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Like it wasn't bad enough, countries aren't going to be announced as the country anymore, they're now officially racing under super lame forced nicknames.   Dutch Lions Korean Tigers

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To be fair, the only way to make the qualifying day shorter is by allowing fewer athletes and I really don't think that's a good trade-off for the sport. Qualifying day can be the biggest spectacle on

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ISU World Tour 2024/25 - :CAN Montréal (Stage 1/6)

 

Men's 500m:

 

01. :CAN William Dandjinou

02. :CAN Steven Dubois

03. :CHN Lin Xiaojun

 

Men's 1.500m:

 

01. :CAN William Dandjinou

02. :KOR Park Ji Won

03. :CAN Steven Dubois

 

Women's 1.000m:

 

01. :NED Xandra Velzeboer

02. :USA Kristen Santos-Griswold

03. :USA Corinne Stoddard

 

Women's 3.000m Relay:

 

01. :ITA Italy

02. :KOR South Korea

03. :NED the Netherlands

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Sighel is unfortunately in poor shape. He doesn't shine and lets himself be overtaken in a childish way. Those 2x4 places are still beyond his actual level. The women's team, despite winning yesterday in the relay, unfortunately doesn't have a single athlete capable of fighting for an individual medal under normal conditions and that won't change. This was already visible at the last World Championships, when Arianna Fontana was the best Italian in every competition after 2 years without starts. It doesn't look good. Maybe Valcepina will come back in the 500 meters but unfortunately none of the youngsters are able to make visible progress.

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The Netherlands without Schulting can field 2-3 more strong and young skaters and we have been relying solely on one Fontana for a dozen or so years, who is 34 and still the best of us. Although I doubt she will ever win anything on an individual level again. Unfortunately, we miss generational change and 1-2 skaters at the level of, for example, Desmet or one of the Americans. I`m not talking about Fontana, because we will haven`t someone like that again for the next 100 years.

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ISU World Tour 2024/25 - :CAN Montréal (Stage 1/6)

 

Men's 1.000m:

 

01. :NED Jens van 't Wout

02. :LAT Roberts Kruzbergs

03. :POL Michal Niewinski

 

Women's 500m:

 

01. :NED Xandra Velzeboer

02. :USA Kristen Santos-Griswold

03. :BEL Hanne Desmet

 

Women's 1.500m:

 

01. :KOR Kim Gilli

02. :BEL Hanne Desmet

03. :KOR Choi Minjeong

 

Men's 5.000m Relay:

 

01. :CAN Canada

02. :CHN China

03. :NED the Netherlands

 

Mixed 3.000m Relay:

 

01. :NED the Netherlands

02. :KOR South Korea

03. :CAN Canada

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3x 4th place today. Men's relay crash. Our entire team is based only on Sighel. If he's not in shape, we have to count on others crashing, like yesterday in the women's relay.

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ISU World Tour 2024/25 - :CAN Montréal (Stage 2/6)

 

Men's 1.500m:

 

01. :CAN William Dandjinou

02. :LAT Roberts Kruzbergs

03. :ITA Pietro Sighel

 

17-year-old :TUR Muhammed Bozdağ in 6th place :yes. He won silver in the boys' 1.000m at the 2024 Winter YOG in Gangneung earlier this year.

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