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

[heywoodu 16,465]

Beune ain't making it in the 5k. She's being talked about as the big victim of these trials or something, but don't forget she's still going for double gold at the Olympics  

 

The actual victims are the ones who aren't making the Olympics, period.

[Noorderling29 238]

[Dennis 849]

This result opens the door even more for Jutta Leerdam to skate the 1.000m in Milan as the number 3 on that distance (Naomi Verkerk) is falling out of the team, though Rijpma might also want to claim that spot.  
 

Also easy job for the head coach to select the skaters for the mass start and team pursuit with the skaters that qualified. 

[Noorderling29 238]

[copravolley 644]

41 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

And, to be clear, he was better after Turin than before  

He had a very good season after Turin: he finished second in the World Cup standings in the 1500 meters, behind Wennemars, and in the 5 km, he was mostly beaten only by Kramer. Perhaps an injury slowed him down, but I don't remember, because social media didn't exist back then, and speed skating in the ITA was as popular as field hockey, or even less so :P 

 

Italy is a sad country - you're a hero at the Olympics at home, but just 1 years later no one cares about you, because the main news of the day is some nonsense about footballers, their girlfriends/lovers, etc. It's good that now at least Sinner has made his mark and covered up this football bullshit...

Edited December 30, 2025 by copravolley

[NearPup 4,184]

22 minutes ago, Dennis said:

This result opens the door even more for Jutta Leerdam to skate the 1.000m in Milan

Great, Jake Paul‘s fiancée is the only thing American media will talk about in Milan 

Edited December 30, 2025 by NearPup

[heywoodu 16,465]

9 minutes ago, copravolley said:

He had a very good season after Turin: he finished second in the World Cup standings in the 1500 meters, behind Wennemars, and in the 5 km, he was mostly beaten only by Kramer. Perhaps an injury slowed him down, but I don't remember, because social media didn't exist back then, and speed skating in the ITA was as popular as field hockey, or even less so :P 

 

Italy is a sad country - you're a hero at the Olympics at home, but just 1 years later no one cares about you, because the main news of the day is some nonsense about footballers, their girlfriends/lovers, etc. It's good that now at least Sinner has made his mark and covered up this football bullshit...

Basically all of his big individual successes came after Turin, and he had plenty of them - I mean, he even had a world record (for a week).

[heywoodu 16,465]

6 minutes ago, NearPup said:

Great, Jake Paul‘s fiancée is the only thing American media will talk about in Milan 

It's nearly the only thing Dutch media talks about, ugh. The moment Jake Paul is present in Heerenveen, they feel the need to show him a hundred times. He was there during these trials too, didn't exactly move his mouth a lot though  

[copravolley 644]

35 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Beune ain't making it in the 5k. She's being talked about as the big victim of these trials or something, but don't forget she's still going for double gold at the Olympics  

 

The actual victims are the ones who aren't making the Olympics, period.

It looks like Conijn is safe for gold in the 5km for today? Only Wiklund can challenge her, but she's not as dominant as Sablikova once was, so the Netherlands got it right here.

[copravolley 644]

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Basically all of his big individual successes came after Turin, and he had plenty of them - I mean, he even had a world record (for a week).

But later he never won an Olympic/World Championship gold medal after that. The 2010 Vancouver Olympics were a complete failure, and he soon retired.