Short Track Speed Skating ISU World Tour 2025 - 2026

[clemsonbeav 206]

Stoddard looking good with three bronzes.  KSG left without a medal this time...but we'll see you next weekend!   

[clemsonbeav 206]

Updated Post 2 with Results.

 

Womens 1000 and 1500 had the same podium.

 

Medal Count at Montreal 1:

Federation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Rep. of Korea	3	4	0	7
Canada	3	1	3	7
Netherlands	1	2	0	3
China	1	1	2	4
Italy	1	1	1	3
USA	0	0	3	3

 

Edited October 12 by clemsonbeav

[Jan Linha 597]

So I checked the current world ranking of all the disciplines on the ISU website. But it seems it has not been updated correctly as many do not have there any recorded performance at the first stage in Canada and they competed there.....

[Jan Linha 597]

Looks like it's been updated. 

[intoronto 6,387]

Anyone fancy doing a quota simulation for the Olympics?

[Topicmaster1010 5,326]

3 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Anyone fancy doing a quota simulation for the Olympics?

It'll be up in an hour

Edited October 13 by Topicmaster1010

[intoronto 6,387]

1 minute ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

It'll be up in an hour

[SalamAkhi 329]

So Fercoq gets past the prelims in the 500m, is illegally brought down in the heats while he was taking up the third spot (could even have secured a q by time) so he's assigned ... a 4th position on the line for the repêchage heat, behind guys who finished 4th in their prelim race. Make it make sense please. 

The starting position draw is do dumb. Why consider sheer time and not the spot you finish in first ? Why penalize athletes with a terrible position on the line (even if you manage to climb back up your time will be shit and you'll get the same awful position in the next round, against better athletes) though they were "no time" through no fault of their own ? 

 

The advancement system is not that bright either. You get free bye if you're tripped in the battle for second in a race where only the first gets the Q, but you're not advanced if you were fighting for third when the race offer 2 Q.

Edited October 16 by SalamAkhi

[CCB 607]

10 hours ago, SalamAkhi said:

So Fercoq gets past the prelims in the 500m, is illegally brought down in the heats while he was taking up the third spot (could even have secured a q by time) so he's assigned ... a 4th position on the line for the repêchage heat, behind guys who finished 4th in their prelim race. Make it make sense please. 

The starting position draw is do dumb. Why consider sheer time and not the spot you finish in first ? Why penalize athletes with a terrible position on the line (even if you manage to climb back up your time will be shit and you'll get the same awful position in the next round, against better athletes) though they were "no time" through no fault of their own ? 

 

The advancement system is not that bright either. You get free bye if you're tripped in the battle for second in a race where only the first gets the Q, but you're not advanced if you were fighting for third when the race offer 2 Q.

That's so right. For a normal person, the rules are sometimes truly incomprehensible. Therefore I think it's a stupid sport. And yet, I still enjoy watching it .

[CCB 607]

Unfortunately Jens van 't Wout is still 'a little sick'. I predict he will withdraw today. His 1.500 metres in particular was very bad. Also on the 500 metres he crossed the finish line as if he just sprinted a whole marathon.

 

It's a shame he's missing out on so many points in these first two World Cups, as that will give him a poor starting position in the 500 metres at the Games.