Speed Skating at the Winter Olympic Games 2018

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[heywoodu 15,335]

  On 2/10/2018 at 12:36 PM, dcro said:

 

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Event 1 and it's a Dutch sweep  Oh boy.. 

 

Mostly Takagi kinda disappointed, the rest (apart from Sablikova, who for once maybe told the truth) is not really unexpected. 

Edited February 10, 2018 by heywoodu

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  On 2/10/2018 at 12:46 PM, dcro said:

 

It's Visser and van der Weijden for 5000m, unless they change (which I doubt).

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Very good (for Pechstein) or sad (for Achter...), depends on who's side you are on, but i guess given all of them are dutch, they will probably still find a way to medal.

[orangeman 2,020]

People say they should get rid of women's hockey because only Canada and the USA can win.  Well, statistically speaking, the Dutch have won a greater share of the total medals in speed skating in the last two Olympics than CAN and USA have in women's hockey combined.  So maybe we should eliminate speed skating since it is not so competitive?  

Edited February 10, 2018 by orangeman

[heywoodu 15,335]

  On 2/10/2018 at 2:01 PM, orangeman said:

People say they should get rid of women's hockey because only Canada and the USA can win.  Well, statistically speaking, the Dutch have won a greater share of the total medals in speed skating in the last two Olympics than CAN and USA have in women's hockey combined.  So maybe we should eliminate speed skating since it is not so competitive?  

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Better not eliminate either of them  

[dcro 10,210]

Ah, this is tiring. I've never heard someone proposing to drop track cycling.

 

After the British domination in 2012 they even increased the number of athletes that the big nations could enter in some events.

[orangeman 2,020]

  On 2/10/2018 at 2:15 PM, dcro said:

Ah, this is tiring. I've never heard someone proposing to drop track cycling.

 

After the British domination in 2012 they even increased the number of athletes that the big nations could enter in some events.

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I was just kidding, of course.  

[hckošice 15,101]

  On 2/10/2018 at 12:47 PM, heywoodu said:

Event 1 and it's a Dutch sweep

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Women´s 3000m

 

1. Carlijn Achtereekte 3:59.21, 2. Ireen Wust 3:59.29, 3. Antoinette de Jong 4:00.02

 

Full Results HERE

 

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