Short Track Speed Skating at the Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026

[copravolley 620]

That's why I prefer clean sports, where talent is the deciding factor, not good relationships with the jury. If Brignone wins, it's because she's the best, and nothing clown from Hungary or any other country can change that. Unfortunately, there are more and more disciplines at the Olympics where the jury primarily decides who wins, who loses, and who wins a medal.

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[copravolley 620]

We lost the gold to Korea, but if we were going to lose to anyone, it was them- the country that is the cradle of this sport, not the Netherlands, which only seriously entered the sport eight to last 8-10 years ago and created serial dominators, like in speed skating, track cycyling, etc. I simply can't like their model, where they create athletes for serial victories in 2/3 selected disciplines. 

[copravolley 620]

The Italian federation has issued an official stance – I hope they finally take a closer look at this Hungarian clown. I just hope it's not like someone wrote here, where the former Canadian skater makes the decisions and that Hungarian just announces them.

 

https://www.fisg.it/short-track-milano-cortina-2026-presidente-gios-grande-delusione-e-amarezza-per-il-trattamento-del-giudice-nei-confronti-di-pietro-sighel/

[orangeman 2,733]

The Canadian who went down with Sighal also didn't advance. There was no advantage for Canada. The only decision was if Sighal would advance, and the official said no. No one advanced. Even if you think it was an unfair ruling, it didn't benefit Canada in any way. 

 

Meanwhile, several Canadians have been penalized throughout the competition, just like every other country. One even got a yellow card. Dandjinou was on his way to a medal, but was bumped in the final and lost. Our women today were bumped by the Koreans and nothing was done. These things happen in short track. At no time did any decision benefit a Canadian, whether you agree with it or not. 

[NearPup 4,009]

11 hours ago, copravolley said:

That's why I prefer clean sports, where talent is the deciding factor, not good relationships with the jury. If Brignone wins, it's because she's the best, and nothing clown from Hungary or any other country can change that. Unfortunately, there are more and more disciplines at the Olympics where the jury primarily decides who wins, who loses, and who wins a medal.

But if a funny example given how much unfairness there is built into alpine skiing - just from Mother Nature and from

the track evolving.

[hckošice 16,457]

We still in this discussion here ? 

[pdr4332 249]

Well what did the Hungarian do?

Seriously asking as I did not follow much the short track competition this Olympics.

And on whose behalf was he supposedly working?

Probably not Hungary, as they do not have any competitive athletes this Olympics and you need to cheat more than Lukasenka if you want to put someone from 16th place into medal positions.

Not reflexively defending the guy as if he did seriously cheat he wouldn't be the first international sport official from being corrupt. See the "good old" Tamas Ajan who was the pinnacle of corruption in the corrupted and dirty sport of weightlifting. (This is even independent from the political setting as Ajan had nothing to do with the present day "government")

But really interested in what his errors, real or alleged, were.

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[copravolley 620]

26 minutes ago, pdr4332 said:

Well what did the Hungarian do?

Seriously asking as I did not follow much the short track competition this Olympics.

And on whose behalf was he supposedly working?

Probably not Hungary, as they do not have any competitive athletes this Olympics and you need to cheat more than Lukasenka if you want to put someone from 16th place into medal positions.

Not reflexively defending the guy as if he did seriously cheat he wouldn't be the first international sport official from being corrupt. See the "good old" Tamas Ajan who was the pinnacle of corruption in the corrupted and dirty sport of weightlifting. (This is even independent from the political setting as Ajan had nothing to do with the present day "government")

But really interested in what his errors, real or alleged, were.

 

It's all write here. Since the Italian Federation (Fisg) officially took a stance, the matter must have been serious, becouse Italian sports associations generally don't want to step out of line in such situations. It is also write, that, the peopel from oher teams (they don't specify which ones) share the point of wiev Italians, that Sighel is permanently discriminated against by this one referee from Hungary. I'm also surprised that the same person is still the main referee every day of the finals?

 

https://www.neveitalia.it/olimpiadi-invernali/milanocortina2026/news/sighel-di-nuovo-buttato-a-terra-la-fisg-alza-la-voce-decisioni-incoerenti-da-parte-dello-stesso-giudice

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[szy123 118]

I watched most of the short track action at this Olympics and I don't feel like there were any major controversies. Probably the only situation I recall that might be considered controversial and could go both ways was Sighel vs Niewiński at 1000m race, but even there I do agree with the final call as apart from the blades contact I saw that Niewiński was bumped here with either hip or shoulder (I don't remember perfectly now) and that caused him lose balance