Short Track Speed Skating at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

[heywoodu 16,431]

1 hour ago, Jan Linha said:

Chinese commentators spoke about one rule for relays .... It says if you amongst first 2 nations and you have an accidental/innocent fall , according to the rules you should be advanced to the next round. But if you are 3rd or 4th at the time of the fall - not ...... I am not an expert in short track, but ...... 😅😅😅😅😅

Not if it's really just nothing but bad luck without any intent anywhere whatsoever  

 

Can't say judges have been favouring China this event (like they generally and somewhat surprisingly don't really favour home nations in shorttrack), but this one was...fishy, to say the least.

[phelps 8,637]

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Not if it's really just nothing but bad luck without any intent anywhere whatsoever  

 

Can't say judges have been favouring China this event (like they generally and somewhat surprisingly don't really favour home nations in shorttrack), but this one was...fishy, to say the least.

no, Chinese commentators are right (also the Italian commentator -Michele Antonioli, former world champion and Olympic medallist- said immediately that, well before the judges announced their decision)...

 

this time China didn't have a particularly favourable treatment...

[phelps 8,637]

9 hours ago, Vic Liu said:

The yellow card is with him for the whole season. If he gets another yellow card, he will be suspended for the whole season.

no, it's "only" the whole tournament...

 

the whole season would be a little too much...

 

p.s. and yes, Knegt got a yellow card, too...

[phelps 8,637]

7 hours ago, hckošice said:

If all Chinese 4 opponents in the A final will be DSQ and you win the B Final you will automatically have silver, right ?

yes 

[phelps 8,637]

7 hours ago, Monzanator said:

 

Yes, obviously. I believe this (Final B winner getting a medal) happened once with one of the relays few years ago but can't be sure.

Pyeongchang 2018...the Dutch women got the bronze medal by winning the B final because of 2 disqualifications in the A final...

[phelps 8,637]

4 hours ago, Jan Linha said:

Chinese commentators spoke about one rule for relays .... It says if you amongst first 2 nations and you have an accidental/innocent fall , according to the rules you should be advanced to the next round. But if you are 3rd or 4th at the time of the fall - not ...... I am not an expert in short track, but ...... 😅😅😅😅😅

yes, that's the rule (and it's the same in the individual races)...

in order to be advanced directly by the judges to the following round, an athlete must be already in a directly qualifying position (which means they have to be in the top 2 places if there are 2 slots to qualify or 3 if there are 3 and so on)...otherwise you can yourself just unlucky...

[mester 2]

52 minutes ago, phelps said:

yes, that's the rule (and it's the same in the individual races)...

in order to be advanced directly by the judges to the following round, an athlete must be already in a directly qualifying position (which means they have to be in the top 2 places if there are 2 slots to qualify or 3 if there are 3 and so on)...otherwise you can yourself just unlucky...

So only goal is fast start and then "dive", and you are in final?

[NearPup 4,135]

5 hours ago, mester said:

So only goal is fast start and then "dive", and you are in final?

It's hard (and very dangerous) to fake an accidental clash of blades.

[dcro 10,210]

Our team is training with Belgium, so any medal for them is great for us.

 

But then again, is Desmet even a part of the Belgian team these days?

[Dunadan 1,103]

11 minutes ago, dcro said:

But then again, is Desmet even a part of the Belgian team these days?

Commentators here said she's not, and after the race she went to the Dutch coach, who also said and gestured to the camera that they got first and third.