PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — Norway has one of the smallest men’s Alpine teams on the World Cup circuit, and only about 2.5 million men in the country to build a team from. And yet the Norwegian skiers are dominating the Olympics again.

Aksel Lund Svindal and Kjetil Jansrud won gold and silver in the downhill here on Thursday. Norway has three racers in the top four of the current World Cup overall standings, and they are among the favorites to take home more Olympic hardware before these Games are through.

In an era in which every world-class athlete seems fixated on personal brand-building and competing for the most Facebook likes and Twitter followers, the Norwegians embrace an altogether different approach to success. It is a contrarian mix of humility, egalitarianism and basic respect — plus sharing an absurd amount of meals over the course of a schedule that has them spending roughly 250 days together every year.

They get along so well and feel so strongly about collegiality that they even share beds sometimes.

“We believe there is no good explanation or justification for why you have to be a jerk to be a good athlete,” Jansrud, the defending Olympic super-G champion, said. “So we just won’t have that kind of thing on our team. You have to get along with everyone.”