Speed Skating at the Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026

[copravolley 635]

Some words about Ghiotto: for me he doesn't have the same personality/character, like Lollobrigida- I also wrote about this yesterday about case of Wiklund. Ghiotto can only win/win medals when he's in 100% shape. Otherwise, he gives up mentally. He can't break through in a difficult moment during the race and try to salvage at least some of his race. Today, the silver/bronze medal was within reach- all he needed was to win the heat against Begrsma (when was the last time he lost to him in a 10 km race?). In my opinion, Lollobrigida had the totally different personality, that Ghiotto did. When she would a similar mental, like Ghiotto, so she have given up yesterday with max. 2/3 laps remaining and finished 4. Another thing is that even without the right mentality, Ghiotto today had his worst 10k race in over 5 years and there's no excuse for that. Unless he was sick or injured, but I don't know anything about that yet.

Edited February 14 by copravolley

[Adriano 836]

10 hours ago, copravolley said:

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

Nice sum up - but I wanted to clear. We have plenty refugees (war - Ukraine, dictatorship - Belarus), as you  mentioned. I do not have any problem with that they are leaving here because of the life situation. Many of them have polish roots.  That's okey. / here for me was situation like you also mentioned - he wants to start - so he was looking a base (this was mentioned by Polish officiall that other countries wants him). He got passport quicker from President. I like this guy he is very cheerful and speak more and more fluently in Polish, but I wanna be honest that I do not like naturalisation in sport, because some country has a base or fundings. For me this situations are different.

Edited February 14 by Adriano

[orangeman 2,876]

Canada vs USA

Japan vs Netherlands

 

For the semi-finals of the women's pursuit. Canada qualifies in 1st! 

[NearPup 4,166]

19 minutes ago, orangeman said:

Canada vs USA

Japan vs Netherlands

 

For the semi-finals of the women's pursuit. Canada qualifies in 1st! 

So important to have the easier semi-final when there is a big gap between the third and fourth best team, since the semi and the final are on the same day.

[Topicmaster1010 6,548]

Dubreuil Olympic Record!!!

[Monzanator 5,095]

 Dubreuil 34.26 OR.

 

Pawel Zygmunt said this ice looks faster for sprints.

[Topicmaster1010 6,548]

Oh goodness me

[Monzanator 5,095]

 Stolz 33.77!!! 

[Matteo92 361]

Is this the low-land WR?

[Monzanator 5,095]

 Żurek 4th again  Double disaster complete.