Asian Winter Games 2017

[intoronto 5,767]

Malaysia is in the A final of the men's 5000m relay... and this is due to dq's of two teams. So they are going to be in the final 4 (barring a dq). So if one of the big 3 are disqualified then Malaysia will win an unlikely medal!

[dcro 10,210]

Someone was looking for a shortcut

 

[heywoodu 15,249]

17 minutes ago, dcro said:

Someone was looking for a shortcut

 

Or the courses were marked in a way that inexperienced competitors found it hard to find the right way  

[Quasit 865]

No sweeps allowed? What a ridiculous rule is that?

[heywoodu 15,249]

9 minutes ago, Quasit said:

No sweeps allowed? What a ridiculous rule is that?

Where did you see that?  

[Quasit 865]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Where did you see that?  

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_skating_at_the_2017_Asian_Winter_Games_–_Results#Women.27s_1500_metres

[heywoodu 15,249]

4 minutes ago, Quasit said:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_skating_at_the_2017_Asian_Winter_Games_–_Results#Women.27s_1500_metres

That's odd, almost as odd as seeing Hong Zhang race a 1500m  

[Griff88 1,968]

Pretty sad in women's figure skating.. Almost everyone in the first batch touched the ice (including ours...)

Edited February 23, 2017 by Griff88

[MHSN 3,645]

^^ OCA has this rule for a long long time, even for the summer Asian Games. actually in most events they limit the number of athletes per nation to two to avoid such situations, they did that 6 years ago in Kazakhstan I don't know why they changed it for the winter games probably because the number of athletes in some events could be too low. (for example in Kazakhstan we had only 4 skier starting the mass start event !!)

 

for the summer Games I think only in Shooting, Golf and Bowling we have more than 2 athletes per nation and that's because they need that for the team event ! even in road cycling we have only 2 per team !!

[Quasit 865]

54 minutes ago, MHSN said:

^^ OCA has this rule for a long long time, even for the summer Asian Games. actually in most events they limit the number of athletes per nation to two to avoid such situations, they did that 6 years ago in Kazakhstan I don't know why they changed it for the winter games probably because the number of athletes in some events could be too low. (for example in Kazakhstan we had only 4 skier starting the mass start event !!)

 

for the summer Games I think only in Shooting, Golf and Bowling we have more than 2 athletes per nation and that's because they need that for the team event ! even in road cycling we have only 2 per team !!

 

It's a silly rule.