Speed Skating ISU World Cup 2023 - 2024

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Speed Skating ISU World Cup 2023 - 2024

 

Multi-Stage Event - 10 November 2023 - 4 February 2024

 

 

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Edited October 16, 2023 by Sindo

[heywoodu 16,476]

Irene Schouten and the rest of her teammates have decided to skip the first World Cup in Japan, because it doesn't fit in their schedule. As always, speed skating is the winter sport where the World Cup is by far the least valuable of all, I've been watching it since before I could walk and watch all the World Cups and important championships and still have no clue who actually wins the overall World Cups or something during the season  

Edited November 3, 2023 by heywoodu

[rafalgorka 1,821]

16 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Irene Schouten and the rest of her teammates have decided to skip the first World Cup in Japan, because it doesn't fit in their schedule. As always, speed skating is the winter sport where the World Cup is by far the least valuable of all, I've been watching it since before I could walk and watch all the World Cups and important championships and still have no clue who actually wins the overall World Cups or something during the season  

Surely you know better about cross-country skiing than me so correct me if i am wrong here, but i have a feeling FIS Cross-Country World Cup becomes least and least valuable - to some degree - as well.

This season may be a bit different because there are no WCH and Tour de Ski will be more important,

But normally i enjoy watching Ruka opening weekend World Cup very much because almost everybody's there and then... many people skip every other stage. Very disappointing.

Edited November 4, 2023 by rafalgorka

[heywoodu 16,476]

7 hours ago, rafalgorka said:

Surely you know better about cross-country skiing than me so correct me if i am wrong here, but i have a feeling FIS Cross-Country World Cup becomes least and least valuable - to some degree - as well.

This season may be a bit different because there are no WCH and Tour de Ski will be more important,

But normally i enjoy watching Ruka opening weekend World Cup very much because almost everybody's there and then... many people skip every other stage. Very disappointing.

In cross-country skiing most World Cups still have most of the top athletes (not always all, no), but also: the cross-country World Cup is a consistent season. It starts in November and until March or so we've got competition almost every week, with always some focus on the World Cup standings (the overall especially). In speed skating, there's a handful of World Cups and that's it, and there's always more big names missing, especially when going to Asia. Besides, there's just never really a focus on the standings. Not even the overall ones, let alone the little globes (if they even have globes for the sub-classifications? No idea)  

[SalamAkhi 359]

Is it usual not to have any entries two days before the event ?

[dcro 10,211]

8 hours ago, SalamAkhi said:

Is it usual not to have any entries two days before the event ?

It is. You'll have to wait for the startlists themselves.

[phelps 8,768]

 

 

women

 

Laura Lorenzato

Veronica Luciani

Serena Pergher

 

men

 

Francesco Betti

David Bosa

Daniele Di Stefano

Davide Ghiotto

Andrea Giovannini

Riccardo Lorello

Michele Malfatti

Alessio Trentini

 

all eyes on Ghiotto, of course

 

but also looking forward to Pergher (especially in the women's 500m, distance on which she's the reigning junior world champion) and Di Stefano (who improved a lot above all in the 1500m in the recent warm-up races in Inzell)

 

our top female skater, Francesca Lollobrigida, who gave birth to a child just a few months ago, will be back in the world cup only when the circus gets back to Europe (beginning of December in  Stavanger), as she isn't comfortable to fly that far with her young baby (she already competed in Inzell a couple of weeks ago, though...and showed a good shape for someone who just started skating after almost a year of inactivity -she went 4.06 in the 3k)

Edited November 9, 2023 by phelps

[SalamAkhi 359]

3  skaters, first TP since 2014. And two guys currently injured could have featured here. These are good signs, even if the French bid for 2030 would include speed skating in the Netherlands 

A bit disappointing not to see any woman. One, Charlotte Guillermin, is competitive enough to qualify through the Mixed Gender Relay pathway, don't know why she does not enter. If this has to do with nobody understanding the "loophole" and thus a missed opportunity ... 

[heywoodu 16,476]

18 hours ago, SalamAkhi said:

Is it usual not to have any entries two days before the event ?

They usually appear online significantly earlier than they did now. Usually a list with which athletes in which distance, and then the night before the first races we get the start lists.

[intoronto 6,947]

Erin Jackson is competing just days after winning gold at the 2023 Pan American Games in roller speed skating.