You have good athletes already in snowboard and freestyle, they just need some extra guidance to make the jump to being elite ones.   Alpine is lacking, especially on the women's side, so a lot of work needs to be done there. Cross-country showed big potential on the men's side, but the women are again not present. Ski-jumping has Faubert, but that is a specific sport.   The biggest problems are in the skating and sliding sports. As we see those sports bring looooooooots of medals and France is nowhere near competitive in them (bar one Loubineaud).       

So if Bach was "Mr. 1976 Olympic Champion in Fencing", Coventry is going down as "Mrs. I was not aware". 

I guess the Danes just love handball too much a bit like our obscene love of rugby in NZ. I always think imagine if some of those rugby players threw a shot put or a hammer throw instead. I mean one former national junior rugby player Tom Walsh is slowly showing the way. I guess some of those Danish handballers could try speedskating. I'm always baffled with the Belgians. Maybe too much love of road cycling.

The Netherlands is just lucky. I hope there's nothing more to it. Norway and the Netherlands have such an advantage in some sports that I'd like to take a closer look at them – after all, there was already a controversy over Bjoergen's asthma medication.

This is my objection to .  Far more cold.  Just as flat. Got two Winter Olympic medals &  have so many they can afford to offload a few to their slow-witted country cousins in

Gabriela Topolska and Vladimir Semirunniy 

Yes, he should be in the final, either eliminating attacks or chasing Bergsma for silver. For several days now, I've been thinking we don't have enough silver medals and that could be bad for us. Yesterday, Sighel could have easily finished second and it would have been fine.

That's actually a good way to remind me why nobody should be obsessed with the medal table.

The Dutch have a long history in speed skating particularly long track where it's a national obsession a lot like Norway and XC skiing. They have over 100 yrs of it so it's tradition etc. With Korea and China not as dominant anymore in short track where its a bit of a lottery that became bonus territory regardless of them getting regular medals since 2014. But you could say it was a given that they'd eventually challenge in that discipline as well. 

Women's Mass Start Final Results    Marijke GROENEWOUD 60   Ivanie BLONDIN 40   Mia MANGANELLO 20 Full Final Result HERE