I live in a part of the US where historically there has been a huge amount of Finnish immigration, in fact historically one of the most active areas of Finnish immigration and their descendants in the US outside of Michigan (Clark County, WA).
Mostly it was the fact they’re Apostolic Lutherens, which is a religious denomination not found in many other areas of the world.
It was very interesting growing up alongside them in the schools, but over the last three decades they have absolutely dominated the general construction industry in the area.
Finnish-American companies have corporate headquarters in my city now that do work in multiple states and seem very successful and profitable.
They must be doing something right.
This looks like the law of diminishing returns
To what extent?
I had a Helsinking feeling it was going to end this way for them…
This one is amazing
Ain’t norway
I wonder if the country is Finnish after this Olympics?
More of a Winter Olympics country, no?
303 medals from summer games, 167 from winter games
So?
We need motorsport at the Olympics, Finns would dominate it
They should make use of their huge Somali immigrant population and produce the next generation of “Flying Finns”
*its*
Learn grammar; fool.oh shit lmao i know grammar. i just forgot to look over the post. i’m finnish myself
Did you just…lmao nevermind.
I have an Olympian member who did not medal. There are only so many winners! Hold your heads high. You are still elite athletes! You are still amazing!
And looked good doing it.
What other Countries had zero medals ?
114 out of the 206 countries failed to medal…
I believe it was 204 this time, but only 91 NOCs got medals, including a first for the refugee team
Don’t know why you’re being downvoted. The answer is lots of them (not like it really matters).
Oof and I thought Poland had it rough
Don’t worry, they’ll make up for it in 2 years.
Is it fair to use Wilma Murto’s pic?
Sixth place in an Olympics after a recent injury is pretty good i think.
this image is from our national media. i just chose it randomly
How many other counties failed to get a medal at the Paris Olympics?
114 out of 206 failed to medal, though only Nigeria (88) had more athletes than Finland (56) among those, while the vast majority were there with less than 10
