Speed Skating ISU World Cup 2025 - 2026

[heywoodu 15,997]

33.67 vs 33.78 (Koskhin vs Kim)

 

Must have been a super nice race. No idea, NOS didn't show it. Oh no, they broadcast the World Cup of course, they just decided to skip the first two races in the men's 500m (skipping the first 1-2 races in a distance is entirely normal for them) to show an interview, and with that miss one of the very best ever races  

[heywoodu 15,997]

Manganello was an unsympathetic winner, damn  

 

Even going so far as to push Kerkhoff. Manganello is nearly a century old, surely she has heard of basic tactics like not taking turns in a lead group when you have your sprinter team mate behind you in the peloton. Manganello has even been a cyclist, come on, it's not that difficult.

[Topicmaster1010 5,326]

A completely different story in the men's 5000m today from a week ago. 3 skaters went under the track record but not the one's you would've expected.  Casey Dawson takes the win with a 6:01.84 track record and recording two 27 splits.  Sander Eitrem with another podium in a new PB of 6:01.86 and 39 year old  Ted-Jan Bloemen finished 3rd with 6:02.26.

 

Meanwhile, world record holder  Loubineaud finished 4th and  Jilek was down in 7th.

 

Men's distance racing is crazy right now.

[Topicmaster1010 5,326]

Medal for  Chen Ying-Chu 

[Thagard 84]

Kim takes the win in Men's 500.

[Topicmaster1010 5,326]

Silver medal for  France in the men's team pursuit

[SalamAkhi 329]

16 minutes ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

Silver medal for  France in the men's team pursuit

No such thing as pushing, Loubineaud is motoring and Deschamps in the back hanging on for dear life re

There is an outside chance of medal in Milano. 

[Dennis 759]

 1-2-3-4-5 on the women's 500m, which used to be our worst distance for many years 

[heywoodu 15,997]

Once again a shining example of what a nonsense the mixed relay is, at least in it's current format. Doing it based on times is just nonsense, no top country takes it serious and it's just outright dangerous. But the main issue is this thing with making the ranking based on times, despite the races being done in heats instead of 1 vs 1 races. Hungary profited from that obviously, and that's cool for them  

[clemsonbeav 206]

Got this post updated with results from Calgary!