Speed Skating at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

[JoshMartini007 2,538]

Seems like Canada is having one of those "no golds allowed" Olympics

 

We are tied with Austria and Norway with 12 medals, but are 12th on the medal table

[Edvid 22]

Of all the (numerous) Olympic records set in SLC 20 years ago, there's essentially just the men's 1000m left now.* Has anyone ever gone sub-1:07.18 on a lowland rink?

 

[* Men's 500m x 2 OR narrowly survived Sochi before the 500m replaced it]

[hckošice 14,836]

Women's 5000m
Final Results

 

  Irene SCHOUTEN

6:43.51 OR

 

  Isabelle WEIDEMANN

6:48.18

 

  Martina SABLIKOVA

6:50.09

Full Final Result HERE

[phelps 7,678]

6 hours ago, Edvid said:

Of all the (numerous) Olympic records set in SLC 20 years ago, there's essentially just the men's 1000m left now.* Has anyone ever gone sub-1:07.18 on a lowland rink?

 

[* Men's 500m x 2 OR narrowly survived Sochi before the 500m replaced it]

yes, Heerenveen's track record is 1.07.09 (by Pavel Kulizhnikov in 2020)

[dcro 10,210]

Finally caught up with speed skating.  Men's 1500 m race was a definite highlight for me so far.

 

Disappointed that old records are getting broken by hilarious margins. That just continues the recent trend where all WRs and ORs must be held by active athletes. At any cost. But for no particular reason.

 

[dcro 10,210]

On 2/8/2022 at 12:46 PM, Dennis said:

The Americans are disappointing again. Dawson has an excuse as he only arrived in Beijing this morning, but skaters like Bowe and Mantia are underperforming. 
 

Not the first time this happens at the Olympics. 

I guess their only real hope is Jackson, provided she stays immune to this American flopping syndrome.

[heywoodu 15,145]

1 hour ago, dcro said:

Finally caught up with speed skating.  Men's 1500 m race was a definite highlight for me so far.

 

Disappointed that old records are getting broken by hilarious margins. That just continues the recent trend where all WRs and ORs must be held by active athletes. At any cost. But for no particular reason.

 

It's more hilarious to still have 2002 OR's, to be fair  Not that anyone really cares about OR's, I assume.

[heywoodu 15,145]

Meanwhile, day of days as far as I'm concerned today, only a little more than an hour to go  

 

Let's see if Van der Poel does something with his 'anger' after coming up with 'corruption' and 'the biggest scandal in the sport' (something with the Dutch influencing the ice, which isn't really true, but he probably wanted some attention, so there you go  ). It's a speed skating 'scandal' so obviously it made newspaper covers here  

[Ted 141]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Meanwhile, day of days as far as I'm concerned today, only a little more than an hour to go  

Your predictions, sir?

[dcro 10,210]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

It's more hilarious to still have 2002 OR's, to be fair  Not that anyone really cares about OR's, I assume.

OBS and ESP commentators are basically fawning over them.