Let me add a few reflections (this will be a long post) in this sports-thread as well since I am a huge Winter Sports fan and very proud of
Norway's traditions and accomplishments as the World's greatest Winter Sport nation (as seen in the last several Winter Olympics). For a small country like ours that is quite an achievement but we have always been best at winter sports which has to do with our climate, our long winters, culture and traditions rather than summer sports. In other countries it is the opposite.
I see some people complain about Norway's dominance in cross-country skiing, but they seem to forget that the world's greatest male long distance cross-country skiier this year is Russian (Bolshunov). And the best women's sprinters are Swedish (several of them have been injured this season) and we also have a top Slovenian sprinter who has won many world cup events. But we are up there competing hard, as we should, and do have the world's best female long distance skiier in Therese Johaug and the best male sprinter in Johannes Høstflot Klæbo. They are an inspiration for other Norwegian skiiers and surely for many in other countries too.
But if we look some years back, the Swiss skiier Dario Cologna was at or near the top for several years, the Czech skiier Lukas Bauer was a dominant force in the world cup and Tour de Ski, and further back the Russian female skiiers in the 1990s ruled the world of long-distance skiing. And in 5 years time things could be quite different. Therese Johaug will have retired and Swedish Frida Carlsson could well be the world number 1 among the women with Russian Bulshonov nr 1 among the men. So things change and are not constant in sport though some countries (due to aforementioned culture, tradition, priority, economy etc) will always be among the best outdistancing others.
The complaints against Norway do leave a bad taste in my mouth though. They smell of envy. I can't recall people complaining and trying to change things with type of events etc to avoid Välbe, Jegorova & co winning all the time in the 1990s. The Netherlands were dominant for years and years in long distance skating with Kramer & co but nobody complained and tried to change things so that others had a greater chance of winning. Same in long distance running for that matter when Kenyans dominated athletics years on end in championships. So this envy especially by central-Europe towards Norway and attempting to change events/skiing-styles etc in order to stop Norway from winning is unsportsmanlike in my view. They should instead work harder to get to number one, much comes down to training methods, hard hard work over time, creating a great back-up team with ski-waxers etc to achieve improvement and success.
In biathlon we just has the world championships where France and Norway were the best overall, not surprising since these two countries have been the best in the world in biathlon over many years now. To be honest Norway had far from a perfect championship seeing as the world number one, together with Fourcade, Johannes Thingnes Bø had an average competition having dominated the world cup earlier in the season. But he became a father this winter and took a break from events for a while, and so was unable to be in his best form for the championship (personally I don't think his head was 100% on the events at the start of the competition, but also on his child, understandable in the circumstances). Even so he got several medals and winning the final event was a wonderful - and in my opinion deserved - achievement.
The French team (incl. Fourcade) which had been below par earlier in the season were in top form in the championship and did the best, winning several events. Norway won several smaller relays though (mix etc) and ended up with many medals in the end, much due to our excellent female biathlete Marte Olsbu Røiseland who managed an incredible 7 medals from 7 events (making history) incl. 2 individual golds. Italian Dorothea Wierer also won several golds for Italy, an impressive feat on 'home turf', while the French females were below par which can also be said for the world number one earlier in the season, Norwegian Tiril Eckhoff, who had a poor disappointing championship (personally I think it's a mental issue with her; she struggles with nerves when it comes to championships). It just shows there are never any guarrantees for victory in any sport, it all comes down to training, hard work, mental capacity and some luck on the day.
Biathlon may be a small sport on the world stage but in Norway it has always been huge and very popular. Ole Einar Bjørndalen, the greatest biathlete of all time, led the way and we have had many other great biathletes since then. Right now though, after Ole Einar and also Emil Hegle Svendsen retired in recent years, our team on the men's side is weaker than in previous years/incarnations and the French do have a better team overall. We don't have any upcoming 'stars' either as I see it so I don't think Norway will be dominant in men's biathlon in the years to come though the Bø-brothers will be up there with the best from France, Russia, Germany etc. If we look back some years, Germany had phenomenal teams in both men's and women's biathlon and I think they will further improve from where they are now. The Russians will also be up there, Sweden, and perhaps also newer biathlon-nations like Poland and Switzerland, so excitement will be great in the years to come in both men's and women's biathlon I think.
Motivated by their home crowd Austria was throughout impressive, thats why it was tight until the last round. But in the end we were the most balanced team and the only one with 4 world-class athletes. Just like two years ago we have won 6 golden medals.. however, back then we won 4 events in NoCo and only two in Ski jumping and this time it was the other way around 
