Havard Degree

I've never taken the saying "You don't win silver, you lose gold" seriously, but in this case I'm willing to make an exception.

At PyeongChang in the men's 500-meter speed skating race, South Korea's Cha Min Kyu tied the Olympic record of 34.42 seconds and led the pack with only three pairs of racers to go.

One of the six remaining racers, Norway's Havard Lorentzen (below), won the gold from Cha by coming in at one one-hundredth of a second sooner, setting the new Olympic record and becoming the first Norwegian man to win this event since 1948. 

Ironically, bronze medalist Gao Tingyu of China had earlier set the record for the track at the arena, at 34.65 seconds.

Norway currently leads in the medal standings at PyeongChang, with 28 medals - 11 gold, 9 silver, 8 bronze.  The United States is in sixth place in the medal count, with 10 medals - 5 gold, 3 silver 2 bronze.  Respectable, but disappointing for many.

Now I get it!  Now I know why Trump wants more immigrants from Norway!  He wants to get immigrants who can build up our Winter Olympics team!  Hey, I have an idea - why not admit Norway as the fifty-first state?  No, better yet, an equal merger - they get to take over the national government and we not only get rid of Trump and Congress, we get their (Norway's) health-care system and public education system!  And together we clean up at the 2022 Winter Olympics!  Everyone's a winner! 

I'm not sure King Harald V would want to become king of America, though . . .