Speed Skating ISU Allround World Championships 2018

[heywoodu 16,004]

Pedersen wtf 

 

[heywoodu 16,004]

Well, this is an anti-climax of absolutely epic proportions 

[heywoodu 16,004]

This is bizarre. Roest world champion, yay. 

[dcro 10,210]

19 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

This is bizarre. Roest world champion, yay. 

 

Wait, what? How?! 

 

Sadly I couldn't stay for the last two pairs.

[heywoodu 16,004]

1 minute ago, dcro said:

 

Wait, what? How?! 

 

Sadly I couldn't stay for the last two pairs.

 

Pedersen was 'allowed' to lose 7 seconds (a bit more), but after almost 7km he was 6-7 seconds faster than Roest, so there was no excitement whatsoever about who would win. Until all of a sudden, Pedersen crashed into the boarding. He stayed down for a bit (laptime of 50 seconds because of that), got back up and continued in a rather impressive but hopeless way, eventually still beating Kramer but losing 15 seconds to Roest.

Edited March 11, 2018 by heywoodu

[dcro 10,210]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

 

Pedersen was 'allowed' to lose 7 seconds (a bit more), but after almost 7km he was 6-7 seconds faster than Roest, so there was no excitement whatsoever about who would win. Until all of a sudden, Pedersen crashed into the boarding. He stayed down for a bit (laptime of 50 seconds because of that), got back up and continued in a rather impressive but hopeless way, eventually still beating Kramer but losing 15 seconds to Roest.

 

Well, that was something.  And I thought Geisreiter was impressive for nor finishing last in 1500m after a fall.

[Dennis 759]

Meh, Pedersen should have won.

[NearPup 3,496]

4 hours ago, Dennis said:

Meh, Pedersen should have won.

Gotta stay on your skate to win

 

Still, what a performance by Pedersen, one has to think he'll get his revenge. No idea what is up with Kramer's 10k form, this was kind of am embarrassing performance from him.

[dcro 10,210]

2 minutes ago, Nate River said:

Gotta stay on your skate to win

 

Still, what a performance by Pedersen, one has to think he'll get his revenge. No idea what is up with Kramer's 10k form, this was kind of am embarrassing performance from him.

 

Well, Kramer has many reasons to hate 10km. I think there was only one short period when 10km was easy for him.

 

Pedersen meanwhile seems to be a bit of a choker. This came right after he failed miserably at the Olympic mass start.

[heywoodu 16,004]

Kramer has been complaining about his (left) leg, but then again, Kramer is always complaining about something when he's not winning (in Sochi it was his back, for example).