Speed Skating ISU Allround & Sprint World Championships 2020

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Emotional goodbye for Havard Bøkko, what a career. Too bad this is how it ended, but he has given us a lot of good things to watch.

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Seitaro Ichinohe is the first Japanese rider on the male allround podium since legendary Keiji Shirahata in 1997, what a race  

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Ireen Wüst takes her 7th world title, Patrick Roest his 3rd.

 

And with that, an absolute era in the world of speed skating has come to an end, fucked right up by the ISU themselves. This atrocity of a double world champs in one weekend will be repeated...once every two years, meaning next year will have no allround champion (or sprint) at all, for the first time since 1947, when it was resumed after the WW2 break

 

Thank you for messing up a beautiful sport, ISU. It's been a wonderful run until all kind of circus events got priority over the soul of the sport.