Speed Skating 2023 - 2024 Discussion Thread

[phelps 6,893]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Surely you're not saying Ghiotto is even remotely a 'safe' gold?  

in the 10K?

yes, we deeply count on that 

 

because we can say "safe" for anything related to short track nor an alpine skier named Sofia Goggia or a snowboard discipline like snowboardcross 

 

and we won't even have the chance to take advantage of a home track in luge and skeleton 

 

as a matter of fact, we're only competitive in very "risky" disciplines, that race in speedskating is the only "performance" event in which we start with heavy chances of winning the gold medal (at least for what we've seen last year)

[heywoodu 13,562]

3 minutes ago, phelps said:

in the 10K?

yes, we deeply count on that 

 

because we can say "safe" for anything related to short track nor an alpine skier named Sofia Goggia or a snowboard discipline like snowboardcross 

 

and we won't even have the chance to take advantage of a home track in luge and skeleton 

 

as a matter of fact, we're only competitive in very "risky" disciplines, that race in speedskating is the only "performance" event in which we start with heavy chances of winning the gold medal (at least for what we've seen last year)

 

Well he definitely does have a chance for gold, no doubt, although I'd say something like maximum 25% or so - counting the home advantage - is far from safe. But yeah, anything is safer than Goggia  

 

I would find it awesome by the way, Ghiotto is a fantastic fighter. A dream would be to have Ghiotto vs Roest in the last pair, that would be fireworks  

[rafalgorka 1,386]

Is there any website where we can find speed skating 2023/24 season top lists (best times by an athlete) - like athletics or swimming sites???

[phelps 6,893]

4 hours ago, rafalgorka said:

Is there any website where we can find speed skating 2023/24 season top lists (best times by an athlete) - like athletics or swimming sites???

https://speedskatingresults.com/

[rafalgorka 1,386]

A small question to the speed skating fans (US fans maybe):

 

Conor McDermott-Mostowy   - he may have some Polish family? Mostowy may be a Polish surname. Andrzej Gut-Mostowy is a Polish politician from Zakopane, he opted for the winter olympics here if i remember correctly. He's doing (or he used to do, I don't know, whatever) bussinesses in hotel, tourism and skiing facilities sector obviously.

Edited December 26, 2023 by rafalgorka

[heywoodu 13,562]

13:17.53 for Jordan Stolz in the US championships just now. Which, for those who aren't really into speed skating and times and such, is absolutely and utterly bizarre given the fact he is also able to skate a very low 34 second 500m. That range is astonishing beyond words.

[NearPup 2,167]

32 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

13:17.53 for Jordan Stolz in the US championships just now. Which, for those who aren't really into speed skating and times and such, is absolutely and utterly bizarre given the fact he is also able to skate a very low 34 second 500m. That range is astonishing beyond words.

Someone wants to be the next Eric Heiden.

[Josh 5,766]

ISU Four Continents Championships | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

 

Day 1

 

Women’s Team Sprint

Gold-  Japan (1:24.34)

Silver-  United States (1:25.00)

Bronze-  Canada (1:25.41)

 

Men’s Team Sprint

Gold-  Canada (1:18.54)

Silver-  Kazakhstan (1:21.71)

Bronze-  South Korea (1:22.01)

 

Just wanted to mention, that there were only four entries in this event, and United States got DQd. 

 

Women’s 1500m

Gold-  Miho Takagi (1:52.37)

Silver-  Mia Manganello (1:55.11)

Bronze-  Greta Myers (1:55.86)

 

Men’s 1500m

Gold-  Connor Howe (1:43.19)

Silver-  Emery Lehman (1:44.03)

Bronze-  Ryota Kojima (1:44.40)

 

Full Results

[Josh 5,766]

ISU Four Continents Championships | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States 

 

Day 2

 

Women’s 500m

Gold-  Erin Jackson (36.82)

Silver-  Kimi Goetz (36.93)

Bronze-  Min-Sun Kim (37.21)

 

Men’s 500m

Gold-  Laurent Dubreuil (34.19)

Silver-  Wataru Morishige (34.23)

Bronze-  Tatsuya Shinhama (34.28)

 

Women’s 3000m

Gold-  Valerie Maltais (4:01.71)

Silver-  Isabelle Weidemann (4:02.67)

Bronze-  Mia Manganello (4:02.85)

 

Men’s 5000m

Gold-  Casey Dawson (6:14.14)

Silver-  Graeme Fish (6:14.16)

Bronze-  Ted-Jan Bloemen (6:14.22)

 

Full Results

[Josh 5,766]

 

ISU Four Continents Championships | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States 

 

Sorry I’m a bit late with updating, was busy watching the GSOC Canadian Open final between Team Homan and Team Tirinzoni when it finished, and completely forgot about it afterwards  

 

Day 3

 

Women’s Team Pursuit

Gold-  Canada (2:54.02)

Silver-  Japan (2:57.54)

Bronze-  United States (3:04.32)

 

4 entries here as well. 

 

Men’s Team Pursuit

Gold-  United States (3:36.80)

Silver-  Canada (3:36.84)

Bronze-  Japan (3:42.08)

 

Women’s 1000m

Gold-  Miho Takagi (1:12.35)

Silver-  Kimi Goetz (1:12.65)

Bronze-  Min-Sun Kim (1:13.84)

 

Men’s 1000m

Gold-  Jordan Stolz (1:06.27)

Silver-  Taiyo Nonomura  (1:06.68)

Bronze-  Tatsuya Shinhama (1:07.04)

 

Women’s Mass Start

Gold-  Ivanie Blondin (66 SP/8:42.56)

Silver-  Giorgia Birkeland (43 SP/8:44.45)
Bronze-  Kyoko Nitta (26 SP/8:47.19)

 

Men’s Mass Start

Gold-  Jae-Won Chung (60 SP/8:16.33)

Silver-  Shomu Sasaki (40 SP/8:16.43)

Bronze-  Antoine Gelinas-Beaulieu (20 SP/8:16.46)

 

Full Results

Edited January 22 by Josh