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Originally Posted by Jensen
Norway has won more Winter Games medals than any other nation. Last week it became the first country to win 100 Olympic gold medals, and Tuesday it hit the 300-medal milestone (the U.S. is second on the all-time list with dozens fewer.)
What makes its performance hard to fathom, however, is that Norway has only 4.7 million people to choose from. It's as if the American team finished third in Vancouver after limiting the athlete pool to people living in metropolitan Detroit.
Wall Street Journal
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wasn't the olympic winter games only really hosted in the scandinavian countries for most of the life of the winter olympics? i was looking at the roster of the 50s olympics.. only swedish, finnish, and Norwegian..