Short Track Speed Skating ISU World Championships 2019

[Kirkpatrick 144]

Korea takes this one too.

[heywoodu 16,458]

Schulting to the 500m final (with Van Ruijven), Choi not even in the B-final  

[Kirkpatrick 144]

Great gold for Valcepina from Italy!

 

Please no PEN, please no PEN.

[heywoodu 16,458]

So, women's 500m final. At the finish with Van Ruijven, Valcepina did EXACTLY the same Schulting did in her 1500m semi and what got her DQ'ed....let's see if the same happens to Valcepina now (if they're consistent, she should be DQ'ed, stupid as it may be).

[heywoodu 16,458]

Just now, Kirkpatrick said:

Great gold for Valcepina from Italy!

 

Please no PEN, please no PEN.

This should not be worthy of a penalty, but if you DQ athlete A for something, you should DQ athlete B as well if B does exactly the same thing.

[Kirkpatrick 144]

And it's a penalty. That's it, I'm not watching short track anymore.

 

Today.

 

 

 

 

Except for men's final, and some relays.

[heywoodu 16,458]

Good that at least they are consistent even when DQ'ing people for stupid stuff.

[Kirkpatrick 144]

SS Liu DSQ for false start. Medals already on.

 

And some PEN bound to happen now.

 

Will there be no bronze? 

EDIT: No penalty, just restart. This sport is weird. Yet attractive.

Edited March 9, 2019 by Kirkpatrick

[heywoodu 16,458]

DQ for false start for Sandor Liu in the 500m final, two guys crashing straight through the boarding...even the boarding is of an incredibly amateuristic level here, what an insane farce of a championships

 

Shame on whoever (probably a high Bulgarian official in ISU) gave these championships to Sofia.

[Andry84 106]

Pity for Valcepina, she did something amazing, one of the best 500 race I have ever seen coming back from 4th place in the last lap, doing something different from she usually does being most of the times in first place after the start. 

The DQ was not so clear but it's definitely not a scandal, she could have stayed safe with silver medal, but she wanted gold and will go home with nothing...