“It is common practice in Norway to occasionally use asthma medicine in major ailments in the respiratory system... even where the diagnosis of asthma is not specific,”
They can thank the North Sea for giving them all that oil.
| Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norway | 13 | 12 | 10 | 35 |
| Germany | 13 | 7 | 5 | 25 |
| Canada | 10 | 8 | 9 | 27 |
| United States of America | 8 | 7 | 6 | 21 |
| Netherlands | 7 | 6 | 4 | 17 |
| Sweden | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
| France | 5 | 4 | 6 | 15 |
| Austria | 5 | 2 | 6 | 13 |
| South Korea | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 6 | 3 | 12 |
| Japan | 3 | 5 | 3 | 11 |
| Italy | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| Belarus | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| China | 1 | 6 | 2 | 9 |
| Olympic Athletes from Russia | 1 | 5 | 8 | 14 |
| Czech Republic | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Great Britain | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Poland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Hungary | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Australia | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Slovenia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Finland | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Spain | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| New Zealand | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Latvia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kazakhstan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Liechtenstein | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
And our tax rate is only...
So bragging at length about the Norwegian welfare state is “humble”?
Norway is one of the few countries outside of the Middle East that has a gigantic "Oil Dollars to Population Ratio" and can afford the best trainers, the best local facilities, the best electronic analysis / body-part-tracking equipment, unlimited travel to the best facilities worldwide, and much more.
See my recent post here about their oil wealth - http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3624953/posts?page=89#89
At least they're not bankrupting their populace to train the world's best athletes, as E Germany and the USSR did during the Cold War.
Yeah?
And you speak Russian or German without us.
Ante up...pussies....
... “We have free health care, we have free schools, you can have a PhD without paying anything,”
Like many many other countries. So those are NOT the reasons of the Norvegian medal haul.
The real reasons are lot of snow, lot of white people, lot of oil, lot of natural gas, all too politically incorrect to even mention.
Logic and facts don’t count when the lying media can push its socialistic narrative.
Dominant Norway proud but humble amid gold rush
sorry dingbats, “proud” and “humble” are diametrically opposed.
It must be nice to have a country with relatively few people sit on huge oil reserves. In such an instance “eventually the money runs out” weakness of socialism takes a lot longer to materialize.
I think it is great that Norway won a lot of medals.
But I won’t be lectured about their great lifestyle by a socialist turd like Norway’s chef de mission Tore Oevreboe.
They went belly up to the Nazis in WWI, and many people collaborated with the Nazis, fought with the Nazis, and they even coined a new phrase known throughout the world to describe a traitor...a Quisling...after a Norwegian who bent over backwards to work with the Nazis.
They are a nearly ethnically homogeneous country of five million people with a high standard of living, with nearly half of their exports related to oil production.
They aren’t any kind of model to follow.