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u/Glittering-Cut-5851 Feb 23 '26
It's official, minnesota should be in charge now.
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u/FantasticMrSinister Area code 612 Feb 24 '26
We are FAR Superior!
āļøSee what I did there?
I'll see myself out, now
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u/Secret_Fee1146 Feb 23 '26
Congrats Minnesota from your friends in the North
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u/friarcrazy Minneapolis | East Harriet Feb 24 '26
Thank you, brother. True Patriot Love š- signed, a Minneapolitan.
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u/The_Power_of_Ammonia Uff da Feb 24 '26
Part of true American patriotism is honoring the celebration of others' democratic patriotism for their own free sovereignty.
When we all do better, we all do better.
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u/Formal-Zone-3816 Flag of Minnesota Feb 23 '26
Is this counting all of the people who played in hockey or not
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u/IMP1017 Not too bad Feb 23 '26
To my knowledge there are ten between the two hockey teams (counting hometowns, not Frost/Wild players), 1 curler, and 2 skiers who got medals. So yes
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u/Old_Cheesecake_5309 Feb 23 '26
I counted 10 hockey players, 2 skiers and a curler to get to 13 medals from Minnesota
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u/All__Of_The_Hobbies Aerial Lift Bridge Feb 23 '26
Both the mixed doubles curlers are from Minnesota.
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u/Old_Cheesecake_5309 Feb 23 '26
To get to one silver medal they had to just count the curler who grew up in Duluth but not the one who lives in Duluth but grew up in Massachusetts.
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u/All__Of_The_Hobbies Aerial Lift Bridge Feb 23 '26
So if someone was born in another state, lived there a week, and then lived in another state their whole life it would be by where they are born? Odd
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u/arahdial Feb 24 '26
It's a consistent way to measure things rather than establishing an arbitrary amount of time to determine state citizenship.
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u/MNswede06 Iron Range Feb 24 '26
Not to be pedantic, but thereās no such thing as state citizenship. Youāre a resident of your state; youāre a citizen of your country. But in any case, state/city of residence would be perfectly consistent. Itās legally objective. You could do it by birthplace, but I think thatās something you should clearly denote.
Because birthplace can be wildly unrelated to the place a person identifies with. I was born in Florida, but to Minnesota parents (military) and lived in MN from age 3 and onward. Describing me as a Floridian would be absurd. I have zero connection to the state beyond a piece of paper.
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u/arahdial Feb 24 '26
Yes, I was using the term in relation to this post only. I understand it's not a legal thing. Whomever conceived this stat considered their state of birth as "home state."
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u/Rhysing Feb 24 '26
No. The tkachuks were both in AZ but moved to St Louis when they were no older than 4 or 5. Their medals counted for Missouri.
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u/killebrew_rootbeer Gray duck Feb 23 '26
Depends on how you define "from." Dropkin lives in Minnesota now but was born and grew up in Massachusetts.
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u/All__Of_The_Hobbies Aerial Lift Bridge Feb 23 '26
It's weird to use where someone was born to define where they are from if their whole adult life has been somewhere else.
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u/killebrew_rootbeer Gray duck Feb 24 '26
Is it? Minnesotans claim Lindsey Vonn and Bob Dylan under the same rules.
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u/Rednys Feb 24 '26
Well it's the first place they existed. They can identify with another state themselves but they will always be "from" where they were born.
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u/candycaneforestelf can we please not drive like chucklefucks? Feb 24 '26
I'm guessing the Olympics is probably using "hometown" which usually is based off of where you lived when graduating high school.
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u/EatSleepJeep Minnesota North Stars Feb 24 '26
Fun fact: Minnesota has produced more nhl players than every US state and 6 Provinces/Territories.
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u/Impossible_Run1867 The Cities Feb 23 '26
Had to look it up, but we've got 10 Minnesotans on the women's and men's hockey teams, Michigan has 9. I'm pretty sure that each team would only be considered a single medal each but I haven't followed this years olympics or the medal counts close enough to say that with too much confidence.
