Speed Skating ISU World Championships 2021

[Dennis 759]

9 minutes ago, CCB said:

Well, at the women's side Femke Kok  is the favourite, but like Patrick Roest today she has only something to lose. In addition, she has a bad draw, finishing in the outside lane. I predict Angelina Golikova   for the win. The men's competition will be close, but will find Pawel Kuliznhikov on top of the ranking. Laurent Dubreuil  also has a good chance.

 

Team pursuit women:  for sure.

Team pursuit men:  .

Yeah, outside lane in the final pair is probably the poorest draw she could have, but Femke Kok competes very well under pressure. Golikova also came closer and closer every world cup race, so yeah, she could very well win. Perhaps Herzog can surprise and become world champion for the second time. Kok and Herzog will be the ones I'm going to root for tomorrow.

Team pursuits were more wishful thinking from my side. I think the Dutch teams are the strongest on paper when you look at the individual skaters and what times they can skate on the 1.500/3.000/5.000 metres, but other teams are better at working together. I'm really interested to see how the tougher circumstances will impact the skaters compared to the previous world cups, especially skaters like Blondin, Golubeva, Wüst and Howe who are better at the 1.500m than at the longer distances. 

[heywoodu 16,004]

12 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Sabliková lost by 0.1

So close to finally getting a gold medal  

[heywoodu 16,004]

Meanwhile Sven Kramer has ended his season after his race in which he couldn't even come close to a decent performance due to a back injury.

[heywoodu 16,004]

6 minutes ago, Dennis said:

Yeah, outside lane in the final pair is probably the poorest draw she could have

Just now I realize the world championships still have this insane format in the 500m...  

[rafalgorka 1,808]

On 10/02/2021 at 21:25, CCB said:

Nice to read your predictions. For me Antoinette de Jong  and Natalia Voronina  are the clear favourites at the women's side, Nils van der Poel   will win the men's race tomorrow, although I hope for Patrick Roest  that he can finally become world champion on a single distance.

@CCB how did you know that??? ;-)))

Please don't share your tips for next events with us - YOU WILL SPOIL ALL THE FUN !!! ;-)

 

I'm joking, ofc ;-)

[Olympian1010 8,230]

Does anyone know where streaming/replays can be found? There’s nothing on the ISU YouTube page, or on the Olympic Channel.

[rafalgorka 1,808]

3 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Does anyone know where streaming/replays can be found? There’s nothing on the ISU YouTube page, or on the Olympic Channel.

EurosportPlayer in Poland has it.

[Dennis 759]

3/3 of today’s winners predicted correctly. Let’s go Femke! 

[Dennis 759]

That was an impressive race by Golikova from start to finish! 

[rybak 3,303]

I missed today races  Did anyone know if someone from our men's team falled? It can be only one reason why they finished 40 seconds behind first Netherlands.