A Norwegian Might Win US Open TENNIS? These guys are Clean?

He won't escape from alcaraz though

You don't know what you are talking about

Vikings[a] is the modern name given to seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden),[3][4][5][6] who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and settled throughout parts of Europe.[7][8][9] They also voyaged as far as the Mediterranean, North Africa, Volga Bulgaria, the Middle East, and North America. In some of the countries they raided and settled in, this period is popularly known as the Viking Age, and the term "Viking" also commonly includes the inhabitants of the Scandinavian homelands as a collective whole. The Vikings had a profound impact on the early medieval history of Scandinavia, the British Isles, France, Estonia, and Kievan Rus'.[10]

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Vikings is the modern name given to seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and settled throughout parts...

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It is a fact that Norwegians are on average among the tallest in the world. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-height-by-country

Erling Haaland's father, Alfie, also played for Manchester City, as well as Leeds and Nottingham Forest.

Nadal and Djokovic showed you can't get to the top of tennis now without it. The modern game requires speed with unlimited stamina. Ruud has trained extensively in Spain. Why? Because they wrote the formula.

how would doping increase performance in a skill sport? I get running and endurance activities, but what does doping have to offer for a tennis player?

You haven't watched modern professional tennis. It requires athleticism of the highest level now. Points played can be over 50 strokes and matches can last for several hours. Speed and stamina are crucial. If you had ever played the game at any level you would know what it can take out of you.

Welcome to the power of an oil driven socialist country. Where every person has equal oppourtinity to pursue tennis, fotball, thriatlon or track. Where 'all' kids practice sport growing up, and where enjoying the outdoors is expected and free for all.

This made me laugh out loud. Let me try:

Ruud has trained extensively in Spain. Why? There is something called winter. Believe it or not, its not that great to play tennis when its -15 degrees and snow.

Knife to a gun fight. I never said that non-academic pop culture, unfamiliar with primary source material, doesn't corrupt the term. One can appreciate that mistake whilst still correcting it.

(A) neither Scandinavian nor foreign sources applied the term viking in an ethnic sense. That term was rarely used in contemporary sources, and when it was, it denoted seaborn raiders or pirates, not nations or ethnic groups. Scandinavian sources (which are mostly a century or two later) apply it to anyone, including Gaelic, Moorish-Muslim and Slavic people who raided by sea. Example, the most important narrative source on Norwegian history prior to the mid 13th c., the Icelandic chieftain Snorri Sturlusson's Heimskringla (c.1230), tells us that the Norwegian king Sigurd the Crusader encountered Muslim 'vikings' in Iberia c 1100. "Þá er Sigurðr konungr sigldi fyrir Spán, barst þat at, at víkingar nökkurir, þeir er fóru at herfangi, kómu í móti honum með galeiða her, en Sigurðr konungr lagði til orrostu við þá; ok hófu svá hina fyrstu orrostu við heiðna menn". The term was also applied to Scandinavian raiders who hurt Scandinavians. Example. The famed king who first ruled over a "unified" Norway, Harald Fairhair, is said to have sought to defend his kingdom from vikings. "margir ríkismenn af Noregi flýðu útlaga fyrir Haraldi konungi ok fóru í vestrvíking, váru í Orkneyjum ok Suðreyjum á vetrum, en á sumrum herjuðu þeir í Noreg ok gerðu þar mikinn landsskaða. Margir váru þeir ok ríkismenn, er géngu til handa Haraldi konungi ok gerðust hans menn ok bygðu lönd með honum." Adam og Bremen, who visited and admired the Danish king Sven Estridsen in the 11th c., explains that Scandinavians, sp. Danes, call pirates 'Wichingos', and although kings occasionally allow them to raid in exchange for tribute, they often attacked Scandinaviana. "Ipsi enim pyratae, quos illi Wichingos appellant, nostri Ascomannos regi Danico tributum solvunt, ut liceat eis praedam exercere a barbaris, qui circa hoc mare plurimi habundant. Unde etiam contingit, ut licentia, quam in hostes acceperunt, saepe abutantur in suos; adeo fide nulla utrique ad invicem sunt, et sine misericordia quisque alterum, mox ut ceperit, in ius famulicii vel socio vendit vel barbaro".

(B) Raiding and trading are different from conquest and domination. The only established , noteworthy polities that Scandinavians controlled are several petty kingdoms of Ireland and central and eastern parts of the disjointed Anglo-Saxon realm(s), an area of settlement and tribute collection known as Danelag. Rollo, perhaps from Sunnmøre, acquired the mouth of Seine, quickly abandoning Scandinvian culture for Franconian. The Swedish Rurik dynasty was established along the Volga, again, quickly adapting to the majority Slavonic population. Norwegian peasant and petty chieftains settled in the North Atlantic, most of which was essentially uninhabited. The most impressive Scandinavian "empire" in the 9th. - 11th. c. was the Danish king Canute's realm ca. 1028, which included England and Norway. All this is piddly compared to, for instance, the Arabic-Muslim conquests of the 7th and 8th c. (From central Asia to the Pyrenees) or the Mongolian empire of the 12th to 16th c. (tribute extraction from Poland to China).

(C) Denmark is the historical heart of the Nordic world. It was the staging point for the most forceful and impactful raids and conquests in the so-called Viking Age, and with brief and few exceptions, utterly dominated its neighbours in Scandinavia. Its population was tall, and is today taller than Norway's....So why aren't they dominating international sports?

Dnepr, not Volga. To clarify, I'm not supporting insinuations of foul play. I'm just highlighting the absurdity of biological determinism, esp. when based on ignorant history. The fact that some tall searaiders came from Norway (and a slew of other places) has nothing to do with sports in 2022.

Except the viking history does have everything to do with it - it's genetic and cultural.

Same with Japan and their samurai culture - that's why they always perform at a high level in all sports despite being biologically much smaller than average.

The viking spirit absolutely drives Warholm, it's engrained in his culture and his DNA. He even wears a viking helment and lets out a battle cry.

This right there, in addition to the Government investments in sports is really what is creating these results. Expect more the next decades as well ...

Norwegian nectar for the win!

So they don't have indoor courts in Scandinavia? They were good enough for Borg (6 French Opens) and Edberg and a host of other players. But Spain is known as a doping country and it's own Sports Minister has said as much.

you are talking about the country which has highest quality of life. Also a country that is incredibly rich , from oil and fish industries. Support for athletes there is really good. People are living there with unlocked houses and cars, no one is stealing anything.. Nature is beautiful.

*its own

No. The US Open is an absolute joke. Djokovic would have walked to the title and he is the true number 1. Casper Rudd should be no where bear the final! Standards have dropped so much.

Thanks for correcting predictive text. That took an expert eye.