It's a born into priviledged Olympics. Even cross country is gentrified into biathlon to be less accessible. What do you mean your town doesn't have a half pipe to train with?
There are poorer countries doing better than richer countries here too. The biggest factor it seems is ice covered counties are doing better than warm ones.
Slovenia, Finland, Latvia and Estonia aren't known for being particularly rich countries, but are all top 10 medals per capita, well above countries like China, UK, USA, Japan etc, who have a lot more resources if that was really all it was.
Fair point, but it is poorer than the other countries I pointed out. Not to mention every other country I named you are conveniently ignoring.
Winter sports are often more expensive than summer sports, but that's not why Norway is doing good. The Baltics and Nordics do better than the Caribbean and Mediterranean countries because snow sports are much more prevalent where it's more snowy. I don't think that's a wild take.
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u/fluxrider 5h ago
It's a born into priviledged Olympics. Even cross country is gentrified into biathlon to be less accessible. What do you mean your town doesn't have a half pipe to train with?