TollefsenFan
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Gods... What about Norway - Denmark. The mounain apes vs the half german alcoholics Thats what i call a real rivalry
Sweden: "The team we really don't want to lose to is Finland, the team we really want to beat is Canada."
I voted Finland-Russia. Finland-Sweden is like two brothers going at it, Finland-Russia is Winter War reloaded.
In general the sports rivarly for swedes looks like this:
Hockey - Finland
Skiing - Norway
Football - Denmark
However, beating Canada means more to me than beating Finland, since a win against Finland is just the way it's supposed to be.
So Im gonna go with this;
And I also want to add that if Norway were on the same level as the finns they would quickly grow to be a more important nation to beat than Finland.
Norway is the Nordic country that I both like and respect the most and hate to lose to the most.
The same goes with Football and Athletics. But we never seem to play against Norway in Football and they aren't at the same level in Athletics to make "Finnkampen" interesting.
FIN-SWE and FIN-RUS equally fierce for me.
Objectively it's clearly CAN-RUS.
In football Finland - Azerbaidjan.
but haha you need to explain the azerbaidjan comment!
I'll just quote what I wrote in the gold medal game-thread:
Sweden: "The team we really don't want to lose to is Finland, the team we really want to beat is Canada."
I don't think the Sweden/Canada-rivalry can beat Sweden/Finland, Canada/Russia or US/Canada, but it's evident that it's on the rise.