Norway's per capita success in a country of just 5.6 million shows how much better their approach is.
Call us when the state of Minnesota has as many global top-10 runners as Norway lol.
Ever heard of Garry Bjorklund, Mark Nenow, Dick Beardsley, Bob Kempainen, Steve Holman, Hassan Mead and Ben Blankenship. I could go on.
LOL you can't even make your case without naming runners from the 70s.
We're talking about RIGHT NOW. As in this decade, grandpa.
Jakob, Warholm, Marcus Rooth (decathlon gold in Paris 2024) ... that's three top athletes as of the last Olympics. Not to mention Nordas, Moen, Grovdahl...
Let us know when Minnesota or South Carolina's population have this many greats at once.
Ever heard of Garry Bjorklund, Mark Nenow, Dick Beardsley, Bob Kempainen, Steve Holman, Hassan Mead and Ben Blankenship. I could go on.
LOL you can't even make your case without naming runners from the 70s.
We're talking about RIGHT NOW. As in this decade, grandpa.
Jakob, Warholm, Marcus Rooth (decathlon gold in Paris 2024) ... that's three top athletes as of the last Olympics. Not to mention Nordas, Moen, Grovdahl...
Let us know when Minnesota or South Carolina's population have this many greats at once.
Well we do know that Norway has a great system for producing athletes, and that includes doping of course.
LOL you can't even make your case without naming runners from the 70s.
We're talking about RIGHT NOW. As in this decade, grandpa.
Jakob, Warholm, Marcus Rooth (decathlon gold in Paris 2024) ... that's three top athletes as of the last Olympics. Not to mention Nordas, Moen, Grovdahl...
Let us know when Minnesota or South Carolina's population have this many greats at once.
You need to get with the times. Neither Jakob, Warholm, or Rooth medaled at the most recent global outdoor championship competition. Jakob got crushed by Hocker, Warholm got stomped by Benjamin, and Rooth was MIA while Garland won bronze.
In fact, no man from Norway won a medal in Tokyo. Pathetic.
Name a Norwegian track athlete that would make a US team not named Jakob Ingebritsen/Karston Warlholm.
Henriette Jæger (currently ranked 5 in the world, indoors world leader), Awet Kibrab ( NR 2.04.24 some months ago) and maybe Narve Nordås ( WC bronze, OG 7 th, 3.29.47 pb) and Håkon Moe Berg (teenager in progress; 3.30.28 solo last 500m last year)
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Add in the literal Olympic decathlon champion, and that is easily AT LEAST SEVEN Norwegian TnF athletes who would be ranked top-3 in the US.
Population 5.5 million.
A lot more Norwegians could make the US team than, say, Minnesotans, South Carolinians, or Alabamians.
Henriette Jæger (currently ranked 5 in the world, indoors world leader), Awet Kibrab ( NR 2.04.24 some months ago) and maybe Narve Nordås ( WC bronze, OG 7 th, 3.29.47 pb) and Håkon Moe Berg (teenager in progress; 3.30.28 solo last 500m last year)
Hahahahaha this DevonGlazerGuy is getting burned.🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣
Add in the literal Olympic decathlon champion, and that is easily AT LEAST SEVEN Norwegian TnF athletes who would be ranked top-3 in the US.
Population 5.5 million.
A lot more Norwegians could make the US team than, say, Minnesotans, South Carolinians, or Alabamians.
The “literal Olympic decathlon champion.” As opposed to what? The metaphorical one? Your English is a work in progress.
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Why do the Yanks hate Ingebrigtsen? Is it because he never ran a fast 2 mile race in the local meet v Hicksville college?
You guys need your system to be right don't you. Get 100s of kids, run them into the ground running everything too fast and get 1 athlete capable of making world final every year.
Ingebrigtsens, Bakken et al have found a better way to train but you need Cole to be better don't you. It's just wrong that an athlete doing things "wrong" can win. You don't mind losing to the Africans as they're all doped aren't they? That helps you sleep at night.
