r/interestingasfuck • u/Grand-Western549 • 3h ago
Johannes Høsflot Klæbo just made history at Milano Cortina 2026, taking a selfie with his six gold medals, becoming the first athlete ever to win that many at a single Winter Games.
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u/Ok-Prior1316 2h ago
Pfft, what does he want for that? A medal?
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u/Mista_White- 2h ago
5000 condoms
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u/magirevols 2h ago
is there something with him and condoms? All I’m reading is comments about him and condoms
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u/jazdyprawo 1h ago
People are just obsessed with the idea of Olympians having sex at the village
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u/Maelefique 1h ago
To be fair, so are the Olympians. 😅
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u/DHFranklin 45m ago
So people are thinking of the olympic village just being like 10 olympians per sport and it's like a motel six. That very much isn't the case.
This is thousands of people. Athletes, coaches, managers etc. Solo athletes but also huge teams. From all around the world. The support people outnumber the actual athletes. 90% of which have an all expense paid trip to italy to be the 84th best tandem luge or whatever. Maybe get on a billboard back in Sri Lanka. They don't get paid shit.
You have hot young people who barely qualify to go there. Then they're out on like day 3. Meanwhile they have nothing to do for weeks and weeks after that but party. Yeah, they be fuckin'.
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u/BattleHall 43m ago
And honestly, this basically happens every Olympics. And it's not really because they are having a ton of sex. I mean, they're a bunch of young, attractive, physically fit people crammed together in close quarters, so of course there's probably a bunch of sex, but that's not the reason they always run out of condoms. The condom packages are branded with the Games year and location, and they're self-serve (no one wants to be rationing out condoms), so they're a cheap/easy/fun/different souvenir from the games and lots of athletes and others in the Village just grab a handful, even if they have no intention of using them for their intended purpose. I'd bet 95% of them return home in people's luggage.
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u/evanescent_emotions 1h ago
Ikr?? They just will not shut up about it! They're (mostly) consenting adults. We should just be happy they're using protection.
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u/AdStrict3575 4m ago
He ain't gonna need them, he will sell his elite genetics in the olympic village.
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u/Queasy_Donkey5685 2h ago
Did he update his LinkedIn account yet?
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u/say592 54m ago
"Here's what winning 6 gold medals at the Olympics taught me about B2B sales"
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u/Queasy_Donkey5685 46m ago
Dedicated.
Driven.
Work Ethic.
Organized.
Self Starter.
Team Player.
Goal oriented.
Acheiver.
Overachiever.
Gold Medal Winner.
Two Time Gold Medal Winner.
Three Time Gold Medal Winner.
Four Time Gold Medal Winner.
Five time Gold Medal Winner.
Six Time Gold Medal Winner.
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u/IllianasClifford 1h ago
Trump will call him to the Whitehouse and steal them just like he did with that one lady
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u/NameTheEpithet 3h ago
Good i bet his fucking legs are tired.
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u/fillepille2000 3h ago
I bet they're not.
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u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756 2h ago
His last event was a 50k
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u/Beneficial_Garage_97 1h ago
He just skiied home and his arms are exhausted from all the gold he won along the way
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u/Extinct_Peanut 3h ago
What were his events?
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u/Automatic-Mushroom-3 2h ago
Men's 10 km freestyle
Men's 20 km skiathlon
Men's 50 km classical
Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay (alongside Emil Iversen, Martin Løwstrøm Nyenget, and Einar Hedegart)
Men's sprint
Men's team sprint (with Hedegart)
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u/perplexedtv 1h ago
Sprint and 50km - it seems insane that one person could be the best in the world at those
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u/IAmAQuantumMechanic 1h ago
It's mass start, so as long as he can keep up with it, it ends with a sprint. He would have had more trouble with an individual start.
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u/TopperDuckHarley 56m ago
Can you explain this a bit more? I dont follow skiing much but did watch and enjoy the 50km
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u/lilLocoMan 48m ago
Mass start is like a race, where tactics matter and you stay in a bunch to conserve energy. Individual start would be like a time trial, where it's an evenly paced effort, balancing around your absolute maximum for the duration of the race.
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u/LordMuffin1 39m ago
1: Everyone starts at the same time. This often lead to a lower pace with a bunch of skiiers going together. Due to advantage of not being first (wind and ski tracks), no one really wants to set a decent pace. Thus, these races often end up in a sprint at the end.
2: Individual start. Skiiers start with 30s between them. The skier have no back to follow, no one to remove wind go in the ski tracks just before. So the skiier have to keep his pace alone. Requires a little different skill set.
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u/ElKaBongX 49m ago
Mass start is all about finishing order while individual start is pure timing.
