Speed Skating ISU Single Distances World Championships 2017

[dcro 10,210]

This looks bad.

[dcro 10,210]

Dutch barely trolled their way in front of New Zealand.

[heywoodu 16,004]

4 minutes ago, dcro said:

Dutch barely trolled their way in front of New Zealand.

Yeah 

 

So close!

[dcro 10,210]

Medals for and

 

Name of the country obviously has to start with N to be on the podium.

[dcro 10,210]

5 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Yeah 

 

So close!

 

But after many championships Shane Dobbin finally gets a medal.

[rybak 3,303]

How a bad results for our team pursuits and Waś 

[heywoodu 16,004]

Here we go, another four distances.

 

Women's 5000m: Sablikova going for her 9th consecutive gold, utterly incredibly. Probably Kleibeuker vs De Jong for silver.

 

Men's 1000m: Nuis could finally not choke when it matters and do what he should do today, which is win. Verbij is the big guy for silver, with a whole bunch of people like Davis, Lorentzen, De Haitre, Mantia etc close behind.

 

Women's 1000m: That should be Bergsma for the gold, with Leenstra, Zhang, Kodaira behind her.

 

Men's 10.000m: Promises to be one of the most awesome fights of the championships: Bloemen in pair 4 (WR-holder), Kramer in pair 5, Bergsma in pair 6...the suggestion of a world record is all over the media.

Edited February 11, 2017 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 16,004]

Huge personal best 7:03 for Zueva 

 

This is going to go very, very fast later on. I'm predicting well under 6:50 for Sablikova  

[heywoodu 16,004]

Fantastic finish between Isabelle Weidemann and Carien Kleibeuker  

 

6:59.75 vs 6:59.79 with young Weidemann  winning and getting under 7 minutes for the first time 

 

And damn, talk about a well-paced race!

 

 

 

Edited February 11, 2017 by heywoodu

[dcro 10,210]

Crazy time for Yurakova.