Speed Skating ISU World Cup 2019 - 2020

[heywoodu 16,004]

19th place for Havard Bokko.....in the B division. This is just getting more and more sad every season  

[heywoodu 16,004]

Can we just skip Nur-Sultan for the rest of, I don't know, the lifetime of the universe? Jesus what a boring, dead venue, this is just pathetic.

[heywoodu 16,004]

This is very hopeful: Frenchman from 1996 who made the switch to ice only a bit over a year ago and had his first ever 10k today....impressive!

 

 

Also: Tumolero is back, wow!  

 

 

Sure, it's B-division so a little bit 'easier' to have a good time there, but still, that's some impressive stuff.

Edited December 7, 2019 by heywoodu

[phelps 8,287]

On 06/12/2019 at 13:29, heywoodu said:

Can we just skip Nur-Sultan for the rest of, I don't know, the lifetime of the universe? Jesus what a boring, dead venue, this is just pathetic.

 

it's a pity that's so dead an empty (at least, yesterday...I didn't watch today's session yet)...

 

it's such a wonderful venue...

 

if only Kazakhs speedskating fans were so many and so passionate as Thialf's...

[heywoodu 16,004]

1 minute ago, phelps said:

 

it's a pity that's so dead an empty (at least, yesterday...I didn't watch today's session yet)...

Trust me, it's not better  

 

Kazakhstan has one great venue and that's Medeo, as long as they don't lose their mind and build a roof over it.

[phelps 8,287]

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Trust me, it's not better  

 

Kazakhstan has one great venue and that's Medeo, as long as they don't lose their mind and build a roof over it.

 

I know you're obsessed with outdoor venues (and I admit you have a good reason), but also these new indoor venues can be state-of-the-art and a beautiful "landscape"...

 

I like this one in Nur-Sultan...the only problem to me is the lack of audience and "pathos" (as if it was nothing )...

[heywoodu 16,004]

Just now, phelps said:

 

I know you're obsessed with outdoor venues (and I admit you have a good reason), but also these new indoor venues can be state-of-the-art and a beautiful "landscape"...

 

I like this one in Nur-Sultan...the only problem to me is the lack of audience and "pathos" (as if it was nothing )...

 

Like every half-decent speed skating fan  I mean, there aren't going to be more epic races than those world champs in Inzell where the snow was falling, or basically any race in between the mountains in Medeo. From the inside all those indoor venues look sort of the same.

[heywoodu 16,004]

Meh, Krol beat Shani's track record  

[phelps 8,287]

6 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

Like every half-decent speed skating fan  I mean, there aren't going to be more epic races than those world champs in Inzell where the snow was falling, or basically any race in between the mountains in Medeo. From the inside all those indoor venues look sort of the same.

 

yeah, I remember my first speedskating races...those 2 unbelievable clashes over 5 and 10 kms between Thomas S. Gustafsson and Igor Malkov at the Sarajevo Olympics...

 

5k

 

 

10k

 

[heywoodu 16,004]

4th place for Vosté , cool