Speed Skating at the Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026

[rybak 3,431]

5 minutes ago, Adriano said:

I am just fair - we are saying things about Turkey or Qatar.  This guy was simple a deal. If you like it your choice. He is not refugee from war or regiment, he did not have polish roots. It's  talented guy woth medal in WCJ from Russia. We could buy more probably chinese in table tennis or ice skaters from netherlands or african Runner, but this is not fair.

You will say the same about Wilfredo Leon for example?

[Adriano 836]

6 minutes ago, rybak said:

You will say the same about Wilfredo Leon for example?

No. He did not change his country because somebody offer him better sport life. He went here because have  family (wife). this case was simple deal.

Edited February 13 by Adriano

[Adriano 836]

8 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I think you're the one person who doesn't like this, besides that, he is very popular and liked all around the speed skating world luckily  

 

Awesome podium today!

It not like I don't  like him. He is good guy. But I do not like buying athletes. I do not want Poland be next Qatar or Turkey. Congrats for him this race is difficult and He did it, but I am not connected with this medal.

Edited February 13 by Adriano

[Federer91 3,376]

 Czechia having another very good Olympics as is tradition. 

[stepansevs 219]

1 hour ago, hckošice said:

another medal for Czechoslovakia  What a day we have 

Its great, but it seems that it is all. 

Because Czech women hockey ended in QF. 

Yes, there still are some chances, but very small chances.

As i said, time for you 😄

[Dennis 849]

Prediction for tomorrow's 500m:

 

1. Jordan Stolz 

2. Damian Żurek 
3. Jenning de Boo 
4. Kim Jun-Ho 
5. Wataru Morishige 
6. Marek Kania 
7. Yevgeniy Koshkin 
8. Bjørn Magnussen 
9.  Cooper McLeod
10.  Marten Liiv
11. Laurent Dubreuil 
12. Xue Zhiwen 
13. Sebas Diniz 
14. Tatsuya Shinhama 
15. Gao Tingyu 
16. Katsuhiro Kuratsubo 
17. Lian Ziwen 
18.  Anders Johnson
19. Koo Kyung-Min 
20. Joep Wennemars 
21. Piotr Michalski 
22. Cédrick Brunet 
23. Nil Llop Izquierdo 
24. Zach Stoppelmoor 
25. Jeffrey Rosanelli 
26. Henrik Fagerli Rukke 
27. Moritz Klein 
28. Ignaz Gschwentner 
29. Hendrik Dombek 

[rybak 3,431]

 Kim will race with  Gao,  Diniz will race with  Żurek,  Stolz again with De Boo and  Morishige with  Magnussen. 

 

@Dennis those pairs seems to be fair?

[hckošice 16,605]

PAIRING of the M 500m

 

& W Team Pursuit Quarterfinals Start List HERE

[NearPup 4,166]

1 minute ago, hckošice said:

PAIRING of the M 500m

 

& W Team Pursuit Quarterfinals Start List HERE

Based on how people have been skating it kinda feels like nobody deserves to win the women’s TP xD

 

(so I guess it means it will be an entertaining scrap for gold)

Edited February 13 by NearPup

[copravolley 635]

6 hours ago, Adriano said:

It not like I don't  like him. He is good guy. But I do not like buying athletes. I do not want Poland be next Qatar or Turkey. Congrats for him this race is difficult and He did it, but I am not connected with this medal.

When I was recently in Warsaw in December and walking its streets, I have the impression that for about 5-10 years, 1/3 of your athletes of most of popular sports summer and winter, will be probably came from Ukraine/Belarus etc., but I could be wrong. Unfortunately, the war contributed a lot to this, and it's not over yet 

 

Poland did a great business with Semyrunyi, but it was certainly influenced by the fact that they have an indoor track and good training conditions there, but it could have been as you wrote, that today he would have won a medal for Kazakhstan or Germany. At all, Poland currently only has excellent sprint teams: men's and women's, so someone like Wladimir would be very useful in the long distances, because without him, Poland is practically nonexistent there. And yet, they have one more medal. 

 

The Czech Republic, however, has the greatest luck: no indoor track at home, no major home events like the Olympics, etc, all the attention on ice hockey, but for 20 years they've had Sablikova and now Jilek- probably for next 20 years. Sport isn't always fair. Actually, Slovakia could at least get someone like that now, just to balance things out, instead of always having lucky of one country

Edited February 14 by copravolley