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Speed Skating at the Winter Olympic Games 2018


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6 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

No idea. It's not like Otterspeer has a bigger medal chance than Krol...I mean, both are outsiders, but not much more. Then again, it's about the 1000m only and there Otterspeer might have a bit better chance. But Krol beat him fair and square.. 

Exactly. It makes no sense to me.

 

Well, I hope Verbij will be fit before Pyeongchang as he performs really well under pressure and deserves that spot based on his results during the past two years. 

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The Japanese trials were also this week. With the Japanese being the most dominant skaters on the women's side this year, I was curious who are going to represent them. It seems as if this is the :JPN selection: http://www.skatingjapan.or.jp/image_data/fck/file/2018_Speed/haken/171230_Haken_OWG.pdf

 

Unfortunately, it's all in Japanese, but if I'm not mistaken, this is what it says:

 

Men:

  • Tsubasa Hasegawa: 500m, 1.000m
  • Daichi Yamanaka: 500m, 1.000m
  • Joji Kato: 500m
  • Takuro Oda: 1.000m, 1.500m
  • Shane Williamson: 1.500m, Mass Start, Team Pursuit
  • Shota Nakamura: 1.500m, Mass Start, Team Pursuit
  • Seitaro Ichinohe: 5.000m, Team Pursuit
  • Ryosuke Tsuchiya: 5.000m, Team Pursuit, Mass Start (Reserve)

Masaya Yamada finished 3rd in the 1.000m trials in a PB of 1.09,55, but as Japan can only send 8 different men, they have replaced him with Tsubasa Hasegawa who won the 500m, but only finished 8th on the 1.000m with 1.10,34.

 

Japan is also the first NOC on the reserve list for the 10.000m. Ryosuke Tsuchiya won the 10.000m by quite a margin at the trials, so he will fill in that spot if Japan gets in.

 

Women:

  • Nao Kodaira: 500m, 1.000m, 1.500m
  • Arisa Go: 500m, 1.000m
  • Erina Kamiya: 500m
  • Miho Takagi: 1.000m, 1.500m, 3.000m, Team Pursuit, Mass Start (Reserve)
  • Ayaka Kikuchi: 1.500m, 3.000m, Team Pursuit
  • Ayano Sato: 3.000m, Mass Start, Team Pursuit
  • Misaki Oshigiri: 5.000m
  • Nana Takagi: 5.000m, Mass Start, Team Pursuit

Japan was allowed to send 10 different women, but they only needed 8 to fill all available quota. No real surprises here. Perhaps Nao Kodaira skating the 1.500m is a small surprise as it was Nana Takagi who secured Japan that third Olympic quota. Fuyo Matsuoka was the second Japanese women in the 3.000m/5.000m combined World Cup Ranking, but flopped at the trials with a 9th place on the 3.000m and 4th on the 5.000m.

 

Misaki Oshigiri won the 5.000m with a time of 7:10,68. In :NED that would not have been enough for a top 10 spot. Though the circumstances may be slightly different, the times skated on the other distances were pretty much in line with the times skated in Heerenveen this week.

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:CAN will likely only use 2 spots in 500, 1000, and 1500 for women. The quotas would then fall too :BLR, :ITA, :ITA respectively. As for the men, its likely only 2 spots in the 1500m will be used, meaning :CHN would gain a quota. 

 

More will be know after the trials between Jan 4th and 9th. 

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2 hours ago, intoronto said:

:CAN will likely only use 2 spots in 500, 1000, and 1500 for women. The quotas would then fall too :BLR, :ITA, :ITA respectively. As for the men, its likely only 2 spots in the 1500m will be used, meaning :CHN would gain a quota. 

 

More will be know after the trials between Jan 4th and 9th. 

Kind of odd, I feel like in the past Speed Skating Canada didn’t have dificult qualifying criteria.

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49 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Does anyone know how the US trials, which start today, are going to work? As in, who's going to the Olympics? 

 

No idea, but usually they have the simplest ones, don't they?

 

First X qualify no matter what the name, or if someone fell or whatever. :d

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2 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

No idea, but usually they have the simplest ones, don't they?

 

First X qualify no matter what the name, or if someone fell or whatever. :d

Well yeah, but that seems a bit hard when you've only got X athletes in total who can qualify :p 

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