Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Thursday, December 02, 2004 What about Norway?I looked at Norway's WOC results the same way as I looked at Sweden's.Norway won 8 medals: 3 gold, 1 silver and 4 bronze. The list shows each medalist and how much time they were from not winning a medal. For example, Elisabeth Ingvaldsen took 3rd in the sprint race, but if she'd run 1.6 seconds slower she'd have finished 4th. Sprint Ingvaldsen (bronze) 0:01.6* Long Valstad (gold) 3:06.7 Hott-Johansen (bronze) 1:31.5 Staff (silver) 0:31.1 Middle Staff (gold) 0:42.8 Nordberg (bronze) 0:02.2 Relay women (bronze) 5:48.0 men (gold) 1:41.0 Add all of the times up and you get 13:24.5. Norway was 13 minutes from taking no medals. I also figured out how much time Norway was from taking no gold medals -- 48.9 seconds. The Swedish O' Federation describes themselves as "the world's best national team." But, you know it is pretty hard to say they are much better than Norway. Sure, Sweden had a couple of silver medals, but Norway had one more medal overall. Both nations had 3 gold medals. To me the real difference between the results of Sweden and Norway is that Sweden dominated the sprint while Norway dominated the long. Norway also took a medal in each discipline. Sweden took no middle distance medals. Kind of interesting that Sweden entered into new contracts with their team coaches while Norway hired a new team coach. *I should point out that I did all of these calculations in my head and didn't double check my math. I think I got the math right, but I wouldn't bet a lot of money on it. posted by Michael | 7:23 PM 
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