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Speed Skating at the Winter Olympic Games 2018


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22 minutes ago, dcro said:

No Antoinette in 5000m :yikes::( At least Annouk made it...

 

What's going to happen with 500m? Ter Mors? She only finished 9th though.

We'll know tomorrow, the team will be announced at 12:00. 

 

I'm curious how the Verbij/1000m situation is going to be solved. The most likely seems that he's given the spot with Thomas Krol as reserve, in case Verbij isn't healed in time.

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16 minutes ago, dcro said:

No Antoinette in 5000m :yikes::( At least Annouk made it...

 

What's going to happen with 500m? Ter Mors? She only finished 9th though.

 

Before the tournament, Jorien said she wouldn't skate the 500m if she would qualify for all distances, as she is also skating the 1.500m (and maybe the team pursuit) on the short track. Maybe now that she has not qualified on the 1.500m on the long track, she might consider skating the 500m anyways. However, the 500m is one day after the 1.500m shorttrack, the day before the qualifications of the team pursuit on the long track and two days before the team pursuit on the short track.

 

If not, Lotte van Beek is the next on the list, I guess (13th on the 500m this week). She also skated the 500m in Sochi, as not enough 500m specialists qualified due to the matrix back then either. However, as said, the 500m is the day before the team pursuit. As Jorien seems to be out of shape, she might be considered to join the team pursuit team as well as she was also part of the team in Sochi. 

 

Guess we'll have to wait to find out what will happen.

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As expected, Verbij gets the 1000m spot, Thomas Krol misses out. And no Olympics for Letitia de Jong, as now confirmed. 

 

Dutch men's team (the last line is about the team pursuit):

 

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Dutch women's team:

 

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Oh and somewhat surprisingly, if Verbij isn't healed in time, not Krol, but Otterspeer will be added to the team. 

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3 hours ago, heywoodu said:

As expected, Verbij gets the 1000m spot, Thomas Krol misses out. And no Olympics for Letitia de Jong, as now confirmed. 

 

Dutch men's team (the last line is about the team pursuit):

 

AYbPVNb.png

 

Dutch women's team:

 

bSRIg6h.png

 

 

Why are they using these 80s arcade style graphics? :p

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2 hours ago, Dennis said:

Do you have any idea why that is?

No idea. It's not like Otterspeer has a bigger medal chance than Krol...I mean, both are outsiders, but not much more. Then again, it's about the 1000m only and there Otterspeer might have a bit better chance. But Krol beat him fair and square.. 

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31 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Why are they using these 80s arcade style graphics? :p

Because it's Teletext, not much room for improvement apart from more colours, but luckily Dutch NOS doesn't use a million colours like they do on Belgian or German (or Dutch commercial) TV :p 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext

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