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The season is finally getting underway for real :woohoo::woohoo:

 

World Cup in Harbin, China, started earlier today with the B-division in three distances. Starting in 2 minutes, these three distances will have the A-divisions (the real deal): women's 500m, men's 5000m (let's go Peter Michael :woohoo:), women's 3000m. 

 

In case anyone is interested, Dutch public TV shows all A-divisions live here (don't know if it works outside NED) :p

http://nos.nl/livestream/2141922-schaatsen-wb-harbin.html

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3 hours ago, heywoodu said:

In case anyone is interested, Dutch public TV shows all A-divisions live here (don't know if it works outside NED) :p

http://nos.nl/livestream/2141922-schaatsen-wb-harbin.html

 

Us, mere mortals, have ISU channel for that. :p

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6 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Us, mere mortals, have ISU channel for that. :p

Oh, didn't know that existed too :d 

 

Edit: Wait, I do. I just forgot. I sometimes watch it when the most annoying of our annoying commentators is spewing his boring crap on the Dutch stream :p 

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Three Colombians in Harbin tomorrow :d 

 

Pedro Causil in the 500m B-division, just like last season. He seems to have improved a lot, so I hope he can qualify for the A-division. Andres Campo will debut in the mass start A-division after being in one B-race last season and Daniel Zapata will be in the mass start B-division :) 

http://live.isuresults.eu/2016-2017/harbin/

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As for today: little surprising win for Nao Kodaira in the women's 500m, where she and compatriot Maki Tsuji showed strong form already. All Dutch girls, Vanessa Herzog (ex-Bittner) and Hong Zhang were somewhat disappointing. 

 

Martina Sablikova of course won the 3000m, although Marije Joling, Ivanie Blondin and Antoinette de Jong gave a good fight. So did Ireen Wüst in a direct race against Sablikova, but as always, she lost too much time in the last 2 laps (she was ahead until then) :p 

 

Sven Kramer won the 5000m after of course a fight with Jorrit Bergsma :p  Erik Jan Kooiman had a nice fight with the very talented New Zealander Peter Michael and took 3rd place. 

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12 minutes ago, rybak said:

I don't know if it's an mistake or true (at least no news in our media) but it looks like Sebastian Druszkiewicz changed nationality to Czech :(

 

Yes he got Czech citizenship last year but ISU yet didn´t allowed him to compete untill this season.

 

edit: I see that he already competedlast January in Stavanger.

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11 minutes ago, rybak said:

I don't know if it's an mistake or true (at least no news in our media) but it looks like Sebastian Druszkiewicz changed nationality to Czech :(

He already competed for CZE since last season. Well, he didn't compete at all in all of 2015, but at the end of last season he started competing for CZE. I guess because he has been a member of Sablikova's team for quite a while now.

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3 minuty temu, hckosice napisał:

 

Yes he got Czech citizenship last year but ISU yet heven´t allowed him to compete untill this season.

 

2 minuty temu, heywoodu napisał:

He already competed for CZE since last season. Well, he didn't compete at all in all of 2015, but at the end of last season he started competing for CZE. I guess because he has been a member of Sablikova's team for quite a while now.

 

So sad, we lost good skater :( Hopefully he will feel good among Czechs and will get more chances for competing in World Cups.

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4 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

because he has been a member of Sablikova's team for quite a while now.

 

exactly, it´s the reason I found in many czech articles about his Nationality changements reasons

 

http://sport.idnes.cz/rychlobruslar-druszkiewicz-cesko-d5w-/sporty.aspx?c=A151209_153437_sporty_tof

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