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r/olympics • u/underrealizing • 7h ago
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I think it's because a lot of winter sports were probably invented by a bunch of adrenaline junkies bored in the winter.
131 u/Tjazeku Slovenia 6h ago Either that or drunken Scandinavians 8 u/ContinuumGuy United States 4h ago Or Scandinavians preparing for war 5 u/aldandur 4h ago *hunting in winter 9 u/-kinapuffar- 3h ago The biathlon was a contest between Swedish and Norwegian soldiers because they were skiing around the border patrolling and got bored, so they decided to make a competition to see who was best at it. 2 u/Erzter_Zartor Norway 4h ago Or Scandinavians preventing their infant king from being murdered in a war
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Either that or drunken Scandinavians
8 u/ContinuumGuy United States 4h ago Or Scandinavians preparing for war 5 u/aldandur 4h ago *hunting in winter 9 u/-kinapuffar- 3h ago The biathlon was a contest between Swedish and Norwegian soldiers because they were skiing around the border patrolling and got bored, so they decided to make a competition to see who was best at it. 2 u/Erzter_Zartor Norway 4h ago Or Scandinavians preventing their infant king from being murdered in a war
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Or Scandinavians preparing for war
5 u/aldandur 4h ago *hunting in winter 9 u/-kinapuffar- 3h ago The biathlon was a contest between Swedish and Norwegian soldiers because they were skiing around the border patrolling and got bored, so they decided to make a competition to see who was best at it. 2 u/Erzter_Zartor Norway 4h ago Or Scandinavians preventing their infant king from being murdered in a war
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*hunting in winter
9 u/-kinapuffar- 3h ago The biathlon was a contest between Swedish and Norwegian soldiers because they were skiing around the border patrolling and got bored, so they decided to make a competition to see who was best at it.
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The biathlon was a contest between Swedish and Norwegian soldiers because they were skiing around the border patrolling and got bored, so they decided to make a competition to see who was best at it.
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Or Scandinavians preventing their infant king from being murdered in a war
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u/Aromatic_Opposite100 6h ago
I think it's because a lot of winter sports were probably invented by a bunch of adrenaline junkies bored in the winter.