Speed Skating at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

[Monzanator 4,888]

Schouten wins! Great skate by Blondin for silver though. Lollobrigida bronze.

[NearPup 3,700]

Disappointing Olympics in speed skating for

[Dennis 804]

SCHOUTEN! What a deserved winner.
 

Queen of the speed skating tournament with 3 golden and 1 bronze medal. 

[orangeman 2,435]

4 minutes ago, NearPup said:

Disappointing Olympics in speed skating for

It's not even top 5 disappointing sports for Canada at these Olympics.  

[heywoodu 16,334]

8 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

This is basically madison or points race from track cycling on ice

With the difference being that the sprints make literally no possible difference in the medal positions.

[NearPup 3,700]

1 minute ago, orangeman said:

It's not even top 5 disappointing sports for Canada at these Olympics.  

As a unit it's disappointing. Canada won four events they were favoured to win, lost events they were favoured to win and didn't win anything where they weren't the favourite.

[hckošice 16,090]

Holly mother of Jesus ! That was one of a last lap from Schouten ! what a speeeeeeeeeeed

 

once again, any single reason why dutch don´t play hockey ? the normal one I mean

[NearPup 3,700]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

With the difference being that the sprints make literally no possible difference in the medal positions.

Hey now, every kid dreams of finishing sixth at the Olympics.

[NearPup 3,700]

Just now, hckošice said:

Holly mother of Jesus ! That was one of a last lap from Schouten ! what a speeeeeeeeeeed

 

once again, any single reason why dutch don´t play hockey ? the normal one I mean

It's a gesture of goodwill towards

[Olympian1010 8,276]

13 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

This is basically madison or points race from track cycling on ice

Except those still have better formats. You can actually go off the front or contest intermediate sprints and win the race still.