America 1, Norway 1, Magnus 2

Imagine yourself in a large field filled with spectators of a sporting event. They have run towards a large television screen to witness the finish of an exciting event. The event is over, the result decided, when a young man turns around and surveys the scene. He sees a nation of people with the heads hung low, contemplating their failure. But wait! There in the middle of the field stands a man in a red coat, arms aloft, a sly grin spreading from cheek to cheek.

This scene was maybe the best part of my dad's visit to Norway. After the women's sprint final in Drammen (we were watching from a little ways above the stadium and watched much of the race on the massive screen they had set up) I turned around and saw tons of norwegians looking glumly towards the screen and then my dad the only person celebrating with his arms up in the air. It was pretty sweet. Overall having my dad visit and watching the world cups was awesome the only negative was our not seeing America's top ski journalist, Nat Hertz (does he have a facebook fanpage yet?). Now I can't wait now to watch to the last weekend of the world champs. In the meantime watching on TV should do just fine.



Now for a small complaint about Norway (no, not their terrible selection of breakfast cereal, but good guess). On the 20th of February NRK the main norwegian television company (run by the state) had a feature on Bill Koch which it seems everyone in my class except me got to see. Now, I know what channel it was on, the date, and the approximate time it aired yet have been unable to watch it online. This should not be possible. While NRK has a fully operation website where one can watch many of there programs for some reason I can't watch the Bill Koch feature. Very unsatisfactory.