Speed Skating at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

[NearPup 3,506]

Exciting race, but in the end I think this podium really represents who was the strongest this season.

[intoronto 6,475]

Canada wins its first female Speed Skating medal since 2010!

[Gianlu33 5,288]

I just check the stats, it's the first Olympic podium ever for an Italian in women's speed skating

[JoshMartini007 2,768]

Quite happy to wake up to this medal for Canada, I knew she had a decent chance and it's great that she capitalized it. I was hoping a little bit more from Blondin, hopefully she is better in the 5km and mass start

[orangeman 2,293]

38 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Quite happy to wake up to this medal for Canada, I knew she had a decent chance and it's great that she capitalized it. I was hoping a little bit more from Blondin, hopefully she is better in the 5km and mass start

I'm going to guess she was saving herself for those events, and team relay.  She didn't look like she was struggling, just disinterested.  

[NearPup 3,506]

1 minute ago, orangeman said:

I'm going to guess she was saving herself for those events, and team relay.  She didn't look like she was struggling, just disinterested.  

Ya, Blondin at her best isn't a medal threat at the 3000m. This really felt like a training run.

[hckošice 15,549]

Women's 3000m
Final Results

 

  Irene SCHOUTEN    

3:56.93 OR

 

  Francesca LOLLOBRIGIDA

3:58.06

 

  Isabelle WEIDEMANN 

3:58.64

Full Final Result HERE

[hckošice 15,549]

Sablikova

[Dennis 759]

Interesting draw for the men's 5.000m:

 

1.  Sven Kramer -  Viktor Hald Thorup
2.  Emery Lehman -  Felix Rijhnen
3.  Sergey Trofimov -  Hallgeir Engebråten
4.  Livio Wenger -  Ethan Cepuran
5.  Andrea Giovannini -  Patrick Roest
   
   -- Ice preparation --
    
6.  Jorrit Bergsma -  Seitaro Ichinohe
7.  Patrick Beckert -  Michele Malfatti
8.  Alexander Rumyantsev -  Davide Ghiotto
9.  Ruslan Zakharov -  Ted-Jan Bloemen
10.  Nils van der Poel -  Bart Swings

Strong first half and none of the top favorites skating against each other. 

[Sindo 1,657]

10 minutes ago, Dennis said:

Interesting draw for the men's 5.000m:

 

1.  Sven Kramer -  Viktor Hald Thorup
2.  Emery Lehman -  Felix Rijhnen
3.  Sergey Trofimov -  Hallgeir Engebråten
4.  Livio Wenger -  Ethan Cepuran
5.  Andrea Giovannini -  Patrick Roest
   
   -- Ice preparation --
    
6.  Jorrit Bergsma -  Seitaro Ichinohe
7.  Patrick Beckert -  Michele Malfatti
8.  Alexander Rumyantsev -  Davide Ghiotto
9.  Ruslan Zakharov -  Ted-Jan Bloemen
10.  Nils van der Poel -  Bart Swings

Strong first half and none of the top favorites skating against each other. 

Your predictions?