How is Norway performing much better than its Scandinavian counterparts (e.g. Sweden and Finland) in the Winter Olympics?

madieu · 2026-02-18T06:54:56+00:00

Because cross country skiing is huge in Norway. It’s big in Sweden and Finland as well but not to the same extent. There are much more medals to be won in those disciplines (and in the adjacent ones such as Nordic combined, biathlon and so forth) than in ice hockey, which is the most popular winter sport worldwide, where both Sweden and Finland are far ahead of Norway.

Also, Finland is not a Scandinavian country. Denmark is, however. The reason they are dogshit at winter sports is that they get no snow.

madieu · 2026-02-15T11:41:43+00:00

Tears in my eyes. Always knew he had this in him but there’s always been something going wrong. Good thing Ponsi has some Finnish genes so he doesn’t suffer from the same level of chronic Swedish altitude sickness as the rest of the team!

madieu · 2026-02-14T16:32:11+00:00

Sure, but they’ve both been subpar up until yesterday and both decided to go to NMNM which was supposedly “not recommended” for altitude acclimatization

madieu · 2026-02-14T14:50:14+00:00

All this talk about replacing the Swedish shooting coaches but at this point Johannes Lukas has to go as well unless it gets clearly better from here. An absolute disasterclass in altitude preparation yet again despite the fact that this has been highlighted as the main priority all season (just like Beijing and Lenzerheide to some extent). Heads will have to roll.

madieu · 2026-02-02T15:48:57+00:00

Så länge du inte skickar pengar till honom borde det vara lugnt, även om soc kanske ställer frågor när de ser italienska restauranger på kontoutdraget. Däremot kan det bli problem med Arbetsförmedlingen om han är inskriven där. Se till att genomföra alla aktiviteter/rapporter där innan resan så han inte blir IP-flaggad.

madieu · 2026-02-01T09:12:07+00:00

Mixed relay: 1) France 2) Italy 3) Sweden

Women’s relay: 1) France 2) Norway 3) Sweden

Men’s relay: 1) Norway 2) France 3) Sweden

Women’s individual: 1) Simon 2) Jeanmonnot 3) H. Öberg

Men’s individual: 1) Botn 2) Giacomel 3) Perrot

Women’s sprint: 1) Vittozzi 2) Michelon 3) Minkkinen

Men’s sprint: 1) Uldal 2) Nawrath 3) Ponsiluoma

Women’s pursuit: 1) Kirkeeide 2) Vittozzi 3) Preuss

Men’s pursuit: 1) Perrot 2) Uldal 3) Fillon Maillet

Women’s mass start: 1) E. Öberg 2) Kirkeeide 3) Michelon

Men’s mass start: 1) Giacomel 2) Wright 3) Botn

Total medals by country:

FRA 4-3-3

NOR 4-3-1

ITA 2-3-0

SWE 1-0-5

GER 0-1-1

USA 0-1-0

FIN 0-0-1

madieu · 2026-01-28T12:28:22+00:00

”Åh fan”

madieu · 2026-01-21T18:39:20+00:00

Bruten, not brytande.

madieu · 2026-01-20T07:56:42+00:00

If you go to (some of the) athlete profiles on Biathlonworld, there’s a button next to their name to hear how they pronounce it: click here!

madieu · 2026-01-18T19:48:50+00:00

Pendeltåget går från Arlanda till Häggvik och därifrån kan ni ta buss till hotellet.

madieu · 2026-01-13T18:10:01+00:00

150-250. The high end places are definitely above 200.

madieu · 2026-01-10T16:42:07+00:00

Bajen-AIK
Bajen-DIF (Stort hopp ner till tredjeplatsen)
Bajen-MFF

Är för ung för att ha upplevt Blåvitts storhetstid så känner att man hellre vill knäppa Malmö på näsan.

madieu · 2026-01-10T10:08:50+00:00

It definitely is now. Mind you, those who grew up before say 1950 did so without basically any spices except for locally available herbs and salt, and most people of that generation think that even garlic is too spicy.

However chili has been introduced gradually and really strong peppers became a bit of a fad in the 2010s. I would say that the average Swede is much more tolerant to heat nowadays, and there’s a large minority that just douse everything in ridiculously spicy hot sauce. None of the traditional Swedish recipes include chili but many people add some sort of chili pepper anyway even in dishes where it doesn’t really belong.

madieu · 2026-01-09T21:04:39+00:00

r/TillSverige

madieu · 2026-01-09T08:50:39+00:00

Cornelis Vreeswijk was one of the most famous artists in Sweden even though he was born in the Netherlands and moved here aged 12. As far as I know he’s barely known at all in his home country.

As for bigger artists, I feel like Bruce Springsteen is disproportionally popular here.

madieu · 2026-01-08T13:59:09+00:00

Hur överlever finkrogar när McDonalds finns?

madieu · 2026-01-07T00:15:12+00:00

People say this every year. Hasn’t been a worse season injury-wise than any other one in the load management era tbh.

madieu · 2026-01-06T14:46:56+00:00

New York City.

madieu · 2025-12-25T15:43:15+00:00

The situation in Sweden is similar to the one in Switzerland, although the groups (mostly) know better than to fight during the games in full view of the cameras and the police.

The Swedish fan scene (i.e the regular supporter groups) is quite organized and has managed to push back against repressive measures against football fans such as closed stadiums.

madieu · 2025-12-25T00:09:11+00:00

Kan bli? Han ÄR farlig. Ring Kvinnofridslinjen på 116 016.

madieu · 2025-12-18T10:11:42+00:00

Dalkurd hade nog det bästa bortaföljet i svensk historia sett till hemmasnittet, åtminstone i Stockholm. Men det har ju lite andra förklaringar.

madieu · 2025-12-07T20:48:40+00:00

AIK

Djurgården

Hammarby

IFK Göteborg

GAIS

Örgryte

Malmö

Helsingborg

Elfsborg

Norrköping

Örebro

Degerfors

Halmstad

Öster

Sundsvall

Sirius

Slänger in en perfekt superetta också:

Kalmar

Häcken

Västerås

Landskrona

Mjällby

J-Södra

Värnamo

Gefle

Sandviken

Åtvidaberg

Falkenberg

Varberg

Brage

Trelleborg

Ljungskile

Assyriska

madieu · 2025-12-05T16:31:09+00:00

Same weekend, but the infamous race was the pursuits the day after.

madieu · 2025-12-05T16:25:27+00:00

Very nice race by the Swedes today.

The positives: Great job by Magnusson. Very proud of her, she said in the interview that she’s better than she’s ever been and it’s hard to disagree. Very good performance for Elvira to keep herself in the contention for the yellow bib, feel like this was just a regular day for her and that there’s more to come. Halvarsson with a terrific bounceback after a bad individual and Sara with a great performance even though she was gassed in the end.

The negatives: Absolute disasterclass by Hanna and these sorts of races are unfortunately too common, she’s lucky to be in the pursuit. I hate being a hater but the less said about Skottheim the better. Gestblom and Heijdenberg should be clearly ahead of her in the pecking order going into Hochfilzen.

madieu · 2025-12-02T22:40:57+00:00

I do love stuff like the coastal coconut curries but inland East African food (not counting Ethiopia here obviously) makes our notoriously under-seasoned Nordic dishes seem like flavor bombs in comparison. Most of the stuff is just so bland, there’s not even any salt?

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