Short Track Speed Skating at the Winter Olympic Games 2018

[heywoodu 15,145]

Just now, thepharoah said:

And what the Korean did wrong according to your commentator ? 

Nothing, he just completely missed that Hwang actually passed Zvejnieks in the last meters and only after a replay some minutes later saw it  

[heywoodu 15,145]

Daan Bradbury 

[dcro 10,210]

Short track is just so annoying...

[heywoodu 15,145]

Penalty for Liu, you don't see that coming. Also Elise Christie fell, and water is wet. 

[thepharoah 2,405]

Personally iam with having a bigger size of track or having less players in each heat , other wise not always the best will win , for example the Chinese who set WR in quarters could be easily fall or disqualified next race it's totally unfair IMO 

Edited February 22, 2018 by thepharoah

[dcro 10,210]

Or you should have an anarchy since having so many athletes on a tiny track is just as ridiculous.

[heywoodu 15,145]

1 minute ago, thepharoah said:

Personally iam with having a bigger size of track or having less players in each heat , other wise not always the best will win , for example the Chinese who set WE in quarters could be easily fall or disqualified next race it's totally unfair IMO 

That's not unfair, that's part of the sport. One could have a Formula 1 race where it's just a 300km long straight line and only 3 drivers, but it's not simply about who drives the fastest and neither is short track about who skates the fastest. It's also about positioning and things like that.

[heywoodu 15,145]

I don't think short track skaters will like their sport anymore when their sport is basically turned upside down and into a whole different game  And rightly so, after all, this is what they want

[thepharoah 2,405]

6 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

That's not unfair, that's part of the sport. One could have a Formula 1 race where it's just a 300km long straight line and only 3 drivers, but it's not simply about who drives the fastest and neither is short track about who skates the fastest. It's also about positioning and things like that.

I don't see this no. Of crushes in Formula 1 , here wee see this every race , the most thing I don't like here is that u depend on referees much and I don't think they are always taking the right decision , it's very fun to watch on this condition ofc,  but iam not sure that these disqualified athletes for no reason feel that fun

Edited February 22, 2018 by thepharoah

[heywoodu 15,145]

Just now, thepharoah said:

I don't see this no. Of crushes in Formula 1 , here wee see this every race , the most thing I don't like here is that u depend on referees much and I don't think they are always taking the right decision , it's very fun to each on this condition ofc,  but iam not sure that these disqualified athletes for no reason feel that fun

Not at that moment, but mostly they accept it. I remember a DQ which had quite some discussion, but the athlete was clear: "Yeah it sucks, but this is part of our sport and if I can't handle that, I should go do something else."