I admire your cunning plan! One of the most infuriating things about following skiing is the tendency of Norwegian skiers to come from farms in the middle of nowhere so that I tend to find their interviews incomprehensible, whereas when the British skiers are interviewed in Norwegian of course they speak in the standard-learned-by-foreigners way so they're far easier to follow even though they are very fluent.

Congratulations on your vindication :-)