Short Track Speed Skating at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

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4 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

Thank you for broadening my horizons 

 

I'll broaden it even more - the second girl who did this shoot (Marta Wojcik) later married Viktor Knoch

 

https://elblogdelwalo.blogspot.com/2014/08/marta-wojcik-aida-bella-polonia-nov-2013.html?zx=9806508f62a09a40

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Just now, rybak said:

My TV somehow stopped working  did Kazakhstan finished with medal here on mens race?

Sadly no

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Just now, rybak said:

My TV somehow stopped working  did Kazakhstan finished with medal here on mens race?

 

And congrats Hungary

Nope. 4th place. The Italian fell down.

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Nice to see an individual gold medal for one of the Liu brothers. Well deserved.

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10 minutes ago, Vektor said:

I didn't want to jinx it before the final by saying that Shaoang almost never loses from lane 1. 

 

1 gold and 2 bronze medals, truly an amazing Winter Games for us. 

Hopefully will be able to develop a competitive short track team after the Liu brothers retire. I'd imagine they have increased the profile of the sport in Hungary quite a bit.

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Women's 3000m Team Relay
Final Results

 

Netherlands

Suzanne Schulting

Selma Poutsma

Xandra Velzeboer

Yara van Kerkhof

4:03.409 OR

 

South Korea

Seo Whi-Min

Choi Min-Jeong

Kim A-Lang

Lee Yu-Bin

4:03.627

 

China

Han Yutong

Qu Chunyu

Zhang Chutong

Fan Kexin

Zhang Yuting

4:03.863

 

Full Final Result HERE

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During today's short track finals I saw on TV that there was an Italian guy in the stands with writing on the huge paper card:

 

"FORZA RE DI POLONIA CONQUISTA L'ORIENTE!"

 

@phelps @Dunadan @Gianlu33 what was it? what does it really mean?

 

Because I kind of think that... I sort of lost it in translation.

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I watched this live (did not see the 2018 gold live and after the other Liu being sort of robbed in the 1000m I promised I will stop watching short track), but finally he did!

As it is said "Fate plays for a draw" - 1 gold (sort of) taken away, 1 gold won.

And few days before the OG it wasnt even sure that Liu Shaoang can compete - now he goes home with 1 gold and 2 bronze...

 

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5 minutes ago, rafalgorka said:

During today's short track finals I saw on TV that there was an Italian guy in the stands with writing on the huge paper card:

 

"FORZA RE DI POLONIA CONQUISTA L'ORIENTE!"

 

@phelps @Dunadan @Gianlu33 what was it? what does it really mean?

 

Because I kind of think that... I sort of lost it in translation.

The first part means "Go, king of Poland" - not sure who they refer to (I assume its a Polish athlete)

And the last is something like "take over the Orient" or "capture the Orient" - i.e. "take Beijing by storm" meaning perform exceptionally well

I am not native Italian speaker just trying to find out by logic.

Maybe native Italian speakers can add something which was lost to me

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Poland - The Oriental Conqueror?