Speed Skating ISU World Cup 2024 - 2025

[rafalgorka 1,520]

How is 500 m races in 26 Olympics? One run only? Or two?

[Gianlu33 4,556]

9 minutes ago, rafalgorka said:

How is 500 m races in 26 Olympics? One run only? Or two?

It's a straight event.

[rafalgorka 1,520]

1 minute ago, Gianlu33 said:

It's a straight event.

Bad for us then . It will be a lottery. Very random results for 2-3 behind Stolz

[copravolley 261]

Until 2014 there were 2 heats.

[rafalgorka 1,520]

Ghiotto won 5k in Nagano. Nice

[rafalgorka 1,520]

2 minutes ago, copravolley said:

Until 2014 there were 2 heats.

It was much better format imo

[copravolley 261]

15 hours ago, phelps said:

 

2 things...

 

first, for what concerns the cooperation between inline skating and speedskating federations...sorry to disppoint some of you, but there's a great cooperation between them

 

the point is that many "summer" skaters just don't want to try the ice because they have too much to give up for that

 

you name places like Collalbo or Baselga, but for the "summer skating" guys from centeral and southern regions it's not an option, it's not that they make it for a living with those disciplines, they have to focus on their studies and build a post-competitive sport career and they just can't place themselves into a hole in the mountains when they maybe are studying in some prestigious universities in the big cities

 

as I already posted more than once, the idea of covering one of those tracks in the mountains was something idiotic, a political concession impossible to be sustained

 

the one and only chance to build a true legacy and an efficient, attractive national training center was to build a permanent indoor oval in Milan, beside the Forum

 

that would have given all the "summer skaters" a true opportunity to try the ice experience and at the same time find the most useful, attractive, prestigious places to continue their studies and try and manage them together with their sports career

 

any other place wouldn't stand a chance

 

second...don't give Salvini any credit he doesn't deserve...actually, I think he doesn't even know that in Cortina there's a sliding sports track 

 

it's not thanks to him that the Cortina track's building finally went underway 

I try to be objective and if Salvini does one good thing in his political life, so I can appreciate it  From what I remember, Malago has already announced that the competition will be abroad (St. Moritz or Innsbruck), then there was an option from Cesana which Tajani from FI lobbied for and at the very end Salvini unexpectedly forced a return to the Cortina option with a light version. Mainly because people associated with Lega govern in Veneto (Zaia). Zaia has repeatedly emphasized that without the bobsleigh competitions in Cortina, these games are not profitable for the city. That's all I remember from this story. The government of Conte and then Draghi failed more here, doing nothing with the preparations for the games, which is why so much time was lost. The center-right government is defective but at least their ambition didn`t allow them to run away with the bobsleigh abroad. I think Draghi or Renzi would agree to this, to have peace.

Edited 3 hours ago by copravolley