There have been entire decades where you were right about the American system, but this is not one of them. Nor was the last. Since 2011, you've had American medalists in the distances all over the place on the track and some even on the roads. Jenny Simpson, Matt Centrowitz, Galen Rupp (all three multiple medals), Leo Manzano, Nick Symmonds, Evan Jager, Emma Coburn, Courtney Frerichs, Donavan Brazier, Cole Hocker, Yared Nuguse, Grant Fisher, and the list goes on.
But so too have the UK, and it has 4 times less population. In fact, Scotland with its 5 million population compared to the USA's 342 million has done proportionately far better. Given the resources that the US pours into track compared to the UK or Scotland, the USA has done quite terribly. The USA has had medals, but very few golds. Or at least not proportionately more golds in relation to your much larger population.
And the US collegiate programme is just very, very strange. Its so odd to see adult males discuss young teenage girl's appearance in detail, but even stranger that you burn so many out before they get to become seniors. You must lose so many good athletes due to injury and burnout when they should be getting nurtured and developed as athletes. Jane Hedengren is a wonderful talent but no coach on this side of the pond would be encouraging her to race nearly every weekend indoors or all year round. Indoors is particularly a risk for causing injury.
And where is the US coaching for someone like Nuguse? Has he never been coached so as to correct his arm swing - his arms literally flap about in front of his body, instead of driving him forwards. He looks like someone who has taken up running in mid life without having any speed coaching and it really stands out as poor coaching in a field of elite athletes on the track.
There have been entire decades where you were right about the American system, but this is not one of them. Nor was the last. Since 2011, you've had American medalists in the distances all over the place on the track and some even on the roads. Jenny Simpson, Matt Centrowitz, Galen Rupp (all three multiple medals), Leo Manzano, Nick Symmonds, Evan Jager, Emma Coburn, Courtney Frerichs, Donavan Brazier, Cole Hocker, Yared Nuguse, Grant Fisher, and the list goes on.
Nice list, but the US has 340 million people.
Norway's per capita success in a country of just 5.6 million shows how much better their approach is.
Call us when the state of Minnesota has as many global top-10 runners as Norway lol.
They need to call us in Scotland too. We also have 5.6 million people, and have regularly supplied 2 or 3 1500m finalists and Olympic and world middle distance medallists.
If we were still the same country, as we were once a long time ago, we would be supplying half the global final fields from our combined 11 million people. In fact, if we just drew them from Bergen and Edinburgh, we would still be winning multiple medals on the international stage.
The US clearly has a lot of talent, but proportionately is doing quite poorly per head of population. If it wasn't for Cole Hocker, that medal cabinet would be looking rather empty.
They need to call us in Scotland too. We also have 5.6 million people, and have regularly supplied 2 or 3 1500m finalists and Olympic and world middle distance medallists.
If we were still the same country, as we were once a long time ago, we would be supplying half the global final fields from our combined 11 million people. In fact, if we just drew them from Bergen and Edinburgh, we would still be winning multiple medals on the international stage.
The US clearly has a lot of talent, but proportionately is doing quite poorly per head of population. If it wasn't for Cole Hocker, that medal cabinet would be looking rather empty.
Stop with the lame population excuses. India and China have a lot more people than the USA but they don't win more medals.
If you wanted more people in your little country, your ancestors should have had the wit and might to stay or grow bigger. Like ours in the US did.
They need to call us in Scotland too. We also have 5.6 million people, and have regularly supplied 2 or 3 1500m finalists and Olympic and world middle distance medallists.
If we were still the same country, as we were once a long time ago, we would be supplying half the global final fields from our combined 11 million people. In fact, if we just drew them from Bergen and Edinburgh, we would still be winning multiple medals on the international stage.
The US clearly has a lot of talent, but proportionately is doing quite poorly per head of population. If it wasn't for Cole Hocker, that medal cabinet would be looking rather empty.
Stop with the lame population excuses. India and China have a lot more people than the USA but they don't win more medals.
If you wanted more people in your little country, your ancestors should have had the wit and might to stay or grow bigger. Like ours in the US did.
What a bizarre post. We don't want more people. We certainly don't need a bigger population to do well in athletics, that's for sure! But given so many of you are descended from us Scots and Norwegians, what went wrong?
We also don't have a significant proportion of our population descended from slaves.
How is your low life expectancy and coming along? Got it over 80 years yet? I agree you have a lot in common with India.
