From The Wall Street Journal:

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.

I’ve always been a proud Norwegian, but it’s always nice to be recognized. Just stay out of the comments, people always feel the need to rain on others’ parades.

PS: Another gold medal collected today, and our curling team qualified for the final where they’ll face Canada. Let’s hope for a repeat of the 2002 final!