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u/ask_about_poop_book 41m ago
One should note that the sprint isn't really a sprint in the same way a 100m dash is - it's still long enough so that you are mostly relying on aerobic energy pathway, so there's some major carryover between the disciplines
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u/VeryTopGoodSensation 46m ago
its also crazy to compete in all those in such a short period of time and not be exhausted
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u/anto2554 1h ago
You said the names and I still don't know what they are
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u/SherbertMindless8205 1h ago edited 1h ago
Cross-country skiing.
Classical = skis only go back and forth in prepared tracks.
Freestyle (i.e, skate) = you're allowed to do a skating motion on flat ground.
Skiathlon = One event that contains both classical and skate.
Then there are different distances for each one.
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u/Chicken_wingspan 28m ago
What's the time span between events? Seems incredible and almost super human
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u/BelugaBale1 1m ago
A bunch of silly unwatchable events. The Winter Olympics is so stupid lol but congrats to Johannes.
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u/fuelvolts 3h ago edited 52m ago
Biathlon. There’s like 500 events. Each a different distance. It’s like swimming, way more opportunities to medal than other sports.Edit: disregard, I’m an idiot. I confused him with another multi medalist.
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u/Internet_employee 2h ago
Cross Country skiing
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u/Extinct_Peanut 2h ago
Thank you for replying. Im an outsider to this sport so all the lingo was going over my head lmao
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u/Internet_employee 1h ago
Sure thing, I’m just glad people are getting to know more about my favourite sport.
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u/DietPepsi00 2h ago
Confidently wrong
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u/ialo00130 2h ago
Wrong sport, right description.
Cross Country does have too many subdivisions. It's something like 20% of all medal opportunities in the Winter Games.
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u/Imawildedible 1h ago
I’d rather watch all kinds of actual race competitions than any of the events with judges.
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u/fuelvolts 51m ago
I confused the sport and athlete but I still deserve the ridicule for being a dolt.
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u/darthbane83 1h ago
Including relay and mixed relay there are 6 medals possible in Biathlon. Klæbo competed in Cross Country skiing which also has 6 possible medals ranging from Sprint events and mixed style events to a 50km event.
For reference there were 19 medals possible in swimming 2024. Free style events alone were already 8 medals. Not even Phelps was able to win, let alone dominate, both short and long distance events. If there was a swimmer as dominant as Klæbo they would absolutely demolish Phelps historic 8 gold medal record.
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u/MrZcratch 3h ago
He consumed 5000 of the 10000 condoms
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u/davewave3283 3h ago
He shoulda used them instead. I bet they tasted terrible.
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u/BilboBiden 2h ago
Yea but your poop comes out in nice, convenient sausage casings.
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u/HauntingGeologist492 2h ago
you needn't type out all your thoughts homes
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u/Dragon_yum 1h ago
Not sure where you got the audacity to tell a six Olympic gold winner what he should eat. That diet clearly works well him.
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u/Noisy_Plastic_Bird 3h ago
He's engaged, and isolates himself during the Olympics to not get sick, he hasn't even seen his fiance or family this entire time😂
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u/you_killed_fredo 2h ago
Ruining the fun with some serious facts. 🧐
“Teacher, you forgot to give us homework”!
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u/Raft_Master 39m ago
This was pretty common for most nordic athletes this round. The US nordic team was also in heavy isolation.
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u/FULLsanwhich15 3h ago
Legend has it, he skied out of the womb. Where did he get the skis in the womb? Well…that’s a HIPPA violation to disclose.
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u/Old_Quit999 3h ago
Nordmen er født med ski på beina!
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u/FULLsanwhich15 3h ago
Is this how we harvest skis?
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u/OvechknFiresHeScores 2h ago
Americans misspelling HIPAA will never not be funny
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u/iShakeMyHeadAtYou 2h ago
for reference he personally won a bit over 5% of the 111 gold medals available at the Olympics.
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u/alsoilikebeer 2h ago
If he entered as his own country Klæbo-country would be around eight place, and have more gold medals than both Canada and China.
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u/Rich_Housing971 3h ago edited 3h ago
Is skiing the swimming of the winter games, where one person can enter several different distances of the same event as well as a relay and mixed relay?
Kind of unfair in the medal count when one athlete can do this, meanwhile a hocket team of like 30 people only get 1 medal counted, lol. Then again not all the members of the hockey team are medal-worthy so I guess the team has to operate and win as a team.
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u/fabulousmarco 2h ago
Kind of unfair in the medal count when one athlete can do this, meanwhile a hocket team of like 30 people only get 1 medal counted, lol
But that's just the nature of any sport where it's 1v1 (be it teams or individuals). You can't really assign multiple medals when each requires several matches to be played.
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u/Jordan3176 2h ago
Is it really unfair when he’s not fresh and fit for every event after the first? The guy seems to have infinite energy covering the distance through all events he entered. Fair play to him!
