Short Track Speed Skating ISU World Cup 2023 - 2024

[Dennis 746]

  On 10/29/2023 at 8:38 PM, Dennis said:

Maybe that's true, but I argue that  and  are just doing better than last week, which has an impact on the chances of all other smaller teams. 

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I was wrong. If you sum the total World Cup points won (excl. relays) in week 1 versus week 2, then Italy is indeed under-performing compared to Stage 1.

 

Most improved are:

1.  +336 points (796 vs. 460)
2.  +115 points (1143 vs. 1028)
3.  +115 points (716 vs. 601)

Biggest decreases:

1.  -151 points (442 vs. 593)
2.  -142 points (211 vs. 353)
3.  -121 points (243 vs. 364)

[Dennis 746]

The women's relay final was pure chaos:   and  fell (first , not much later both  and ). and  missed an exchange because the riders from Canada and the Netherlands were hindering each other.

 

I don't think anyone knows who won. The on screen timing now says  won, but I'm totally not sure.

Edited October 29, 2023 by Dennis

[Dennis 746]

After about 10 minutes, a decision was taken: a penalty for  for hitting the skater from team  from behind, causing both their own skater and the Korean skater to fall.

 

 indeed won gold,  silver and  bronze.

[Dennis 746]

  

ISU World Cup 2023/24 - Montréal (Stage 2/6)

 

Women's 3.000m Relay:

 

01.  South Korea

02.  the Netherlands

03.  United States of America

 

Men's 5.000m Relay:

 

01.  China

02.  Canada

03.  Kazakhstan ()

[Dennis 746]

Two interesting weeks in Montréal! Next week the Four Continents Championships will be held in  Laval.

 

The World Cup will continue on December 8th with Stage 3 in Beijing and then Stage 4 starting December 15th in Seoul.

[rybak 3,236]

Looks like  is nowhere without Natalia Maliszewska and it would be even worse if we wouldn't have under our flag Neithan Thomas, Diane Sellier and Felix Pigeon...

[Noorderling29 168]

Pigeon was a bit of a kamikaze pilot in the 1000 meter final.

[Noorderling29 168]

According to the specialist speedkating website, schaatsen.nl, the Dutch team has lodged a complaint: they claim the Korean women skated one fewer round. As I understand it, according to our national coach, the jury has acknowledged this, and the expectation is that the result will be changed accordingly, hopefully before the next World Cup event in Beijing in early December . 

[heywoodu 15,321]

  On 10/30/2023 at 11:07 AM, Noorderling29 said:

According to the specialist speedkating website, schaatsen.nl, the Dutch team has lodged a complaint: they claim the Korean women skated one fewer round. As I understand it, according to our national coach, the jury has acknowledged this, and the expectation is that the result will be changed accordingly, hopefully before the next World Cup event in Beijing in early December . 

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One would say those 10 minutes they took yesterday should be enough to rewatch the entire race on slowmotion and easily count the laps, that should have been step 1...

[Dennis 746]

  On 10/30/2023 at 11:07 AM, Noorderling29 said:

According to the specialist speedkating website, schaatsen.nl, the Dutch team has lodged a complaint: they claim the Korean women skated one fewer round. As I understand it, according to our national coach, the jury has acknowledged this, and the expectation is that the result will be changed accordingly, hopefully before the next World Cup event in Beijing in early December . 

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I was also surprised that Korea finished one lap before the rest, but then again, it was probably the most chaotic race I've ever seen. Some of the skaters were also confused as Kristen Santos was sprinting to the finish with the Korean skater, and then it turned out that the US had to skate one more lap. Well now it turns out that Korea also had to skate one more, so both teams sprinted to early.