Speed Skating at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

[Monzanator 4,503]

men also losing in SF

[NearPup 3,051]

Just now, Monzanator said:

men also losing in SF

The surprise is less that the men lost their SF, but rather that they qualified for the SF in the first place :P

[Monzanator 4,503]

1 minute ago, orangeman said:

It's unfortunate that we always have to question an unexpected good result from Russian athletes, but they (and the IOC along with other governing bodies) have done it to themselves.  

I'm pretty sure this is maybe a topic in USA, Canada & Great Britain but most of the world has moved on already. There is zero chance every Russian athlete uses doping anyway but some nations can't decide which is the bigger evil China or Russia. Some people really need that Cold War scenario again but it's not coming back. EU & USA doing absolutely nothing when Russia annexed Crimea only proves that point.

[heywoodu 15,141]

7 minutes ago, NearPup said:

and putting down the two fastest men's team pursuit times ever in the SF O.o

In the Olympics, I assume?

[NearPup 3,051]

13 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I think it was them who started that two years ago or so, after all  

Ya, that's why he called it that (it wasn't because happened to be using it in the first SF :P )

  

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

In the Olympics, I assume?

 

That is what I *meant* to write but not what I did write.

[orangeman 1,989]

4 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

I'm pretty sure this is maybe a topic in USA, Canada & Great Britain but most of the world has moved on already. There is zero chance every Russian athlete uses doping anyway but some nations can't decide which is the bigger evil China or Russia. Some people really need that Cold War scenario again but it's not coming back. EU & USA doing absolutely nothing when Russia annexed Crimea only proves that point.

Well, I live in China and am surrounded by a dozen or so nationalities of all kinds.  Our chat group's biggest meme is Russian dopers at the Olympics.  

[Monzanator 4,503]

2 minutes ago, orangeman said:

Well, I live in China and am surrounded by a dozen or so nationalities of all kinds.  Our chat group's biggest meme is Russian dopers at the Olympics.  

Yeah, welcome to 21st century, having a best meme about Russians ain't gonna be good enough to stop them

[NearPup 3,051]

Interestingly enough both and have relatively recent short track transplant who won relay medals in Sochi on their team (Ruslan Zakharov and Valérie Maltais).

[Monzanator 4,503]

wins bronze and no joy at all.

[Monzanator 4,503]

Crash for Japan! Weidemann pushed Canada like crazy!!!

 

Gold for