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3 minutes ago, phelps said:

I'm in mourning...:cry:

Pretty sure Leerdam is feeling worse than you though :p

 

Mostly because last week she already didn't really care about her win due to her mom having some serious health issues, so win or lose doesn't really matter for her at the moment. In interviews one can also clearly notice she's just really not 'there' at the moment.

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Just now, heywoodu said:

Pretty sure Leerdam is feeling worse than you though :p

 

Mostly because last week she already didn't really care about her win due to her mom having some serious health issues, so win or lose doesn't really matter for her at the moment. In interviews one can also clearly notice she's just really not 'there' at the moment.

didn't know that :yikes:

 

I wish them all the best :fingers:

 

p.s. physically, I'm feeling very, very bad though :facepalm:

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I love how Dutch commentators aren't able to interprate basic lap time information even after decades of commentating. Roest had the fastest time, Ghiotto was attacking it and started faster, but with two laps to go Ghiotto's lap times had slowly gone up and entered the 30+ seconds, whereas Roest had finished his race with low 29's. Two laps before the end their times were basically similar, but the commentators still somehow talked as if it was going to be tense/tight :p 

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13 minutes ago, Josh said:

First race of the season (women’s mass start) for :NED Irene Schouten coming up soon! :cheer:

Without young Bente Kerkhoff, who beat Schouten in the World Cup qualifiers in October (although the mass start wasn't a World Cup qualifier, there it's the national coach who decides). Schouten will continue the dream team with Marijke Groenewoud, her teammate.

 

Her immense 6:42 in the 5k a few weeks ago suggests Schouten's shape is excellent though :d 

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Speed Skating World Cup Beijing, China :CHN

 

Day 2

 

Women’s 1000m

Gold- :JPN Miho Takagi (1:14.44)

Silver- :USA Kimi Goetz (1:14.45)

Bronze- :NED Jutta Leerdam (1:14.88) :wub:

 

Men’s 500m

Gold- :JPN Wataru Morishige (34.69)

Silver- :CAN Laurent Dubreuil (34.81) :cheer:

Bronze- :JPN Yuma Murakami (34.82)

 

Men’s 5000m

Gold- :NED Patrick Roest (6:11.40)

Silver- :ITA Davide Ghiotto (6:14.25) 

Bronze- :NOR Sander Eitrem (6:15.42)

 

:CAN Ted Jan Bloemen 4th :p

 

Men’s Team Sprint

Gold- :USA Conor McDermott/Cooper McLeod/Zach Stoppelmoor (1:20.27)

Silver- :CHN Ning Zhongyan/Haonan Du/Bin Liu (1:20.72)

Bronze- :NED Hein Otterspeer/Wesly Dijs/Janno Botman (1:20.73)

 

Women’s Mass Start

Gold- :NED Marijke Groenewoud (63 SP/8:24.71)

Silver- :CAN Ivanie Blondin (40 SP, 8:37.58)

Bronze- :CAN Valerie Maltais (20 SP, 8:37.74)

 

Full Results

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3 hours ago, Josh said:

Men’s Team Sprint

Gold- :USA Conor McDermott/Cooper McLeod/Zach Stoppelmoor (1:20.27)

Silver- :CHN Zhihan Deng/Haonan Du/Bin Liu (1:20.72)

Bronze- :NED Hein Otterspeer/Wesly Dijs/Janno Botman (1:20.73)

I am not exactly sure which of the three Chinese riders you mentioned were not there, but their main star Ning Zhongyan absolutely was in the race (it was a last minute thing) :p 

 

Edit: apparently he replaced Deng.

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Ugh, Nuis being Nuis. Doing an interview after the race, an official doing his work points to ending the interview because it's podium time, and despite just having had a fantastic race, Nuis can't just laugh it off and say "be there in a second, thanks!", but angrily goes all "Oh film that guy, film that guy! Unbelievable!".

 

Reminds me of him angrily grabbing an official's accreditation in a threatening manner in Collalbo after a DQ :p He's a great skater when he's 'on', but man I won't miss him when he retires.

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