Speed Skating ISU Single Distances World Championships 2017

[heywoodu 15,309]

Tomorrow the world single distance championships in Gangneun (the Olympic track) will get underway 

 

Let's go De Jong and Zueva 

 

 

Let's go TJ Flowers ('bloemen' = 'flowers' in Dutch  ) and Peter Michael 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[dcro 10,210]

  On 2/8/2017 at 6:17 PM, heywoodu said:

 

Let's go De Jong

 

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Wait, what? You are actually cheering for a Dutch in speed skating?

[heywoodu 15,309]

  On 2/8/2017 at 6:37 PM, dcro said:

 

Wait, what? You are actually cheering for a Dutch in speed skating?

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How can I not cheer for Antoinette? 

 

Wüst is ok, but nothing special if she wins, Kramer and Bergsma are both a bit...meh, not my kind of athletes  

[heywoodu 15,309]

I seriously can't wait for the 10k, I hope Kramer and Bergsma will go head-to-head there as well so we'll see an epic battle 

[heywoodu 15,309]

Wüst beats Sablikova 

[dcro 10,210]

Two medals for the Dutch in 3000m. That already puts them ahead of their Sochi 2014 count.

[heywoodu 15,309]

Oh come on, you don't start a medal ceremony by giving the gold medal first...!! 

 

Well, more like a coin ceremony. 

[heywoodu 15,309]

Rumours are the medals have "3000m men" engraved on them 

[dcro 10,210]

  On 2/9/2017 at 9:26 AM, heywoodu said:

Oh come on, you don't start a medal ceremony by giving the gold medal first...!! 

 

Well, more like a coin ceremony. 

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That was the practice at most of the Olympics (as recently as 2000/2002).

[heywoodu 15,309]

  On 2/9/2017 at 9:30 AM, dcro said:

 

That was the practice at most of the Olympics (as recently as 2000/2002).

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Yeah, and it's absolutely awful.

 

The reactions you get from people watching it are like this then:

 

Gold: 

 

Silver:

 

Bronze: Cool for you but let's move on with the schedule

 

 

 

While in a normal order, you'd get this:

 

Bronze: 

 

Silver: 

 

Gold: