Short Track Speed Skating at the Winter Olympic Games 2018

[Bohemia 1,447]

50 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Well that explains it, as when I think about it, I've never actually seen any other athlete do that except Bolt.

 

The French men's handball team did it at the 2012 Games on the podium  

[thepharoah 2,413]

On 1/26/2018 at 10:14, Dimast said:

An open letter from Victor An to the IOC President Thomas Bach

 

Dear Mr. President Thomas Bach,

Back in 2002, I got my first opportunity to participate in Olympic Games. The present ones in Korea were supposed to become an especially significant part of my career for several reasons. Two weeks before the start of the Olympics I found out that the Olympic movement does not consider me an athlete, who deserves to be a part of it without even providing an explanation.

During my entire career journey in short track, I’ve never given a reason to doubt my honesty and my integrity, especially when it comes to my victories which I achieved with nothing but my strength and dedication. I have always maintained respect to the sport itself, my rivals, the Olympic movement, and I’ve always complied with the anti-doping legislation. I honestly thought that properly completing all the steps to meet the criteria to be a part of the Olympic Games, a "clean" athlete deserves a right to compete there. However, the IOC commission has decided otherwise and didn’t provide me with reasons why so.

I thoroughly went over the criteria which commission utilized when they made this decision. I can honestly declare that I haven’t done anything that would justify putting me on the list of athletes barred from participating in the Olympic Games.

It is outrageous that there is no concrete reason which explains my exclusion from the Olympics, and furthermore people now view me as an athlete who used doping. After all these years in sports, this verdict of preventing me to be in Olympics has become a symbol of mistrust to me from the side of IOC as well as the reason of mistrust from the side of the entire sport community.

I hope that the IOC will ultimately declare their reason for my exclusion, so I will be able to defend my honor and dignity. I have a full right to believe and hope that I have the trust of my supporters, as well as journalists, after my long journey in short-track and with absolute absence of my fault in this situation, when I’m deprived an opportunity to participate in the Olympics.

Sincerely Yours, Viktor An

 

Naive Victor)) You were banned from the Olympics because you compete for a terrible Russia and won in a terrible Sochi 3 gold medals 

i've just read this letter now and i'm sure if he was here , it'd have been his Olympics too according to what we have seen so far in men's competition 

[OlympicsFan 860]

More than happy for the Shaolin brothers, now i know why i bet 10 points on Hungary winning medals with two different athletes.

[lapaj 421]

First Hungarian gold medal in the history of the WOG`s! I am very happy to saw this!

[OlympicsFan 860]

vor 3 Minuten schrieb lapaj:

First Hungarian gold medal in the history of the WOG`s! I am very happy to saw this!

Congratulations, not good for my predictions, but glad to see Hungary finally winning gold after the disappointing loss by Swaney.

[heywoodu 16,010]

34 minutes ago, thepharoah said:

i've just read this letter now and i'm sure if he was here , it'd have been his Olympics too according to what we have seen so far in men's competition 

 

In which way? By getting free ADV's or something?  

[thepharoah 2,413]

3 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

In which way? By getting free ADV's or something?  

no by winning gold medals if he'd have participated 

Edited February 22, 2018 by thepharoah

[heywoodu 16,010]

6 minutes ago, thepharoah said:

no by winning gold medals if he'd have participated 

Nah, he's not even close to being the superstar he was some years ago anymore  

[thepharoah 2,413]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Nah, he's not even close to being the superstar he was some years ago anymore  

ofc , but at least he would have won 1 and another medal  , we have only double medalist so far in men's individual events which's Lim Hyo-jun who's won gold and bronze , so he had actually a very good chance  apart from all IMO he deserves to participate here cuz it should have been his last Olympics as long as you let Russian athletes to participate and as long he wasn't banned or proven to be doped , it was also better for the whole competition to have such legend participating , so i still find no reason to ban him with others who hadn't proven to be doped from participating here 

[hckošice 15,535]

Men´s 500m

 

1. Wu Dajing   39.584WR, 2. Hwang Dae-Heon 39.854, 3. Lim Hyo-Jun 39.919

 

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