Short Track Speed Skating 2017 - 2018 Discussion Thread

[intoronto 6,599]

52 minutes ago, Vojthas said:

How can third or second be fourth?

They give all first ranked athletes a quota spot (to the country). When it came down to the 1500m some countries had 3 athletes already ranked higher and therefore cannot receive a quota.

 

Edit: My bad, I just read the document again and it says spots are given to NOCs not athletes... so it appears yours is correct.

Edited November 19, 2017 by intoronto

[Vojthas 949]

On 19.11.2017 at 23:26, intoronto said:

They give all first ranked athletes a quota spot (to the country). When it came down to the 1500m some countries had 3 athletes already ranked higher and therefore cannot receive a quota.

 

Edit: My bad, I just read the document again and it says spots are given to NOCs not athletes... so it appears yours is correct.

Thanks God, I thought, that four years after my school finishing exams I already forgot the basic rules of maths

[Dunadan 1,103]

ISU published the quotas

http://isu.org/communications

 

 

 

 

Edited November 23, 2017 by Dunadan

[heywoodu 16,137]

 

Schedule in local time:

 

 

And as always, (live) results, draws and so on can be found seconds after the races on the official website: http://shorttrack.sportresult.com/

[intoronto 6,599]

Charles Hamelin 

[rybak 3,329]

Yesterday Natalia Maliszewska won silver medal on 500m, out first ever medal in short track world championships  Pity that she couldn't take medal at Olympics...

[NearPup 3,614]

3 hours ago, intoronto said:

Charles Hamelin 

Glad he finally got the last major title that was missing from his resume. He's definitively one of the greats.

 

I'd say this is a great way to end his career, but he decided to postpone retirement.

Edited March 18, 2018 by NearPup

[DaniSRB 899]

John-Henry Krueger, Olympic short track medalist, eyes Hungary

http://olympics.nbcsports.com/2018/04/30/john-henry-krueger-short-track-speed-skating-hungary/

[intoronto 6,599]

33 minutes ago, DaniSRB said:

John-Henry Krueger, Olympic short track medalist, eyes Hungary

http://olympics.nbcsports.com/2018/04/30/john-henry-krueger-short-track-speed-skating-hungary/

Welcome Hungary to the club of buying athletes.

[DaniSRB 899]

4 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Welcome Hungary to the club of buying athletes.

if i am not wrong in article is mentioned that Hungary is country of his ancestors

 

but more weird is that in USA such high class athletes have economic problems