Speed Skating Discussion | Qualification to Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026

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Japanese Olympic Trials Results:

 

Men:

 

500m:

1. Wataru Morishige - 34.36

2. Tatsuya Shinhama - 34.40

3. Katsuhiro Kuratsubo - 34.66

 

1000m:

1. Kazuya Yamada - 1:08.53

2. Taiyo Nonomura - 1:08.62

3. Wataru Morishige - 1:08.77

 

1500m:

1. Taiyo Nonomura - 1:45.26

2. Kotaro Kasahara - 1:45.88

3. Kazuya Yamada - 1:45.96

 

5000m:

1. Shomu Sasaki - 6:20.66

2. Riku Tsuchiya - 6:22.98

3. Ryosuke Tsuchiya - 6:23.29

 

10000m:

1. Takahiro Ito - 13:20.22

2. Ryosuke Tsuchiya - 13:20.29

3. Kenta Kikuchi - 13:23.60

 

Mass Start:

1. Yuta Fuchigami - 66 points

2. Shuta Hoshikawa - 44 points

3. Hinata Kosaka - 22 points

 

Women:

 

500m:

1. Yukino Yoshida - 37.36

2. Miho Takagi - 37.60

3. Rio Yamada - 38.17

 

1000m:

1. Miho Takagi - 1:14.53

2. Yukino Yoshida - 1:14.66

3. Rio Yamada - 1:15.52

 

1500m:

1. Miho Takagi - 1:55.12

2. Ayano Sato - 1:56.21

3. Momoka Horikawa - 1:57.20

 

3000m:

1. Momoka Horikawa - 4:04.77

2. Ayano Sato - 4:06.23

3. Hana Noake - 4:11.35

 

5000m:

1. Yuka Takahashi - 7:17.72

2. Manami Momose - 7:21.67

3. Kyoko Nitta - 7:23.55

 

Mass Start:

1. Rin Kosaka - 60 points

2. Kyoko Nitta - 45 points

3. Anna Kondo - 20 points

[phelps 8,730]

5 hours ago, heywoodu said:

12:36 for Stijn van de Bunt, arguably even more impressive than his 5k, wow. Just wow, nearly a national record! 

 

What a guy.

 

5 hours ago, Noorderling29 said:

12.36 for van de Bunt, 7th fastest ever in Heerenveen. Now mopping break

who's this guy?

where does he come out from?

I just can't believe how good/great endurance skaters break out like mushrooms in the

 

[copravolley 644]

12 minutes ago, phelps said:

 

who's this guy?

where does he come out from?

I just can't believe how good/great endurance skaters break out like mushrooms in the

 

There's always someone who will show up there, but it's unlikely to be someone who'll win gold in Cortina. Ghiotto, on the other hand, in his best from a 1 or 2 ago, should be able to beat him quite confidently: Ghiotto beat Bergsma by at least 11-12 seconds in the 10km. If he's not in that form, he could just as easily lose to Semurunnyi or Lubineaud (sorry, if I write bad this 2 names).

Edited December 28, 2025 by copravolley

[copravolley 644]

A true champion- van der Poel came to Beijing for 2 gold medal, and he won 2 gold there, without worrying about other people from the Netherlands: Roest, Norway, or any other country. These are the kinds of people Italy lacks.

Edited December 28, 2025 by copravolley

[Josh 13,529]

 team is seriously in shambles and I wouldn’t be surprised if we only win a few bronzes or slightly better at Milano-Cortina…

 

Our men are nonexistent, Dubreuil still is awful coming back from injury and nowhere near his 2021-22 form, he’d be lucky to get a top 16 finish. Jan-Bloemen is old and his 5,000m WC podium was a fluke, at best it’ll be a top 8 finish in each event. For the women, Weidemann won’t beat Groenewoud/Wiklund in the 5km/10km and Blondin with Groenewoud (probably, she beats her all the time) or Mangianello in the mass start, and Maltais can only aim for a minor medal at best. We don’t even have our team pursuit anymore, used to be by far the best and now we’re getting beaten by Netherlands/Japan…

[copravolley 644]

4 minutes ago, Josh said:

 team is seriously in shambles and I wouldn’t be surprised if we only win a few bronzes or slightly better at Milano-Cortina…

 

