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...statistics are remarkable. At Salt Lake City the U.S. (pop. 284 million) had its most successful Games ever, pulling in more than 30 medals. Europe's second-most populous country, Germany (pop. 83 million) topped the table with a record medal haul. Norway (pop. 4.5 million) quietly skied off with more than 20 medals, half of them gold...
Until Bjorndalen's record-breaking feats, the Norwegian team's star performer in Salt Lake City had been alpine skier Kjetil Andre Aamodt. By taking two gold medals Aamodt wrote himself into the record books with seven Olympic medals, more than any other alpine skier. He was favored to win the combined - one downhill run and two slaloms - and then went on to snatch the super-G from Austrian favorite Stephan Eberharter by .10 sec. The two victories were not a bad result for the 30-year-old, who is often referred to as "the veteran" even though...
...skier, 31-year-old Lasse Kjus. He won his first Olympic medal at Lillehammer and has two overall World Cup championships as well as a total of 15 Olympic and world championship medals. Despite struggling for the past few years with chronic sinus and bronchial problems, Kjus came to Salt Lake City expecting to win medals. In the men's downhill he made silver and won bronze in the giant slalom...
Future results for Norway could possibly come in the more extreme skiing events, following World Cup freestyle skiing moguls champion Kari Traa's gold medal. The success of their athletes at Salt Lake City is likely to make sports- mad Norwegians even more enthusiastic. Televised biathlon regularly pulls audiences of around 25% of the population, rising to an estimated 34% for the men's Olympic relay competition. "There's such a strong national feeling," says Aamodt. "I'm thankful that I come from a nation that so strongly supports winter sports...
When it comes to winning Winter Olympic medals, Norway is impressive because it's such a small nation, and the U.S. can't be missed because of its big-nation swagger and a medal total in Salt Lake that is nearly three times its previous high. But it is the Germans, always solid and steady, who were on top of the medal table with more than...