Speed Skating ISU European Championships 2018

[heywoodu 15,145]

My main fear with these events is that it will end up taking away the events that have made speed skating speed skating for so long. Short track skating is a different sport than long track and so is mass start or these events where people are riding together. 

 

100% against it  

[NearPup 3,051]

3 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

My main fear with these events is that it will end up taking away the events that have made speed skating speed skating for so long. Short track skating is a different sport than long track and so is mass start or these events where people are riding together. 

 

100% against it  

I think the team pursuit / team sprint are still in the spirit of long track (I can't really think of a better team format for speed skating), but I agree that the mass start feels very out of place.

[Quasit 865]

21 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

My main fear with these events is that it will end up taking away the events that have made speed skating speed skating for so long. Short track skating is a different sport than long track and so is mass start or these events where people are riding together. 

 

100% against it  

Been discussing this with somebody before and it looks like mass starts become the norm now for the general TV audience with limited understanding. That's why we won't see the 50km in Cross-Country with intervals anymore.

"Who crosses the finish line first, wins" is an easy-to-understand concept. Hopefully there won't be Ski Jumping or Luge mass starts.

Edited January 6, 2018 by Quasit

[heywoodu 15,145]

Apparently in the men's mass start, everyone sprinted one lap too late 

 

Blokhuijsen won the sprint, but Silovs got the win because he crossed the finish first (one lap before the sprint). 

 

Luckily ISU didn't at the mass start to the Olympics yet, before clearing up all kinds of things like this. Oh wait. 

[rybak 3,218]

Bronze for us men't team sprint  

[heywoodu 15,145]

The Dutch team is going to file a protest  

[Gianlu33 4,574]

9 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

The Dutch team is going to file a protest  

They will lost it, I guess  You killed the Belarusian guy

 

[Dennis 712]

Still no official results on the ISU results page, which are normally updated during the competition.

[Gianlu33 4,574]

3 minutes ago, Dennis said:

Still no official results on the ISU results page, which are normally updated during the competition.

Nope, mass start are always update whit big delay

[Dennis 712]

Just now, Gianlu33 said:

Nope, mass start are always update whit big delay

Aah okay, still, the women's results were on there pretty quickly after the competition, even though there were more participants.