Speed Skating 2016 - 2017 Discussion Thread

[VolleyRuller96 264]

Omg, we are 10 out of 11 teams 

[heywoodu 15,353]

  On 11/12/2016 at 11:19 AM, VolleyRuller96 said:

Wow, pretty nice results for  in men's team 1500 so far 2nd place of 5 teams so far in their historic debut (?) in group A

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I just noticed it's not actually they're debut  

 

They competed in the 2013-14 season (both Dobbin brothers once with Daniel Nation and once with Reyon Kay), but there were no A/B-divisions in the team pursuit at that time  

[dcro 10,210]

116 year old competing.

 

[heywoodu 15,353]

Pedro Causil finished 9th in the B-division with another big improvement in his time, which means the very first Colombian World Cup point ever in a normal event (distances instead of that completely senseless mass start) 

[dareza 911]

  On 11/13/2016 at 9:12 AM, heywoodu said:

Pedro Causil finished 9th in the B-division with another big improvement in his time, which means the very first Colombian World Cup point ever in a normal event (distances instead of that completely senseless mass start) 

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but your team again will win million medals 2018

[heywoodu 15,353]

  On 11/13/2016 at 9:16 AM, dareza said:

but your team again will win million medals 2018

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I really hope we will completely dominate the mass start...I know it won't happen, but if it does, that would be a great chance to get rid of that idiot event immediatly 

 

And realistically speaking, a repeat of Sochi is of course extremely unlikely  

Edited November 13, 2016 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 15,353]

Roman Krech finishes 11th and Kulizhnikov wins. We're back to normal  

[dareza 911]

Mika Poutala is good. He always was good or?

[dcro 10,210]

  On 11/13/2016 at 9:17 AM, heywoodu said:

And realistically speaking, a repeat of Sochi is of course extremely unlikely  

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I don't think that  anyone expected Netherlands to do so well in Sochi so... I don't see how it is extremely unlikely now.

Edited November 13, 2016 by dcro

[heywoodu 15,353]

  On 11/13/2016 at 9:21 AM, dareza said:

Mika Poutala is good. He always was good or?

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He has been very good for a very long time, with ups and downs in between  

 

Sort of like a B-version of Pekka Koskela, who was sometimes amazing (like all of a sudden breaking the 1000m WR when nobody was even paying real attention), and in other times just didn't seem interested and finished like 15th.