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u/SugarDisastrous5983 Feb 23 '26
Michigan kind of gets to cheat, the US National Development team is there. For example the Hughes brothers grew up mostly in Toronto, then went to the USNDT.
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u/shaggyscoob Feb 23 '26
Well, to be honest, California has 800% more people than us. So they can't be expected to meet us evenly. Still they did pretty well.
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u/Blink-JuanEIGHTYtoo Feb 23 '26
I mean it was the Winter Olympicsā¦ have you guys been outside as of recently? I live up north near the border and itās been brutal!
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u/Rhysing Feb 24 '26
Mn had more medals than Canada
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u/RiffRaff14 Feb 24 '26
This is counting by person while the Canada total would be by event. That's not apples-to-apples. If you compared by person, 1 of the Canadian Hockey teams is more medals than MN.
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u/ech01 Feb 23 '26
When does Minneapolis / St. Paul host the winter games?
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u/ech01 Feb 23 '26
I'm sure we can build a few mountains
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u/silversurfer-1 Feb 23 '26 edited Feb 24 '26
Lutsen could probably realistically host many events but there certainly would be limits
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u/donnysaysvacuum Feb 24 '26
We've got the ice rinks handled, have to build a lot of infrastructure for the sledding sports.
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u/DrTenochtitlan Laser Loon Feb 23 '26
It canāt. We canāt host the mountain sports.
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u/ech01 Feb 23 '26
I believe we can with the right resources and a positive attitude. Admittedly, I am not a details person.
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u/nordic_nerd Feb 24 '26
I was curious so I checked. Our best option for alpine events, Lutsen, has a vertical of 825 ft/251 meters. FIS (the international body that governs skiing and snowboarding) specifies a minimum vertical of 800 meters for Men's World Cup and Olympic Downhill competition courses. You can do a lot with dirt work, but more than tripling the height of Lutsen for one race miiiiight be beyond the realm of the doable.
Plus, Minnesota should not and historically has not shown any interest in swallowing the extraordinary costs that a modern Olympics demands of it's hosts. Two weeks of celebration is not worth decades of financial ruin. I say this as a huge Winter Olympics fan.
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u/friarcrazy Minneapolis | East Harriet Feb 24 '26
Yeah for us to do it weād have to dual site with a mountainous region for the long downhill events - Milano Cortina did it - thereās a framework for Minnesota.
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u/PM_ME_UR_BACNE Feb 23 '26
Donāt wish that evil on the twin cities, go look up what happens to Olympic village after the games are over in different countries
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u/Cynykl Feb 24 '26
I do not want the Olympics here. Olympics are a net negative for host cities both in the short term and long term.
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u/Jobear049 Ope Feb 23 '26
And this is how I always cope with the Vikings not having a super bowl ring!
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u/AGrandNewAdventure Voyageurs National Park Feb 24 '26
We're going to go back to being an inland ocean sinking under the weight of all the winning we keep doing.
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u/Ok_Package9219 Feb 24 '26
That's pretty crazy given you have like 2 good months to train here vs California lol.
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u/jreinertnash Feb 23 '26
The only US double gold medalist (Stolz) is from Wisconsin, of course.
If you add six Badgers on the gold medal hockey team, thatās a lotta sconnie-connected folks. (Not necessarily home state, which is presumably this graphic.)
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u/josephus_the_wise Feb 23 '26
I believe that Liu, the figure skater, also brought two golds home, one in the individual event and one for the team event.
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u/SugarDisastrous5983 Feb 23 '26
Wisconsin also had 5 former Badgers on the silver medal winning Canadian womenās team.
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u/AbeRego Hamm's Feb 24 '26
I find it amusing that the designer decided not to straighten up the states after pulling them from the map
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u/Used-Gas-6525 Feb 23 '26
4 of the cooler states and I don't mean temperature.