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vor 9 Stunden schrieb Dennis:

Exactly, another 30-year old. Which is fine, if that 30-year old is world class, but 4:12 in Inzell isn't world class at all. And looking at the results, there are no youngsters coming through.

It's always a bad sign when a country is dominant in a sport that is mostly about endurance. Germany used to dominate when the GDR methods were still around.

Germany also used to be dominant in men's cross-country skiing, but thank god those times are over. Noone should ruin his/her health for some performances that noone will care about anymore in a year or so. Now it's much more difficult to dope systematically in Germany. Other countries like GB (cycling), Norway (cross-country) or the Netherlands (speed skating, cycling) seem to be willing to do everything if it helps their chances. It's just sad that most of the people in those countries aren't even remotely objective when it comes to judging how realistic it is that their own athletes are clean. You also have to ask yourself how happy those athlete will be once they retire. If you are willing to risk your life just to be able to say "I am the best in random sport XY", then how are you ever supposed to be happy with yourself once you have to retire and live a real life where you can't just cheat your way to success?

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.
 

 

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Today, :BRA Larissa Paes skated a new national record on the 1.000m women. As I love stats, I looked up which national records have been improved this season so far as summarized below. With the world allround championships in Calgary and the world cup final in Salt Lake City this year, I expect a lot more national records to be improved during the later stages of the season.

 

500m women

Victoria Rodriguez :ARG 39,60 - 27-okt-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

Ainoa Carreno :ESP 42,70 - 25-nov-18 - Tomaszów-Mazowiecki (POL)

Larissa Paes :BRA 45,28 - 24-nov-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

Andrea Cabrera :GUA 1.12,28 - 17-nov-18 - Groningen (NED)

 

1.000m women

Larissa Paes :BRA 1.30,08 - 1-dec-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

 

1.500m women

Ellia Smeding :GBR 2.04,38 - 5-nov-18 - Heerenveen (NED)

Valentina Espinosa :ARG 2.06,94 - 24-nov-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

Larissa Paes :BRA 2.20,74 - 24-nov-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

 

3.000m women

Valentina Espinosa :ARG 4.29,83 - 15-sep-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

 

500m men

Marten Liiv :EST 35,71 - 17-nov-18 - Obihiro (JPN)

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