Short Track Speed Skating

[JockCartier 311]

The short track program has sure became a machine over the last decade. Incredible depth. Especially nice seeing so many good skaters on the women's side after a couple decades of being so far behind the likes of China and Korea. Which is good, cause now there are a lot of countries that are producing really good skaters now

[JockCartier 311]

On 10/31/2024 at 2:22 PM, intoronto said:

Last time SLC cancelled, Toronto stepped in. Sadly not this time

Probably a bit too late this time around. ISU didn't officially pull the plug until Oct 25th, and they were still pushing tickets three weeks ago, so it probably was a last minute decision. 

Weird they didn't have an old set of padded board, but whatever. I guess it's easy in Montreal as they're prime tenant in that arena and it doesn't get used for much else

[Josh 13,628]

3 hours ago, JockCartier said:

The short track program has sure became a machine over the last decade. Incredible depth. Especially nice seeing so many good skaters on the women's side after a couple decades of being so far behind the likes of China and Korea. Which is good, cause now there are a lot of countries that are producing really good skaters now

Yeah off the top of my head, this is how many medal chances we have in short track for the next Olympics if it was to be held today

 

Men’s 500m - Dandjinou, Dubois, Pierre-Gilles

Men’s 1000m - Dandjinou, Dubois

Men’s 1500m - Dandjinou, Dubois, Dion

Men’s 5000m Relay

Women’s 500m - Kim Boutin
Women’s 1000m - Kim Boutin

Women’s 1500m - Kim Boutin

Women’s 3000m Relay

 

Brunelle could possibly develop before then and get herself in the mix, as a recent multiple World Junior Champion, and Sarault too if she can regain her form prior to injury.

[Topicmaster1010 6,614]

11 minutes ago, Josh said:

Yeah off the top of my head, this is how many medal chances we have in short track for the next Olympics if it was to be held today

 

Men’s 500m - Dandjinou, Dubois, Pierre-Gilles

Men’s 1000m - Dandjinou, Dubois

Men’s 1500m - Dandjinou, Dubois, Dion

Men’s 5000m Relay

Women’s 500m - Kim Boutin
Women’s 1000m - Kim Boutin

Women’s 1500m - Kim Boutin

Women’s 3000m Relay

 

Brunelle could possibly develop before then and get herself in the mix, as a recent multiple World Junior Champion, and Sarault too if she can regain her form prior to injury.

Mixed relay would be medal contenders too I would imagine

[JockCartier 311]

1 hour ago, Josh said:

Yeah off the top of my head, this is how many medal chances we have in short track for the next Olympics if it was to be held today

 

Men’s 500m - Dandjinou, Dubois, Pierre-Gilles

Men’s 1000m - Dandjinou, Dubois

Men’s 1500m - Dandjinou, Dubois, Dion

Men’s 5000m Relay

Women’s 500m - Kim Boutin
Women’s 1000m - Kim Boutin

Women’s 1500m - Kim Boutin

Women’s 3000m Relay

 

Brunelle could possibly develop before then and get herself in the mix, as a recent multiple World Junior Champion, and Sarault too if she can regain her form prior to injury.

Brunelle blasted the field on the penultimate leg of the relay Saturday, it was surprising. Other than Boutin it's a young team, but surprisingly deep. They aren't favourites in individual races, but they contend regularly, it's not surprising to see them get into semi's and finals anymore
 

Nice change from the '98 thru '14 cycles when we might have one strong women, and everyone else just kinda hung on for dear life

[Josh 13,628]

2 hours ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

Mixed relay would be medal contenders too I would imagine

Completely forgot that that was even an event 

 

Thanks for mentioning it 

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Canada wins gold in the mixed relay!!

[Josh 13,628]

Gold for William Dandjinou and bronze for Jordan Pierre-Gilles in the men’s 1000m!

Edited November 3, 2024 by Josh

[Josh 13,628]

Marc Gagnon doing wonders to our team. 

Montreal Stop #1: 3 golds, 1 silver, 2 bronze

Montreal Stop #2: 5 golds, 1 silver, 1 bronze

 

ETA; make that 6 GOLDS.

 

Obviously, I’ll wait until the non-Canadian stops before drawing to conclusions because home-crowd is usually a big factor but our short track program is looking good 

Edited December 6, 2024 by Josh

[Josh 13,628]

Gold for our men’s 5000m relay at week two of the Montreal WC!

 

Yet again, it wasn’t even close. Complete dominance 

Edited November 3, 2024 by Josh