I just try to live every day as if I’ve deliberately come back to this one day, to enjoy it, as if it was the full final day of extraordinary, ordinary life!
Norway's youth sports model is super unique:
• No scorekeeping until age 13
• Participation trophies for everyone
• No travel teams or national championships
• No online publishing of scores or athlete rankings
• Parents typically spend less than $1,000 per child per year
The result?
A 93% participation rate — 40 points higher than the U.S. — and more Winter Olympic medals than any other country in history, despite Norway having a population comparable to the Philadelphia metro area (5.6 million).
And it's not just winter sports...
Norway now produces some of the world’s best summer sport athletes, including Erling Haaland (soccer), Casper Ruud (tennis), Viktor Hovland (golf), and Jakob Ingebrigtsen (track and field).
So if you want to learn more about how Norway's youth sports system actually works (and what other countries can learn from it), here's an essay I recently wrote during the Winter Olympics that breaks it all down.
READ: https://t.co/PeD07abUY3
This game went south in the first two minutes when Brazile and Ewin were blown for fouls jockeying for position with their big men. Got in Brazile’s head and it was over.
What could’ve been… Knox helps us defends and hits a few 3s and if we shoot our season average 3 pt % instead of whatever happened tonight, this is a real game!