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2018 Winter Olympics (Pyeongchang)
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And in the end, russia wins of course. So close 
Bjoergen just goes and goes. This will be a very dominant victory.
And will send Norway to the top of the table.
1. Norway 14-14-11
2. Germany 14-10-7
3. Canada 11-8-10
Beautiful. Well deserved. A shame for Germany that they ran out of bob and luge events to win.
2. Germany 14-10-7
3. Canada 11-8-10
Beautiful. Well deserved. A shame for Germany that they ran out of bob and luge events to win.
Luckily for Norway there was one more cross country skiing medal to be had
Next time, 12,000 asthma medications!
I too have asthma, do you think I should start in the next winter olympics?
Not sure about procedure for people that actually do have it!
Luckily for Norway there was one more cross country skiing medal to be had
I'm not celebrating yet. Probably only a matter of time before several Russian hockey players test positive and you move back to the top of the medal table.
Great that they are giving them medals at the closing. Worthy gold for that occasion.
One can dream... ^^
But let's not kid ourselves. Norway has won a metric shitton more noble metal than us, while being half as populated as Bavaria alone - no other nation comes close to that performance.
So delighted for Bjørgen, in what is most likely her last olympic games.
Think she's won the most olympic medals ever now, with 15
Think she's won the most olympic medals ever now, with 15
Late reply - but great post. However, I'm not sure if I really want us to be ranked first in the medal table for years to come. I know your post haven't even touched upon the idea, and I'm taking it in a slightly different direction, but I'd hate to see the winter games become a competition between Norway, Germany, Russia and USA, with other nations picking up the occasional medal compared to our 40-50 or so. I'm always more drawn to the occasion, the experience, the emotion of individual events. Picking up a medal and moving on is not really cherishing the moment. I would probably struggle to name even 50% of our olympic medals since the turn of the century, but I could definitely name the great occasions I've witnessed when my body has been shaking with excitement (many of them outside the olympics) - Ingebrigtsen's gold in Thunder Bay '95, Øyvind Skaanes' amazing first leg in the cross-country relay in Val di Fiemme '91, Bjørndalen's perfect 20 in the 2003 mass start in Khanty-Mansijsk, Northug's 50 km win in Falun '15, the women's relay win in the biathlon world championships in Oslo '16, and so on.
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I've thought about this a lot, and I think that asthma is a spectrum, and basically every single person on the planet is on that spectrum. The issue is, some people walk into a dusty room, or just go for a walk and their airways close up. Some people need to sprint up the side of a mountain on a pair of skis or on a bike, or run a marathon at almost a sprint before it hits them.
My experience is that when I was 18-22 the peak of my athletic career, I never experienced athletic induced asthma. My sister who was a Div 1 college track athlete had it most of her teenage life and beyond. Then I hit 30, and as I mountain bike a lot as my sport of choice now, I suddenly started having exercise induced asthma. It's a very peculiar feeling, for me its mostly my hearing that gets weird that lets me know its happening cause at that point i'm so knackered it makes no difference for me.
These world class athletes, there is no way they are normal asthmatics. No possible way. They are giving themselves exercised induced asthma when they are trucking 220 BPM type heart rates.