at Epcot; have Elsa, the smokeshow movie character.

Norway > U.S.

Oh, and there is also this to get all of you toughguy, Green Berets on the board riled up:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...2/17/norway-policy-athlete-weights/349028002/
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They have a great area in Epcot I will say. But, they sucked at repelling the Germans.
 
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WV-FAN said:
damn, do i spy a c-section scar on the gold medal sloot? birthed a kid and still looks solid enough to bounce a quarter off her ass and win the gold.

hell yeah!
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Hell, you could probably bounce the gold medal.
 
Most of our best athletes play a single sport for which there is no corresponding Olympic event.

The ones that don't play that play a sport that there are three medals to be won every four years.

It's not even a remotely fair comparison.

However, since you want to talk population density, I'll put any metro areas best basketball or football team up against Norway's and can easily predict the results.
 
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trailherd said:
Most of our best athletes play a single sport for which there is no corresponding Olympic event.
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Our best athletes play basketball and track & field. Both Olympic events.

The only major sport played in the U.S. that is not in the Olympics is American football.

trailherd said:
However, since you want to talk population density, I'll put any metro areas best basketball or football team up against Norway's and can easily predict the results.
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I'm not sure what your point is. American football is played, mainly, in one country.

The fact is that Norway, a country 1/60th the size of the U.S., is kicking our ass (and everyone else's). In the Summer games, they crushed us in the medal count per capita.

Norway uses a different philosophy for sports (and just about everything else) that the majority of deplorables support on this board. It is why Norway kicks our ass in the many world rankings of best places to live and trickles all the way down to kicking our ass in the Olympics.
 
The point is pretty simple, the best athletes in the US play 2 sports upon which there is a maximum of 2 medals they can be awarded.

Comparing per capital medal count is absurd unless you control for that.

Norway can earn up to 39 medals in Alpine skiing, the US can earn up to two for basketball.
 
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Y.A.G Si Ye Nots said:
Our best athletes play basketball and track & field. Both Olympic events.

The only major sport played in the U.S. that is not in the Olympics is American football.



I'm not sure what your point is. American football is played, mainly, in one country.

The fact is that Norway, a country 1/60th the size of the U.S., is kicking our ass (and everyone else's). In the Summer games, they crushed us in the medal count per capita.

Norway uses a different philosophy for sports (and just about everything else) that the majority of deplorables support on this board. It is why Norway kicks our ass in the many world rankings of best places to live and trickles all the way down to kicking our ass in the Olympics.
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be a damn shame if all the fvcking libs didn't up and move to someplace they perceive as much better than the United States. be a short matter of time before they fvcked that place up, too.

i'm still waiting for all the cocksuckers that was leaving when trump was elected to get the fvck out. wish they'd have left and taken each and every beta cuck liberal crybaby asshole with them.
 
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WV-FAN said:
be a damn shame if all the fvcking libs didn't up and move to someplace they perceive as much better than the United States. be a short matter of time before they fvcked that place up, too.

i'm still waiting for all the cocksuckers that was leaving when trump was elected to get the fvck out. wish they'd have left and taken each and every beta cuck liberal crybaby asshole with them.
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What's funny is people love the Scandinavian countries and spout the benefits of diversity at every turn yet those countries are vast majority white nations. Norway is close to 90% white.
 
Sounds like Rifle should move there. He could even teach them about their white privilege.
 
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trailherd said:
The point is pretty simple, the best athletes in the US play 2 sports upon which there is a maximum of 2 medals they can be awarded.

Comparing per capital medal count is absurd unless you control for that.

Norway can earn up to 39 medals in Alpine skiing, the US can earn up to two for basketball.
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In that case, your point has absolutely nothing to fvcking do with the topic.

Norway is kicking our ass in the Olympics while having implemented a youth sports philosophy that the Green Berets on this board often vehemently rail against.

There has been no mention of who has the more athletic citizens. Nobody is claiming that Jan Bjorn Johansen is more athletic than Malik Blackman.

