Two big factors help explain why Norway -- a country with only a little more than five million residents -- is atop the medal count in the Winter Olympics. | Analysis by Harry Enten
There's a familiar country atop the medal count in the Winter Olympics: Norway. The country has even set a new mark for most gold medals -- after Johannes Thingnes Bø won his fourth of Beijing 2022 in the men's biathlon 15km mass start -- in a single Winter Games with 15.
This might surprise some given that Norway has only a little more than five million residents -- not even in the top 100 most populated countries.So what's the secret to Norway's historical and current success? Two big factors really. The first is, perhaps obviously, the weather. It's the Winter Olympics after all. Norway ranks in the bottom five in World Bank data for average temperature during the year at about 36 degrees Fahrenheit .
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