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Speed Skating at the Winter Olympic Games 2018


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vor 30 Minuten schrieb heywoodu:

Yay! Sven Kramer's 1st competition and we've moved out of the speed skating oval to watch Kramer arrive outside. Ugh.

Can't believe i missed the highlight of the games ... :(

Did his coach show him the right way this time or did he get lost again (i am asking in the interest of Beckert's medal chances)?

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2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

As expected.. :p 

You have gone far beyond expectations in this sport :d so who do u predict for medals in this race ?

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Just now, thepharoah said:

You have gone far beyond expectations in this sport :d so who do u predict for medalmen this race ?

 

Anyone but Kramer for gold would be a big surprise, and behind him I'm going for Bloemen (although he doesn't seem that strong anymore now that they're not on high altitude) and Pedersen. Then again, the battle for bronze or even silver is rather wide open, with Bloemen, Blokhuijsen, Beckert, Tumolero, Pedersen, Geisreiter and even Michael all having a chance (one bigger than the other of course) to get on the podium behind Kramer.

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By the way, today it's exactly 50 years since the first Dutch gold medal in speed skating :d 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_skating_at_the_1968_Winter_Olympics_–_Women's_1000_metres

 

Just a random fact during the break. 

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4 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Can't believe i missed the highlight of the games ... :(

Did his coach show him the right way this time or did he get lost again (i am asking in the interest of Beckert's medal chances)?

 

Not to worry, if you can watch the Dutch stream you can still undoubtedly see Kramer sitting on an indoor bike! That's sensational too, can't miss that! 

 

And there's a 10k yet to come, he'll enter the stadium another time, 100% sure that'll be shown as well, one highlight after the other! 

 

 

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vor 3 Minuten schrieb heywoodu:

 

Not to worry, if you can watch the Dutch stream you can still undoubtedly see Kramer sitting on an indoor bike! That's sensational too, can't miss that! 

 

And there's a 10k yet to come, he'll enter the stadium another time, 100% sure that'll be shown as well, one highlight after the other! 

 

 

Sorry, i don't have dutch TV, you should upload it to Youtube, for the world to see this historic moment in sports history.

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2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

Not to worry, if you can watch the Dutch stream you can still undoubtedly see Kramer sitting on an indoor bike! That's sensational too, can't miss that! 

 

And there's a 10k yet to come, he'll enter the stadium another time, 100% sure that'll be shown as well, one highlight after the other! 

 

 

 

On CBC online stream, the break has even better content... the same commercials over and over!

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1 minute ago, OlympicsFan said:

Sorry, i don't have dutch TV, you should upload it to Youtube, for the world to see this historic moment in sports history.

I think there will be problems with the rights, considering half the world of course paid millions of dollars for 30 seconds of commercials around these images. 

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