Speed Skating at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

[Swewi 384]

29 minutes ago, Belle said:

Van Der Poel is talking about to retire. He is not sure he will skating next season. 

Hope that he Will not but the way he train I am pretty sure no one can do for too many years!

[Quaker2001 251]

Just watched the race.  My goodness was that pure domination.  And that's not easy to set a world record on ice like that

[heywoodu 15,147]

Awesome interview with the true Emperor of Japan on Dutch TV, Hiroyasu Shimizu  

 

His English wasn't that fantastic, but his enthousiasm definitely was!

 

"What do you think of Morishige today?"

"Yes! This weekend....very...start, and the corner." 

 

 

[heywoodu 15,147]

21 hours ago, Swewi said:

Hope that he Will not but the way he train I am pretty sure no one can do for too many years!

Which is also why he has been saying for quite a while now that Beijing 2022 might be his last big thing in skating, because there are simply many more adventures in life

 

Like he said: "It's like climbing a mountain. You get to the top, but once you get there and you see the view is cool, you see another mountain in the distance and start wondering what the view would be from that one."

[heywoodu 15,147]

Broken ice machine  

[Ted 141]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Broken ice machine  

And your predictions for the men's 500 are...?

[heywoodu 15,147]

1 minute ago, Ted said:

And your predictions for the men's 500 are...?

Impossible  

 

Without exaggerating, I think there really are at least 15 skaters with somewhat of a realistic gold medal chance. Some more than others, obviously, but yeah...it is incredibly open.

[NearPup 3,052]

7 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Broken ice machine  

I'm getting nostalgia from Vancouver 2010

[heywoodu 15,147]

7 minutes ago, NearPup said:

I'm getting nostalgia from Vancouver 2010

When the 500m was still fair instead of this one race bullshit

[Monzanator 4,504]

Gao 34,32 OR. That could be a Top 5 result?