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  1. Roest needs to make up 33.38 seconds on Stolz in the 10k I mean, with the race of his life it's possible, but yeah....not likely. Ghiotto will need the race of his life for bronze, I thought he'd be a bit closer...
  2. Out of curiousity I thought I'd check if there's nice betting options there, but other than Best Production Design, all of the 'Will win' options are the betting favourites as well, too bad
  3. Botn shoots clean, which means miracles exist, and he's pulling it onto the podium, kicking Laegreid out very much last minute
  4. And Roest, about his weird 5k, said he 'didnt dare follow Ghiotto'. Which is so unbelievable, he beat the man more than 10 times in 2 years and is by far the king of the 5k, he skates 6:05 with apparent ease in Heerenveen. How on earth doesn't he dare to follow Ghiotto? If it's a 10k, fine, Ghiotto is next-level there, but the 5k? Like former skater Erben Wennemars said on Dutch TV after the 5k: Roest let himself be pushed into a background role due to the massive Stolz hype, and he is riding like it. It was a 5k of someone who accepted defeat before he started.
  5. Miho Takagi is out, by the way. Not surprising, her coach was already very doubtful about it after the 500m
  6. Fillon Maillet apparently forgetting his penalty lap and throwing away a potential podium or even win with it
  7. Even though he already had a 6:20 (on sea level), and has a 13:17 Ghiotto will eat him alive on the 10k of course, Roest should normally do that as well, kind of the same for both on the 5k (but yeah, 16:14, good luck winning a lot on that)....but in the 500m alone Stolz wins like 40 10k seconds, and in the 1500 he'll destroy both as well
  8. 5k is done and Stolz has gone from one of the two main favourites for the gold to the one and only sky high top favourite
  9. Might result in the Olympics being cancelled.
  10. Wouldn't be surprised if they're aiming for a medal or two in the next Olympics.
  11. By the way, with this 5k Stolz has now passed Shani Davis and Sven Kramer in the Adelskalender, the alltime allround ranking. Only Roest is ahead now, but of course Stolz has a lot more to gain than Roest, who already has 6:02 and 12:35.
  12. In the end I think especially Ning's 34.4 did the trick, that was...masterful
  13. Huh? The whole talk about these entire championships has for days been around "how on earth can Roest hold off Stolz?", they are basically the only two riders in the entire field with more than like 2% chance for the gold, and it's universally seen as 50/50, or with Stolz as favourite If nothing super weird happens, nobody other than Roest has any serious chance to come anywhere near Stolz. Of course, after 34.10 Stolz's chances have skyrocketed even more, and the 6:14 he just posted is even more insane. Roest needs the race of his life in the 5k, 1500m and 10k to even stand a chance now.
  14. Surely the surprise wasn't for him winning that? Biggest favourite for a single distance ever in the allround championships
  15. Good to know Dale is a friendly guy Campbell Wright is a super nice guy as well. He was part of one of the groups in Livigno, training under an Italian former biathlete where everything was just focused on the money, it's great to see he got out of there in recent years and has really started to show his potential! And while you're at it, give an extra cheer to Aita Gasparin, Lena Häcki, Lotte Lie, Michele Carrara, Anastasiya Merkushuna and obviously Baiba Bendika, all of whom are super friendly people as well
  16. Young me would have never imagined one day there'd be a whole segment on the main Dutch daily news program showing several clips from Dragon Ball Z
  17. I saw there's a surprising amount of Dutch athletes still in it, so it got me slightly interested Is there like a daily schedule or something to be found somewhere?
  18. It's not necessarily a problem, she would have easily gotten a visa. The problem isn't that the USA didn't grant her one, it's that due to her having visited Cuba, she should have used the regular visa application process instead of the simple ESTA process, which both her and (more importantly) her federation apparently missed. Had they applied for it in the regular way, well in advance, there most likely would not have been any problem.
  19. Yeah, Tomingas is huge and has towers for legs (wait until you see Maya Cloetens though) Awesome that you're involved as volunteer! Without people like you sports can't happen, so thanks, and have fun!
  20. I know, but I meant in our case here on the forum where we're just joking a bit while enjoying the biathlon
  21. I can't think of Chipotle without thinking of Chipotlaway
  22. Plus in the end it's just joking around I wouldn't mind if people say the Netherlands is just full with people smoking weed while either ice skating or wearing wooden shoes
  23. Christiansen getting away with 3 edge shots
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