Now, your claim about per capita is illogical. Why? Well, the per capita medal count topic only applied to the summer games. No per capita is needed in the winter games, as they - a country with 1/60th of our population - are kicking our ass straight up.

For the per capita argument, you claimed that the U.S. can only win two medals for basketball while Norway can win a lot more for Alpine Skiing. Those events are not in the same games. Those are summer versus winter. There is no per capita needed in the winter games. Now, if you had selected a summer games event which had a widely lopsided medal count, then you'd have a point we could discuss. But you didn't, and as a result, your argument makes no sense.

Norway is kicking our ass straight up in the winter games. Our best athletes have just as much of a chance to win the same medals as their best athletes in these games.

Norway, per capita, did better than us in the summer games.
 
Yeah, my college fraternity brother was the 2man and 4 man bobsled driver in 4 Olympics then became the coach. He was from Florida and never saw snow until he came north for college on a football scholarship. He was in the first wave where the U.S. team decided to recruit the best athletes to try and get better. He and Hershel Walker were the first two man crew formed. The testing was all just on speed, strength, explosiveness. They sent out forms to every college football team in America. If a player was interested the coaching staff tested them and sent in the results.

Point being, we don't grow up bobsledding, luging, etc. we took a guy who had never seen snow while their drivers have been doing it since they were big enough to walk.
 
Y.A.G Si Ye Nots said:
Ranked as the best place to live; kicking our ass in the Olympics with 1/60th the population; had more medals per capita than us in Rio; have the best area at Epcot; have Elsa, the smokeshow movie character.

Norway > U.S.
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Sound great. You should move there.
 
Clearly he is a racist since he thinks a 97% white country is better than the US. not to mention predominately Christian. Rifle getting back to his WASP roots
 
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WV-FAN said:
be a damn shame if all the fvcking libs didn't up and move to someplace they perceive as much better than the United States. be a short matter of time before they fvcked that place up, too.

i'm still waiting for all the cocksuckers that was leaving when trump was elected to get the fvck out. wish they'd have left and taken each and every beta cuck liberal crybaby asshole with them.
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Hell yeah! Merikuh!

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WVFAN
 
19MU88 said:
predominately
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This is awesome. Leave this up to a deplorable. This spelling and root word makes absolutely no sense. The correct word is "predominantly." But since so many morons use the incorrect spelling/word, this incorrect version is now acceptable.

This is a perfect analogy of deplorables in real life.
 
Y.A.G Si Ye Nots said:
This is awesome. Leave this up to a deplorable. This spelling and root word makes absolutely no sense. The correct word is "predominantly." But since so many morons use the incorrect spelling/word, this incorrect version is now acceptable.

This is a perfect analogy of deplorables in real life.
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So, you're b*tching about someone spelling a word incorrectly by using a spelling that is no longer considered incorrect? Makes sense.
 
ThunderCat98 said:
So, you're b*tching about someone spelling a word incorrectly by using a spelling that is no longer considered incorrect? Makes sense.
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LOL! It was spelled incorrectly.

A predominant number of people on this board didn't realize it was spelled incorrectly.

I love to "predominate" you, mentally, on this board.
 
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So, you're b*tching about someone spelling a word incorrectly by using a spelling that is no longer considered incorrect? Makes sense.
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Will you please find a first-grader to read to you, since clearly you cannot?

Again, for the moron: he used a version of a word which is now deemed acceptable only because it was spelled and used incorrectly for so long by so many people, that finally it became acceptable to use it.

It is just like the deplorables with all of their "fake news" bullshit and other incorrect things. If enough of them keep saying it, it actually gives it some legitimacy (see: YouTube video about the alleged fake child actor reporting on the school shooting).
 
Y.A.G Si Ye Nots said:
Will you please find a first-grader to read to you, since clearly you cannot?

Again, for the moron: he used a version of a word which is now deemed acceptable only because it was spelled and used incorrectly for so long by so many people, that finally it became acceptable to use it.
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You could have just said "yes."
 
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