{"id":1670,"date":"2014-02-22T10:39:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T10:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2014-08-22T19:00:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T19:00:18","slug":"this-machine-makes-gold-from-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/this-machine-makes-gold-from-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"This machine makes gold from snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heia Norge!<\/strong> (Go Norway!) The Norwegian athletes are taking Sotsji<\/strong> and the 2014 Vinter-OL<\/strong> by storm. So far, their chests have been adorned with 10 gullmedaljer<\/strong> (gold medals), 4 s\u00f8lv<\/strong> [sell] and 8 bronse<\/strong> [BRONGseh]. That\u2019s one gull<\/strong> more than the host nation of Russland<\/strong>, and with only two days left of the spectacle, it\u2019s likely that Norway will stay ahead in skisporet<\/strong> [SHEEspohret] (the skiing track)\u2026<\/p>\n

Den norske gullfesten<\/strong> (the Norwegian \u201dgold party\u201d) started two weeks ago, when skidronninga<\/strong> (\u201dthe Ski Queen\u201d) Marit Bj\u00f8rgen spurtet fra alle de andre skil\u00f8perne<\/strong> (spurted away from all the other skiers) in a 15 km race of Norway\u2019s nasjonalidrett<\/strong> (national sport), langrenn<\/strong> (cross-country skiing, literally \u201dlong run\u201d). Another star athlete, Ole Einar Bj\u00f8rndalen, didn\u2019t disappoint either, taking f\u00f8rsteplassen<\/strong> (the first place) in the skiskyting<\/strong> [SHEEsheeting] (biathlon, literally \u201dski-shooting\u201d) sprint later that day. (For those of you who\u2019re not into winter sports, biathlon is a sport where you alternate between racing on your skis and lying down in the sn\u00f8<\/strong> \u2013 snow \u2013 to fire at a target with a special kind of gun.)<\/p>\n

This Thursday, a lag<\/strong> (team) of four skiers won Norway its tenth gold medal in the vintersport<\/strong> known as kombinert<\/strong> (\u201dcombined\u201d). In this sport, the skiers combine langrenn<\/strong> and skihopp<\/strong> (ski jump). One of gullguttene<\/strong> (\u201dthe gold boys\u201d), Magnus Moan, later told Norwegian television:<\/p>\n

– Dette er helt sinnsykt bra. Det er artig, alts\u00e5! Jeg er s\u00e5 stolt. For en seier.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201dThis is totally insanely good. It\u2019s fun, it is! I\u2019m so proud. What a victory.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bj\u00f8rgen, Bj\u00f8rndalen and Moan are still lagging behind the Norwegian medal record in Lillehammer, 1994, when the Norwegians won a total of 26 medals on their native snow. (So far, they\u2019ve got 22 medals in Sochi.) Nevertheless, no matter how big the final medaljefangst<\/strong> (medal \u201dcapture\u201d) turns out, for many Norwegians the main goal has already been achieved: Beating Sweden.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qy7gzM-EuEE<\/a>\u00a0Kristin St\u00f8rmer Steira wins a heat in Sochi \u2013 and Norwegian television is cheering on her with the kind of enthusiasm you\u2019ll only find in Norway\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heia Norge! (Go Norway!) The Norwegian athletes are taking Sotsji and the 2014 Vinter-OL by storm. So far, their chests have been adorned with 10 gullmedaljer (gold medals), 4 s\u00f8lv [sell] and 8 bronse [BRONGseh]. That\u2019s one gull more than the host nation of Russland, and with only two days left of the spectacle, it\u2019s…<\/p>\n

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