Speed Skating at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

[NearPup 4,182]

Swings deserves this so much, esp after doing all the work.

[orangeman 2,876]

Wow, what a finish!

[heywoodu 16,461]

First Belgian Winter Olympic gold in 74 years

[Triplecast 215]

 first Olympic Winter Ganes gold medal since 1948.

 

Micheline Lannoy, 97 years young, now lives in Canada, the oldest living Olympic Winter Ganes gold medalist, I think.

[NearPup 4,182]

I don’t think  Kramer intimidated very many skaters.

 

Jokes aside, hats off to Kramer for an unbelievable career.

[dcro 10,211]

Their only previous gold is covered here (top of the video).

 

[Fly_like_a_don 1,162]

I think Speed Skating can have separate mass start and points race and maybe leave 1500m . Two short distance(500,1000) , 1 pursuit, 2 long distances then 1 mass start and 1 points race. I also don't mind if 1 of the long distance events is left off instead of 1500m. 

[NearPup 4,182]

Lee Seung-hoon also wins his sixth career medal. Chung Jae-won wins an individual medal here after serving as a domestique in the mass start for Lee four years ago.

[NearPup 4,182]

2 minutes ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

I think Speed Skating can have separate mass start and points race and maybe leave 1500m . Two short distance(500,1000) , 1 pursuit, 2 long distances then 1 mass start and 1 points race. I also don't mind if 1 of the long distance events is left off instead of 1500m. 

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I don't mind the mass start (they need to get rid of the points tho), and I think the team events are great (bring in the team sprint for 2026!), but the essence of speed skating is skating against the clock. None of the new events should come at the expense of these time trials.

 

I know short track has trialled both a point race format and a Madison format, maybe that would be a better place for a proper speed skating points race.

[Fly_like_a_don 1,162]

3 minutes ago, NearPup said:

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No issues but I like it. Instead of having a points race like in mass start it's better to have a separate points race. Maximum long track events should be mass start format with quarters semis and finals (no sprints though) really nice to watch.