Speed Skating at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

[heywoodu 15,145]

Wow, Wüst

 

Of all performances I've seen in speed skating during the years, this ranks very, very high. And the outburst of emotion after the race was over and she was in interview mode was heartbreaking and beautiful, she basically broke as soon as Paulien van Deutekom was mentioned (her best friend and a former speed skating world champion, same generation, who died three years ago after a short illness).

[NearPup 3,052]

I feel like I should have learned to stop doubting that Wüst would win these kind of races at some point.

[hckošice 14,835]

Nice race Even me as complete Speed Skating illiterate I was never in doubt Wust will win this, what a performance this was. Congrats &

 

 

[hckošice 14,835]

Women's 1500m
Final Results

 

  Ireen WUST    

1:53.28 OR

 

  Miho TAKAGI  

1:53.72

 

  Antoinette DE JONG 

1:54.82

Full Final Result HERE

[Jinzha 702]

3 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Wow, Wüst

 

Of all performances I've seen in speed skating during the years, this ranks very, very high. And the outburst of emotion after the race was over and she was in interview mode was heartbreaking and beautiful, she basically broke as soon as Paulien van Deutekom was mentioned (her best friend and a former speed skating world champion, same generation, who died three years ago after a short illness).

Agree completely! I felt immediately after Wüst's race that we witnessed Dutch sports history right there.

[Dennis 712]

Tomorrow we have the men's 1.500m starting two hours later than the other races so far. This will probably be one of the most competitive distances with about 8 realistic favorites for the medals and even more outsiders. My prediction:

 

1.  Thomas Krol
2.  Joey Mantia
3.  Ning Zhongyan
4.  Kim Min-Seok
5.  Kjeld Nuis
    
6.  Connor Howe
7.  Seitaro Ichinohe
8.  Allan Dahl Johansson
9.  Takuro Oda
10.  Peder Kongshaug
     
11.  Bart Swings
12.  Kristian Ulekleiv
13. Daniil Aldoshkin 
14.  Emery Lehman
15. Sergey Trofimov 
     
16.  Mathias Vosté
17.  Dmitry Morozov
18.  Cornelius Kersten
19.  Wang Haotian
20.  Casey Dawson
     
21.  Tyson Langelaar
22.  Alessio Trentini
23.  Marcel Bosker
24.  Lian Ziwen
25.  Park Seong-Hyeon
     
26. Peter Michael
27.  Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu
28.  Haralds Silovs
29.  Ruslan Zakharov

 

 

[thepharoah 2,405]

Thomas Krol was just flying WOW , new OR 

[thepharoah 2,405]

well it didn't last too long just some seconds , Nuis comes big with anothr OR 

[Monzanator 4,503]

Kjeld Nuis doing a Wust repeat. Don't count the has-been out!

 

Another flop with Mantia

[Federer91 2,797]

And people were saying that NED are not that big of a favorite this year. Seems like any other WOG that i have watched