Our men are nonexistent, Dubreuil still is awful coming back from injury and nowhere near his 2021-22 form, he’d be lucky to get a top 16 finish. Jan-Bloemen is old and his 5,000m WC podium was a fluke, at best it’ll be a top 8 finish in each event. For the women, Weidemann won’t beat Groenewoud/Wiklund in the 5km/10km and Blondin with Groenewoud (probably, she beats her all the time) or Mangianello in the mass start, and Maltais can only aim for a minor medal at best. We don’t even have our team pursuit anymore, used to be by far the best and now we’re getting beaten by Netherlands/Japan…

Do you have short track, freestyle, snowboardcross, hockey x2? You'll definitely win 5-6 gold medals. If you want, I'll gladly sign now for Italy to win 5-6 gold medals in February... Canada has at least 3 girls competing for medals in the long distances, and we only have 1 Lollobirigida- also quite old.

Edited December 28, 2025 by copravolley

[Josh 13,529]

1 minute ago, copravolley said:

Do you have short track, freestyle, snowboardcross, hockey x2? You'll definitely win 5-6 gold medals. If you want, I'll gladly sign now for Italy to win 5-6 gold medals in February...

Short-track is unpredictable and ridden by bullshit refs who give out weird penalties and home-advantage calls to favour the home athletes. Women’s hockey, we aren’t beating the US this time around, the rivalry series went horribly and I’d be happy if we can hang on to silver. It was that bad. 
 

Freestyle skiing team, a lot of them have been getting injured our ski cross contenders (Hoffos, who was in the best form of her career, Sherret), Kingsbury, Oldham... Then you have Blouin, and reigning World Champion Liam Brearley in snowboarding, 2024 world champion in skeleton Hallie Clarke, and 2023 world champion in ski jumping Alexandria Loutitt who are all out injured for the season.

 

I don’t think you have anything to worry about, Italy will have a nice home boost and win 5-6 golds, but yeah that would’ve been pretty bad for us even before our entire team getting injured. I still view it as a disappointment either way. 

[copravolley 644]

3 minutes ago, Josh said:

Short-track is unpredictable and ridden by bullshit refs who give out weird penalties and home-advantage calls to favour the home athletes. Women’s hockey, we aren’t beating the US this time around, the rivalry series went horribly and I’d be happy if we can hang on to silver. It was that bad. 
 

Freestyle skiing team, a lot of them have been getting injured our ski cross contenders (Hoffos, who was in the best form of her career, Sherret), Kingsbury, Oldham... Then you have Blouin, and reigning World Champion Liam Brearley in snowboarding, 2024 world champion in skeleton Hallie Clarke, and 2023 world champion in ski jumping Alexandria Loutitt who are all out injured for the season.

 

I don’t think you have anything to worry about, Italy will have a nice home boost and win 5-6 golds, but yeah that would’ve been pretty bad for us even before our entire team getting injured. I still view it as a disappointment either way. 

Canada had a great home-boost in 2010. Unfortunately, that's not the case in us – look at 2006... We won fewer medals in Torino 2006 than in 2002 (11 vs. 13)

Edited December 28, 2025 by copravolley

[copravolley 644]

23 minutes ago, Josh said:

Short-track is unpredictable and ridden by bullshit refs who give out weird penalties and home-advantage calls to favour the home athletes. Women’s hockey, we aren’t beating the US this time around, the rivalry series went horribly and I’d be happy if we can hang on to silver. It was that bad. 
 

Freestyle skiing team, a lot of them have been getting injured our ski cross contenders (Hoffos, who was in the best form of her career, Sherret), Kingsbury, Oldham... Then you have Blouin, and reigning World Champion Liam Brearley in snowboarding, 2024 world champion in skeleton Hallie Clarke, and 2023 world champion in ski jumping Alexandria Loutitt who are all out injured for the season.

 

I don’t think you have anything to worry about, Italy will have a nice home boost and win 5-6 golds, but yeah that would’ve been pretty bad for us even before our entire team getting injured. I still view it as a disappointment either way. 

My personal favorite in Canadian athlete is Valerie Grenier. She's so likeable and sweet

[Josh 13,529]

34 minutes ago, copravolley said:

My personal favorite in Canadian athlete is Valerie Grenier. She's so likeable and sweet

Not the first name I’d think people think of when naming their favourite Canadian athletes I’m surprised