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Abu Muqawama Salutes Odd-Bjoern Hjelmeset
The David Brooks love letter to the people of Norway in today's New York Times is worth reading. A true profile in courage from the nation of 4.7m people that has won more medals than any other nation in the history of the Winter Olympics:
He was hunted by about 50 Germans and left a trail in the deep snow. He’d lost one boot and sock, and he was bleeding from where his big toe had been shot off. He scrambled across the island and swam successively across the icy sound to two other islands. On the second, he lay dying of cold and exhaustion on the beach. ...
A 72-year-old man rowed him the final 10 miles to the mainland, past German positions, and gave him skis. Up in the mountains, he skied through severe winter storms. One night, he started an avalanche. He fell at least 300 feet, smashed his skis and suffered a severe concussion. His body was buried in snow, but his head was sticking out. He lost sense of time and self-possession. He was blind, the snow having scorched the retinas of his eyes.
But I couldn't read the op-ed without thinking about Odd-Bjoern Hjelmeset, who, when asked about his team's second place finish in the cross-country relay in this year's Olympics, delivered what is surely the greatest quote in Olympic history and perhaps the greatest quote by an athlete to the media since Eric Cantona's famous "seagull" speech:
My name is Odd-Bjoern Hjelmeset. I skied the second lap and I f---ed up today. I think I have seen too much porn in the last 14 days. I have the room next to Petter Northug and every day there is noise in there. So I think that is the reason I f---ed up. By the way Tiger Woods is a really good man.
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Here is the same Norwegian
Here is the same Norwegian athlete talking Japanese:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q66qrw9gKsk
What a hero.
There just as many stories
There just as many stories that came out of Finland's Winter war.
Here is about an hour long video documentary of the Winter War. (bring up video and start it up)
These guys made a friend of misery....but they knew how to "cut wood".
Pride of a nation. would
Pride of a nation.
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we always criticize athletes
we always criticize athletes for not being genuine to the media, for not speaking their mind and giving us platitudes and canned answers. it's refreshing to see some honesty (at least with regards to the athletic performance). But the PR people for the Norwegian Olympic committee had to be pissed.
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No, it was a huge hit over
No, it was a huge hit over here. Its norwegian humour. We dont have the US hangup about sex. Thats actualy a problem for the local muslaims, aproblem they are dealing with quite well I must say ;-)
so it was a brilliant comment, especially the Tiger Woods part. In Mitternds funeral his mistress and his wife stood side by side.
Can't have hurt that Woods
Can't have hurt that Woods is/was married to a Swede.
Am I the only person with
Am I the only person with internet access who found that article extraordinarily bad? I love me some David Brooks-- never miss him. I met him once and he was real cool, to boot. So I am in a position of authority as a fan here to say that article is a turd.
So people from a cold, mountainous country who-- as the article inadvertently points out!!-- use skis for basic transportation in addition to mere sports-- somehow excel at winter events? However can this be? Hmmm... Hmmm... Must be some explanation. Wait, I've got it! Some bad ass in the 1940s is indicative of the whole culture!
This is absurd. I look forward to future articles pointing the connection between the 1992 Dream Team and the Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery, or China's ping pong dominance with the Long March.
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always criticize athletes for not being real to the media, not to speak your mind and gives us platitudes and canned responses. is refreshing to see some honesty (at least in regard to athletic performance.) But the public relations people for the Norwegian Olympic Committee had to be annoying.
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