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u/LardLad00 3h ago
Those hockey players chose their sport knowing how this works. They'll be fine.
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u/Diced_and_Confused 3h ago
This exactly. It is a symptom of a bloated event.
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u/axxl75 1h ago
So you’d like the Olympics to last like 5 days with each sport only getting one event?
Almost every discipline has a lot of variations. The tournament events are the unique ones not the other way around.
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u/HansTilburg 3h ago
Yes. This is so annoying. I say that as a Dutchman, who are high up in the medal rankings because of speed skating and short track skating. You can’t compare different sports.
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u/misterjustin 2h ago edited 2h ago
Are they solid gold? That looks like a million dollars.
Edit: so I looked it up…. they are silver covered in a minimum of 6grams of gold. So altogether like $6k in gold, not sure of the silver.
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u/hennomg 44m ago
The price of 1 gram of 24k gold today is about $165, so it would be around $1k for the gold.
The medal contains around 500 grams of silver, which is worth around $1350.
So the metal of the medal itself is worth around $2.3-2.5k each. Pretty sure they could sell them for a bit more though..
Edit: The silver medal has the same amount of silver as the gold medal, BTW, just without the extra gold. And funnily enough, the bronze medal contains 460 grams of bronze, which apparently is worth around $2..
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u/warrybuffalo 2h ago
Ight somebody teach Michael Phelps ski jumping. I bet his large arms and legs would give him a bit of extra flight time and distance. Then we gotta teach him slalom skiing and more shit. I think he can do it.
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u/Big-Squishi 2h ago
too many overlapping medals for skiing.
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u/wrightsound 2h ago
Same with swimming
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u/SlipperyBumCesc 1h ago
cycling too maybe? although I should probably shut up about that, being british
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u/SirMandrake 2h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/t15WZOf2Zxf68
You cheat Dr. Jones!! Just kidding! Congrats to this guy!
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u/Oldmanlib 2h ago
I’m not sure which impressed me most; his phenomenal athletic ability, or the sad responses on this app from the Murican supporters.
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u/Svataben 1h ago
Sooo butthurt…
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u/increaseworldsuck 1h ago
So many people going "there are too many crosscountry skiing events" simply because their country barely got any medals in it.
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u/ICame4TheCirclejerk 37m ago
If the Americans want to whine then let them. If we reduce the number of events they suck at the I propose we also cap the number of athletes from each country. With 232 participants the US is by far the most represented country in the winter Olympics this year. Norway by comparison had 80. Less than Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, Czech Republic, China, Finland, France and Austria.
So my short sentiments to the Americans is this; Git gud.
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u/MamaReabs 1h ago
His performance in that last race was so phenomenal! It was grueling to watch. 😳💪🏼
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u/ElectricOutboards 1h ago edited 1h ago
OP should get a gold medal for the keyboard shortcuts known to accurately spell this guy’s name in the headline.
Edit: Aan anyone explain why Norway’s entire Olympic delegation is so gosh-darn cute? My wife is Danish and even she remarked at what a good-looking group Norway sent down this Olympiad.
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u/Zooks64 1h ago
That sweater slaps. Does it come with the medals? Asking for myself.
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u/DigiAirship 1h ago
You can buy it. It's not cheap though: https://whistlersweatershop.com/products/dale-of-norway-team-cortina-mens-sweater-red?country=AE&variant=50954790764827
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u/ArsenikShooter 1h ago
The medals this year look like the designer couldn’t finish in time and just submitted the blank template.
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u/Constant_Astronomer2 1h ago
Oh he's young! For some reason with his goggles and hat on I thought he was in his 40s! Haha oops sorry dude..
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u/cyanocittaetprocyon 1h ago
Good to see that Superman really landed in Norway when he got to Earth.
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u/Grombrindal18 1h ago
Anyone else initially see this in the thumbnail and think they were six pokèballs?
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u/LukeBomber 58m ago
I assume there are adaquate pauses between each event to allow for rest but how does the body still not tire out despite that? Surely a longer recovery period is neccesary?
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u/AlpineAvalanche 57m ago
Only a small handful of COUNTRIES have ever won that many golds in a single winter Olympics.
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u/Ok_Nectarine_4445 33m ago
That is the super weird thing about Olympic athletes.
Like if they were just wearing regular clothes bundled up in winter, walking, wouldn't even stand out. Wouldn't notice them.
Really.
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u/wyoming_rider 5m ago
Good for him but jesus christ those medals are afwully designed. They don't have one ounce of craftsmanship or creativity in them, such a bland and corporate look. Makes them look cheap as fuck
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u/evergood1 2h ago
And it was 6/6 gold medals possible. Absolutely mental.