Short Track Speed Skating at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

[Gianlu33 5,374]

2 hours 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.

Let's go king of Poland, capture the East. I think that it's a sort of incitement for Sighel

[Grassmarket 4,108]

One thing I noticed today. Although we very often see 4-person heats, semis, & even B Finals ending with 2 Pens & 2 Finishers, has that ever happened in an Olympic final?  Even in the Bradbury fInal, the others got up & finished. Or does the judges’ relentless Batman-like pursuit of Absolute Justice fall short of making the sport look stupid?

[JoshMartini007 2,805]

27 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

One thing I noticed today. Although we very often see 4-person heats, semis, & even B Finals ending with 2 Pens & 2 Finishers, has that ever happened in an Olympic final?  Even in the Bradbury fInal, the others got up & finished. Or does the judges’ relentless Batman-like pursuit of Absolute Justice fall short of making the sport look stupid?

 

It happened in 2018 in the women's relay. Funny enough, bronze medalist Netherlands set a world record in the B Final.

[phelps 8,403]

6 hours ago, Monzanator said:

Official site has the results back on and nothing changed so I have no idea what the review was about?

 

6 hours ago, NearPup said:

Only thing I can think of is confusion about how to rank the athlete who had a DNF in the A final (i.e. whether to rank him above or bellow the athletes from the B final). DNFs are very rare in short track.

or there might be some kind of protest by a team (which was then rejected)...

[JoshMartini007 2,805]

Yeah, I imagine "what to do with a DNF" must be in the rule book so the confusion wouldn't have taken that long. A protest was more likely.

[Monzanator 4,828]

Velzeboer beat Sarault for the 1500m Final A spot by 0,013

[Monzanator 4,828]

down in the men'a relay final

[orangeman 2,326]

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Monzanator 4,828]

Canada wins! Korea silver... dead heat between Italy & ROC for bronze. But will anyone get DSQ for the China fall?

[Monzanator 4,828]

Italy wins bronze by 0,009!

 

China fell on his own. No drama.