heywoodu 13,499 Posted February 7, 2019 #11 Share Posted February 7, 2019 4 hours ago, dcro said: @heywoodu What's up with these "talentNED" suits? Pretentious as hell. TalentNED is just some talent development programme in sports and business (or something), which happened to get together with a speed skating team needing a sponsor Anyway it's a commercial team, not the slogan of the Dutch or something If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,499 Posted February 7, 2019 #12 Share Posted February 7, 2019 Also: gold for Pedersen/Norway in a long distance after 16 billion years If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,527 Posted February 7, 2019 #13 Share Posted February 7, 2019 please, can someone explain to me the sense of the so-called Team Sprint? (which basically has nothing to do with real sprint performances, except for the first lap/skater) meanwhile, looking at the more traditional races, I'm very disappointed by today's performance by Francesca Lollobrigida...she started definitely too quick and she was already dead after 3 laps... she did show a lot of progress in the "classic" distances this year, but once again she missed out when it mattered most... among the boys, pretty average result for the Italian team...more or less it all went according to the preview...maybe Ghiotto was even a bit better than expected...let's see if he can get something big in "his" 10000m... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,499 Posted February 7, 2019 #14 Share Posted February 7, 2019 Just now, phelps said: please, can someone explain to me the sense of the so-called Team Sprint? (which basically has nothing to do with real sprint performances, except for the first lap/skater) That's not true, the second lap is still definitely a sprinter (500m and 1000m are the sprint distances) If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,499 Posted February 7, 2019 #15 Share Posted February 7, 2019 By the way, I can't stress enough how absolutely epic Pedersen's race was. That was utterly insane and one of the best pieces of skating I've ever seen. NearPup 1 If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,527 Posted February 7, 2019 #16 Share Posted February 7, 2019 5 minuti fa, heywoodu ha scritto: That's not true, the second lap is still definitely a sprinter (500m and 1000m are the sprint distances) let's say it for the "long" sprinters...I don't think a pure 500m specialist can survive the second lap... however, it's the entire race that doesn't have a lot of sense to me (p.s. don't tell me of the track cycling Team Sprint event)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,499 Posted February 7, 2019 #17 Share Posted February 7, 2019 10 minutes ago, phelps said: let's say it for the "long" sprinters...I don't think a pure 500m specialist can survive the second lap... however, it's the entire race that doesn't have a lot of sense to me (p.s. don't tell me of the track cycling Team Sprint event)... Which is why a pure 500m specialist will be the first position in the team, but that doesn't change that 1000m is still considered a sprint I don't feel too bad or good about the event, kinda neutral about it. Better than the baby mass start ISU put on the Olympic program If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,527 Posted February 7, 2019 #18 Share Posted February 7, 2019 17 minuti fa, heywoodu ha scritto: Which is why a pure 500m specialist will be the first position in the team, but that doesn't change that 1000m is still considered a sprint I don't feel too bad or good about the event, kinda neutral about it. Better than the baby mass start ISU put on the Olympic program OK, it's obvious that you like winning easy with that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,499 Posted February 7, 2019 #19 Share Posted February 7, 2019 9 minutes ago, phelps said: OK, it's obvious that you like winning easy with that... What? If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis 600 Posted February 8, 2019 #20 Share Posted February 8, 2019 Draw 500m ladies: Letitia de Jong - Qishi Li Yekaterina Aydova - Gabriele Hirschbichler Kaja Ziomek - Ruining Tian Heather Mclean - Kaylin Irvine Hege Bøkko - Erin Jackson Marsha Hudey - Janine Smit Jingzhu Jin - Jutta Leerdam Maki Tsuji - Konami Soga Hyun-Yung Kim - Min Sun Kim Brittany Bowe - Vanessa Herzog Angelina Golikova - Daria Kachanova Olga Fatkulina - Nao Kodaira Draw not as stacked with all the medal favorites in the last three pairs and some outsiders in pair 7, 8 and 9. Draw 500m men: Piotr Michalski - Ronald Mulder Christopher Fiola - Henrik Fagerli Rukke David Bosa - Tingyu Gao Artur Nogal - Artur Was Gilmore Junio - Tae-Yun Kim Jan Smeekens - Bjørn Magnussen Dai Dai Ntab - Min Kyu Cha Ruslan Murashov - Jun-Ho Kim Laurent Dubreuil - Nico Ihle Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen - Viktor Mushtakov Yuma Murakami - Tatsuya Shinhama Pavel Kulizhnikov - Tsubasa Hasegawa Much more exciting to me with a number of outsiders in the early pairs and the favorites in the last pairs. With the team pursuits also being skated today, I expect a lot of medals for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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