Speed Skating ISU Single Distances World Championships 2019

[dcro 10,179]

No medal for Klei-something. Too bad.

[dcro 10,179]

@heywoodu Is Dutch "Visser" prounounced similarly as "Fischer"? I'd like to be proven right here.

[heywoodu 13,557]

11 minutes ago, dcro said:

No medal for Klei-something. Too bad.

Still a very decent chance for bronze

 

[heywoodu 13,557]

1 minute ago, dcro said:

@heywoodu Is Dutch "Visser" prounounced similarly as "Fischer"? I'd like to be proven right here.

V is more soft than F and ss is pronounced just as an s (unlike sch where there is sort of a J sound in there), but it's not entirely wrong

 

The middle ss can be pronounced as the s in regular words like season or spending or say, the v is just like in vacant or something.

[heywoodu 13,557]

Wow what a race for Visser, 4th fastest time in history 

[heywoodu 13,557]

Sablikova 

 

Awesome fight and damn what a time, 2nd fastest ever 

[Dennis 600]

Sabilkova!  10th world title in a row on the 5.000m. 

 

Great time for Visser too.

[dcro 10,179]

Since when is Sablikova this fast?

 

Let's go for zero Dutch golds then (not counting joke events obviously).

[heywoodu 13,557]

2 minutes ago, dcro said:

Since when is Sablikova this fast?

Since before the Czech Republic was it's own country?

 

[heywoodu 13,557]

Visser: "Of course I wanted to have another title, but also there's things like people saying 'if you win you will get this or that'."

Interviewer: "Well now I'm curious, what would you have gotten if you won?"

Visser: "Well, someone said I would get a lifesize chocolate figure of myself..."