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Two of the biggest cities in Norway (Oslo and Trondheim) have really easy snow access during the winter. In Oslo there are in total 2600 km ski tracks available for everyone. And most kids learn cross country skiing at a really young age.

lol this is just not true. Norwegians find it embarrassing that we dominate as much as we do.

Not good for the sport that an athlete not doing anything since the first race in Kuusamo is this far ahead of the rest.

As a Norwegian I have genuinely not seen this at all. Do you have a link? Iversen has since last season trained with Klæbo and followed his relatively extreme regime. For the first time in his career he is being a serious athlete when it comes to important stuff like diet, sleep etc.

Nordhagen did struggle with mononucleosis earlier in the season, might have set back his development somewhat. His best performances have been quite good this year, but has really struggled with consistency.

Yes. The excuses are familiar…. “Everyone else is doing it”. In a poll on the biggest newspaper in Norway they currently have 3 % of those who have answered on their side. Skijumping in Norway is dead after this.

And ski jumping in Norway has struggled enormously the last couple of years. They struggle with the TV numbers and are running huge deficits. There has also been some scandals with how they treated their former coach. All in all the athletes seems less likeable. This could be the finishing...

Not sure a too stiff seam would help in XC skiing.

Not sure those can be compared. The ski jumping one is a huge scandal if true, and one of the biggest scandals in Norwegian sports history. Blatant cheating and can be compared with doping.