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Short Track Speed Skating 2017 - 2018 Discussion Thread


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33 minutes ago, Vojthas said:

That's my simulation of Olympic quotas after Budapest. If you can please check, if I'm correct.

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Looks good but you have Kazakhstan down twice for men!

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by the way, Min Jeon Choi won all 3 individual disciplines, adding today the 1000m to yesterday's 500m and 1500m...

and of course she and her teammates won also the women's relay...

 

among the boys, Lim added another tally to the Korean gold medals list, but a least we had a different winner in the men's relay (only the second overall in the entire weekend): Canada, in fact, took the last event of the competition just ahead of China and Japan...

 

for Italy, good things have been shown by Arianna Fontana and in the women's relay (they were just unlucky in the semifinals, when, without the accident involving also the Dutch girls, they could have easily made the last 4)...

meanwhile the guys were an absolute disaster, with no one capable of going beyond round #2 individually and out in the heats in the relay...

 

overall, not good news for the sport of short track speedskating looking at the upcoming Olympics...we're probably going to see a Korea-only show in Gangneung...

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21 minutes ago, phelps said:

by the way, Min Jeon Choi won all 3 individual disciplines, adding today the 1000m to yesterday's 500m and 1500m...

and of course she and her teammates won also the women's relay...

 

among the boys, Lim added another tally to the Korean gold medals list, but a least we had a different winner in the men's relay (only the second overall in the entire weekend): Canada, in fact, took the last event of the competition just ahead of China and Japan...

 

for Italy, good things have been shown by Arianna Fontana and in the women's relay (they were just unlucky in the semifinals, when, without the accident involving also the Dutch girls, they could have easily made the last 4)...

meanwhile the guys were an absolute disaster, with no one capable of going beyond round #2 individually and out in the heats in the relay...

 

overall, not good news for the sport of short track speedskating looking at the upcoming Olympics...we're probably going to see a Korea-only show in Gangneung...

For now they have to to deliver under the insane home pressure. I bet most of their main rivals are barely even close to top shape yet this early.

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6 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

For now they have to to deliver under the insane home pressure. I bet most of their main rivals are barely even close to top shape yet this early.

 

I hope so...

but I also fear what could be in 4 and a half months time...

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in Dordrecht, very good day 1 for the Italian women (not only the usual suspect Arianna Fontana)...

and once again very bad, actually oscene day at the officie for the boys...

however, today it's the key day...the relay heats are in fact the main goal for us (and not only for us)...

another fail by the boys would mean a pretty sure elimination from the Olympic race as a full team...

meanwhile another top 8 for the girls would be very important to consolidate our position in the Olympic ranking for the women's relay...:fingers:

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Choi won again! She is really on fire this season.. 

Good results for our in women's 500m, Arianna Fontana and Martina Valcepina are in semifinals :cheer: 

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