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Speed Skating 2016 - 2017 Discussion Thread


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Omg, we are 10 out of 11 teams :facepalm:

My favourite Volleyball position: LIBERO. You ask why? Look here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyIOarNAONk

 

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3 hours ago, VolleyRuller96 said:

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

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

 

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 :p 

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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) :bowdown:

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3 minutes ago, 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) :bowdown:

but your team again will win million medals 2018 :d

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1 minute ago, dareza said:

but your team again will win million medals 2018 :d

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 :lol:

 

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

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5 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

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

 

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. :p

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2 minutes ago, dareza said:

Mika Poutala is good. He always was good or?

 

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

 

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. 

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