Speed Skating ISU World Cup 2021 - 2022

[dcro 10,210]

The final Dutch pair of M 1500 totally botched the final lane change. Both slowed down.

 

Nuis placed 6th, Krol 16th (!!). What a terrible season starter for the Oranje.

[dcro 10,210]

Ah, yes, the NBC. Erin Jackson of course has to be dumped in the first black woman category and be defined by it.

 

https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2021/11/12/erin-jackson-speed-skating-world-cup/

[Jan Linha 597]

What the hell happened with the Men's Mass Start? It seemed to be a pretty big mess as nobody exactly knew how many laps who still has to go ..... Seems first 3 have been awarded but about the rest, we got no clue as the results haven't come up yet

 

[heywoodu 16,004]

2 hours ago, Jan Linha said:

What the hell happened with the Men's Mass Start? It seemed to be a pretty big mess as nobody exactly knew how many laps who still has to go ..... Seems first 3 have been awarded but about the rest, we got no clue as the results haven't come up yet

 

This is the farce that is the mass start: half the time nobody, including the riders, has a clue what the fuck is happening. Not even the clear winner knew he'd won until a while after the finish.

 

The riders don't know what's going on.

The referees have no clue what to do and don't even follow their own rules (it was specifically stated that any rider who is lapped, will be out of the race from that moment on...Japanese dude lapped half the field and nobody was pulled out).

Commentators barely follow what's happening.

 

But it's hip and urban version of the marathon, for sprinters, so it's Olympic. Because short.

[NearPup 3,496]

The mass start could be a lot less bad if they just removed the stupid point system.

[Olympian1010 8,230]

40 minutes ago, NearPup said:

The mass start could be a lot less bad if they just removed the stupid point system.

Or even just mirror it to one of the roller speed skating events if that’s the what their trying to replicate. The elimination and points formats World Skate uses are such much better than the awful format used by the ISU.

[Jan Linha 597]

6 hours ago, heywoodu said:

This is the farce that is the mass start: half the time nobody, including the riders, has a clue what the fuck is happening. Not even the clear winner knew he'd won until a while after the finish.

 

The riders don't know what's going on.

The referees have no clue what to do and don't even follow their own rules (it was specifically stated that any rider who is lapped, will be out of the race from that moment on...Japanese dude lapped half the field and nobody was pulled out).

Commentators barely follow what's happening.

 

But it's hip and urban version of the marathon, for sprinters, so it's Olympic. Because short.

Well, I kinda did not get why the last four got DSQ. They all have finishing time but for some reason got DSQ which means recieving 0 points in the WC ranking compared to the athletes recieving many points but not making it to the final. Which is quite unfair I think. 

[Vic Liu 1,691]

Anyone knows why China women team pursuit got DQ? 

[intoronto 6,408]

No  at WC 2? https://live.isuresults.eu/events/2022_NOR_0001/competitors

[NearPup 3,496]

On 11/18/2021 at 9:18 AM, intoronto said:

No  at WC 2? https://live.isuresults.eu/events/2022_NOR_0001/competitors

Actually makes a lot of sense. There isn't a mass start (the event is most likely to qualify in) and their best path to qualifying for another individual event is through the time ranking. So it's probably better to get to North America a week early and acclimate.