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Norway Skater Blames Excessive Porn-Watching for Silver Finish

Feb 26, 2010 – 1:00 PM
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Will Brinson

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The Olympics don't offer medals for frank observations. Which is too bad, really, because Norwegian skiier and would-be Bond character Odd-Bjoern Hjelmeset (second from left) would have earned himself a permanent gold with his recent Tiger Woods-inspired quotes following his performance in the men's 4x10 relay.

The goodness comes via Richard Deitsch's excellent Olympic coverage at SI:
My name is Odd-Bjoern Hjelmeset. I skied the second lap and I f----- up today. I think I have seen too much porn in the last 14 days. I have the room next to Petter Northhug and every day there is noise in there. So I think that is the reason I f----- up. By the way, Tiger Woods is a really good man.
As Deitsch notes, it's "by far the craziest quote" to come out of the Olympics. And one could argue that it's in the pantheon of amazing quotes because it involves someone announcing himself as "Odd-Bjoern Hjelmeset" and then dropping two f-bombs before blaming it all on porn. All while managing to slip in a Tiger reference, too.

Although I'm sure Woods doesn't appreciate it, at least his reference wasn't as ambiguous as Petter Northhug's, who "makes a lot of noise" apparently. Whatever the hell that means.

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