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Speed Skating at the Winter Olympic Games 2018

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2 hours ago, Quasit said:

"Speed" and "Skating" belong together like "Winter" and "Olympics" in this case, at least for me. You have successfully broken my harmony. :p

 

Winter Olympics --> Name of an event

Speed skating --> Just words

 

It's weird to write capital letter when talking about speed skating in a sentence, it's weird to have two capital letters in a thread title. So I'm happy it's not there, and I'm praying that it stays like this. Prepare for rants if someone changes this :p 

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Awful Olympics for our speed skating team.

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1 minute ago, Gianlu33 said:

We have any streaming for this?

 

It should be on the NOS website (well, it is :p). I wasn't home today (so I watched it on the NOS app) but I will post the link tomorrow when it starts :)

 

 

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With the minor addition that there is still the option for certain (big) names to be chosen if for example they were on their way to winning but fell. 

 sure, but I guess there are quite a few chances something similar happens (at least in the longer distances...in the 500m that's always possible)...

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It should be on the NOS website (well, it is :p). I wasn't home today (so I watched it on the NOS app) but I will post the link tomorrow when it starts :)

 

 

 

if they go live, all competition times are reported on the uitslagen page I linked before...

 

p.s. @gianlu33

remember...you need a VPN (even a free one like Hola) in order to watch the NOS live broadcast (here in Italy, of course)...:evil:;)

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2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

Winter Olympics --> Name of an event

Speed skating --> Just words

 

It's weird to write capital letter when talking about speed skating in a sentence, it's weird to have two capital letters in a thread title. So I'm happy it's not there, and I'm praying that it stays like this. Prepare for rants if someone changes this :p 

...and for some, like me, Speed Skating is also the name of an event. It's not worth arguing about, it's all about personal opinion. "xx" or "XX" looks better than "Xx" or "xX". :p

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Blokhuijsen and de Vrues? :dunno: I doubt they can win 5000m medals (what would already put NED two medals behind their 2014 tally...).

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meanwhile with that kind of scheme I don't know if there will be place in the team for even a single 500m only specialist (among the girls, obviously)...

 

Which is not really a problem. I mean, sad for them of course, but really Ter Mors is probably the only one who might have a medal shot there (meaning, on a perfect day for her).

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Blokhuijsen and de Vrues? :dunno: I doubt they can win 5000m medals (what would already put NED two medals behind their 2014 tally...).

I don't know why not. Especially Blokhuijsen has shown more than once to be a very, very capable world-class 5k skater. A lot of trouble in the past years, but he's back. And with a race like today, it'd be hard for anyone to beat De Vries (the question of course is whether he will repeat this performance, but hey, it's still better than Jorrit 'if I'm selected as a reserve for the team pursuit, I'd rather not go at all!!' Bergsma. Plus, the Netherlands not being a lock-in for 2-3 medals in the 5k increases the chances for a Peter Michael stunt :cheer:

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Blokhuijsen and de Vrues? :dunno: I doubt they can win 5000m medals (what would already put NED two medals behind their 2014 tally...).

The Netherlands is not going to be anywhere it's once in a generation 2014 performance. Japan is currently the strongest nation on the women's side and will probably win 3 golds (500, 1000, 1500 and team pursuit) and the men's team, while still the best in the world, isn't as dominant as it was in 2014.

 

I'll go on a limb here and say that I'm going to be very surprised if the Dutch get a sweep.

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