Speed Skating ISU Single Distances World Championships 2017

[heywoodu 16,004]

Ireen Wüst on Dutch TV right now: "I don't know if you can see it on the camera, but I think I've got Sven Kramer's medal....look, world champion, 5000m men"  

[dcro 10,210]

3 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

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: 

 

To be honest, I get bored by medal ceremonies at big events, whatever the order is.

 

That's why for example I prefer the first few days of Athletics Worlds, because the last two days are just ceremony after ceremony.

[heywoodu 16,004]

Wüst's medal:

 

 

 

[heywoodu 16,004]

2 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

To be honest, I get bored by medal ceremonies at big events, whatever the order is.

 

That's why for example I prefer the first few days of Athletics Worlds, because the last two days are just ceremony after ceremony.

I like them as long as they do it in the right order and, just as important, shortly after the event so you can still have the athletes with their emotions and being tired and everything instead of many hours later. 

[dcro 10,210]

It's a victory for Thorup

[dcro 10,210]

And still in the lead.

[dcro 10,210]

Great race for Sverre

[heywoodu 16,004]

6:21.78 for Andrea Giovannini....for the second time this season...that's 0.01 slower than his personal best, ouch  

[heywoodu 16,004]

Let's clean up the ice and bring out the big guns, if Pedersen and Belchos and Contin are well under 6:20, this could end up being a very fast race for gold 

[heywoodu 16,004]

Quite a big discussion and big deal about 'Windturbinegate', with artificial wind being created inside the hall which makes times faster