Speed Skating ISU Single Distances World Championships 2019

[heywoodu 16,004]

4 hours ago, dcro said:

@heywoodu What's up with these "talentNED" suits?

 

Pretentious as hell.

TalentNED is just some talent development programme in sports and business (or something), which happened to get together with a speed skating team needing a sponsor  

 

Anyway it's a commercial team, not the slogan of the Dutch or something  

[heywoodu 16,004]

Also: gold for Pedersen/Norway in a long distance after 16 billion years

[phelps 8,285]

please, can someone explain to me the sense of the so-called Team Sprint? (which basically has nothing to do with real sprint performances, except for the first lap/skater)

 

meanwhile, looking at the more traditional races, I'm very disappointed by today's performance by Francesca Lollobrigida...she started definitely too quick and she was already dead after 3 laps...

she did show a lot of progress in the "classic" distances this year, but once again she missed out when it mattered most...

 

among the boys, pretty average result for the Italian team...more or less it all went according to the preview...maybe Ghiotto was even a bit better than expected...let's see if he can get something big in "his" 10000m...

[heywoodu 16,004]

Just now, phelps said:

please, can someone explain to me the sense of the so-called Team Sprint? (which basically has nothing to do with real sprint performances, except for the first lap/skater)

That's not true, the second lap is still definitely a sprinter  (500m and 1000m are the sprint distances)

[heywoodu 16,004]

By the way, I can't stress enough how absolutely epic Pedersen's race was. That was utterly insane and one of the best pieces of skating I've ever seen.

[phelps 8,285]

5 minuti fa, heywoodu ha scritto:

That's not true, the second lap is still definitely a sprinter  (500m and 1000m are the sprint distances)

 

let's say it for the "long" sprinters...I don't think a pure 500m specialist can survive the second lap...

 

however, it's the entire race that doesn't have a lot of sense to me (p.s. don't tell me of the track cycling Team Sprint event)...

[heywoodu 16,004]

10 minutes ago, phelps said:

 

let's say it for the "long" sprinters...I don't think a pure 500m specialist can survive the second lap...

 

however, it's the entire race that doesn't have a lot of sense to me (p.s. don't tell me of the track cycling Team Sprint event)...

Which is why a pure 500m specialist will be the first position in the team, but that doesn't change that 1000m is still considered a sprint  

 

I don't feel too bad or good about the event, kinda neutral about it. Better than the baby mass start ISU put on the Olympic program  

[phelps 8,285]

17 minuti fa, heywoodu ha scritto:

Which is why a pure 500m specialist will be the first position in the team, but that doesn't change that 1000m is still considered a sprint  

 

I don't feel too bad or good about the event, kinda neutral about it. Better than the baby mass start ISU put on the Olympic program  

 

OK, it's obvious that you like winning easy with that...

[heywoodu 16,004]

9 minutes ago, phelps said:

 

OK, it's obvious that you like winning easy with that...

What?  

[Dennis 759]

Draw 500m ladies:

1.  Letitia de Jong -  Qishi Li
2.  Yekaterina Aydova -  Gabriele Hirschbichler 
3.  Kaja Ziomek -  Ruining Tian
4.  Heather Mclean -  Kaylin Irvine
5.  Hege Bøkko -  Erin Jackson
6.  Marsha Hudey -  Janine Smit
7.  Jingzhu Jin -  Jutta Leerdam
8.  Maki Tsuji -  Konami Soga
9.  Hyun-Yung Kim -  Min Sun Kim
10.  Brittany Bowe -  Vanessa Herzog
11.  Angelina Golikova -  Daria Kachanova
12.  Olga Fatkulina -  Nao Kodaira

Draw not as stacked with all the medal favorites in the last three pairs and some outsiders in pair 7, 8 and 9.

 

Draw 500m men:

1.  Piotr Michalski -  Ronald Mulder
2.  Christopher Fiola -  Henrik Fagerli Rukke
3.  David Bosa -  Tingyu Gao
4.  Artur Nogal -  Artur Was
5.  Gilmore Junio -  Tae-Yun Kim
6.  Jan Smeekens -  Bjørn Magnussen
7.  Dai Dai Ntab -  Min Kyu Cha
8.  Ruslan Murashov -  Jun-Ho Kim
9.  Laurent Dubreuil -  Nico Ihle
10.  Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen -  Viktor Mushtakov
11.  Yuma Murakami -  Tatsuya Shinhama
12.  Pavel Kulizhnikov -  Tsubasa Hasegawa

Much more exciting to me with a number of outsiders in the early pairs and the favorites in the last pairs.

 

With the team pursuits also being skated today, I expect a lot of medals for