USA er uenige med svenskene

Mens svenskene med jevne mellomrom har anklaget oss nordmenn for å være ekle, nesevise, ufine og brautende i vår OL-fremferd er amerikanerne helt uenig. De mener tvert om at vinnende nordmenn er FOR beskjedne.

I en artikkel kalt «mysteriet Norge», omtaler Wall Street Journal Norges særskilte OL-status

"By the end of these Olympic Games, the Norwegians will have pulled off what is, arguably, one of the finest performances in the modern history of sports. Norway has won more Winter Games medals than any other nation. Last week it became the first country to win 100 Olympic gold medals, and Tuesday it hit the 300-medal milestone.

What makes its performance hard to fathom, however, is that Norway has only 4.7 million people to choose from. It's as if the American team finished third in Vancouver after limiting the athlete pool to people living in metropolitan Detroit.

Og i motsetning til svenskene, anser amerikanerne oss som jordnære folk som IKKE skryter unødvendig av oss selv:

Not that they've been bragging or anything. After crossing the finish line Tuesday, Mr. Jansrud didn't beat his chest or pump his fist or mug for the international TV feed—instead he took two deep bows to his applauding countrymen.

Absolutt en Wall Street Journal-artikkel som er verdt å lese!