Speed Skating at the Winter Olympic Games 2018

[intoronto 6,944]

got a reallocation

[heywoodu 16,468]

7 minutes ago, intoronto said:

got a reallocation

Too bad Daniela Oltean has retired long ago  

[IoNuTzZ 316]

12 hours ago, intoronto said:

got a reallocation

Alexandra Ianculescu in 500m

[Dimast 88]

22 часа назад, heywoodu сказал:

Including Matthias Vosté, who earlier celebrated qualifying for the Olympics only to realize he had made a mistake and he wasn't qualified. Nice  

 

Finally!! Pavel Kulizhnikov world champion and world record holder dont going to Olympic Winer Games. Because he is from Russia and has a great chance of winning . Very nice 

Edited January 27, 2018 by Dimast

[heywoodu 16,468]

2 minutes ago, Dimast said:

Finally!! Pavel Kulizhnikov world champion and world record holder dont going to Olympic Winer Games. Because he is from Russia. Very nice 

Yes, Kulizhnikov not going to the Olympics has been known for a couple days already actually. Sadly the same goes for Yuskov. 

Edited January 27, 2018 by heywoodu

[Dimast 88]

4 минуты назад, heywoodu сказал:

Yes, Kulizhnikov not going to the Olympics has been known for a couple days already actually. Sadly the same goes for Yuskov. 

 

But this is not politics, right? This IOC is fighting against russian doping

[heywoodu 16,468]

11 minutes ago, Dimast said:

 

But this is not politics, right? This IOC is fighting against russian doping

Oh I'm here for speed skating 

 

It's a real shame Yuskov can't go. Yuskov vs Verweij in the 1500m was promising to be one of the best fights of the entire Games.

 

[LowerSaxony 205]

vor 15 Minuten schrieb Dimast:

 

But this is not politics, right? This IOC is fighting against russian doping

 

If it was for political reasons: How would "the Russian hating western countries" gain political advantages from barring Russian speed skaters from a sporting event?

[Dimast 88]

13 минуты назад, heywoodu сказал:

Oh I'm here for speed skating 

 

It's a real shame Yuskov can't go. Yuskov vs Verweij in the 1500m was promising to be one of the best fights of the entire Games.

 

just because of that? And the fact that the people were preparing for 4 years, waited, and closed the door in front of their nose? For no reason, just because they are Russian and they can win. What is it like? Fighting doping? No, this is not a fight against doping, this is discrimination and those who invented it will pay

[heywoodu 16,468]

2 minutes ago, Dimast said:

just because of that? And the fact that the people were preparing for 4 years, waited, and closed the door in front of their nose? For no reason, just because they are Russian and they can win. What is it like? Fighting doping? No, this is not a fight against doping, this is discrimination and those who invented it will pay

Like I said, I'm here for the speed skating discussion (we do have both a politics and doping thread, where this kind of thing fits better)

 

And yes, looking at the sport, what this thread is about, it's a huge shame Yuskov won't be there. Kulizhnikov has already hurt the sport before, so I'm having less problems with that (even though it'd be nice to see 11 instead of 10 potential gold medal winners), plus the 500m is entirely open anyway, with or without Kulizhnikov. Shikhova not being there is a shame as well.