Monzanator

Now remembering the great  Denis Ten, his legacy lives on.

Flock has to hold off a flock of Germans... 

Prediction for tomorrow's 500m:
 
Jordan Stolz 
Damian Żurek  Jenning de Boo  Kim Jun-Ho  Wataru Morishige  Marek Kania  Yevgeniy Koshkin  Bjørn Magnussen   Cooper McLeod  Marten Liiv Laurent Dubreuil  Xue Zhiwen  Sebas Diniz  Tatsuya Shinhama  Gao Tingyu  Katsuhiro Kuratsubo  Lian Ziwen   Anders Johnson Koo Kyung-Min  Joep Wennemars  Piotr Michalski  Cédrick Brunet  Nil Llop Izquierdo  Zach Stoppelmoor  Jeffrey Rosanelli  Henrik Fagerli Rukke  Moritz Klein  Ignaz Gschwentner  Hendrik Dombek 

Flock has to hold off a flock of Germans... 

Flock has to hold off a flock of Germans... 

I think you're the one person who doesn't like this, besides that, he is very popular and liked all around the speed skating world luckily  
 
Awesome podium today!

Men's 10000m
Final Results   Metodej JILEK 12:33.43   Vladimir SEMIRUNNIY 12:39.08   Jorrit BERGSMA 12:40.48 Full Final Result HERE
 

Finally some good shopping.🫡

Jilek! 
 
Amazing podium, with a beautiful medal for Poland and an unexpected medal for 40-year-old Bergsma! 

@Adrianoand @rybakshould understand the context 
 
 

Bergsma misses out on Semirunniy! Huh! 
 
Ghiotto tailed off badly...

Semirunniy 12:39.09. Can't say how good that is on this track.

Think he's sick 😫 

Spontanity won. I'm on my way!

@Agger@heywooduPolish media also suggest Dawson is out.

Hedegart lost 15 secs on the final climb!!!  Desloges actually holds on to silver!

This photo btw, Delia
 
That pain in Bruna's face is real, she said her legs felt as if her bones were about to simply snap in half but she outright refused to stop the race. She has had DNF's in the past two seasons, but that was just not going to happen in this one. No way.
 
 

Oh and last bit of experience from yesterday: we were yelling "Go Sami! Gooo Sami!!" whenever  Samaneh Beyrami passed us and in the first lap, when she passed us at the uphill and we were screaming for her, she actually looked up for a second and had this huge smile, that was just awesome  
 
Plus I noticed that after we had been yelling for certain athletes for a while, other people around us started cheering for them too, including for Sami   Unsurprisingly I didn't really see Iranian flags among the spectators, but this way at least she had some nice support during her whole race basically @MHSN  

Nothing sad about it at all, Regina was awesome yesterday and her finish was clearly full of happiness  
 
Like Bruna said yesterday, Regina qualifying for the Olympics was one of the highlights of the entire qualifying period. For so many years she had been ridiculed and laughed at by athletes even from small countries, because 'her technique is bad', 'she is never gonna make it' and so on. Then in Trondheim last year she basically gave a big fuck you to all of them and qualified fair and square with an amazing race  
 
 Bruna,   Sami and Regina often hang out together in the Olympic accomodation, eat together, have fun together and so on, and they had made a deal together that they would wait for each other at the finish, no matter if there was 5 minutes or 50 minutes between their finishing times  
 
I don't know if it was possible to hear, but when Regina finished, Bruna was yelling at her "You are an Olympian! You are an Olympian!!!"  
 
And then coincidence got massive: when we (my dad and sister and Bruna's parents) were on the way back to the car, we ran into some people with Regina Martinez caps and such (there were a few of these groups), got talking to them.....turns out it was Regina's mother  My dad and her spent a bit of time connecting their phones to share some photos he had (or a video of her finish, not sure), she was very happy with it!

Sadly,  Regina Martinez ended in last place, but she will always be the first woman to compete for our country in this discipline.
 
Thanks @brunamoura congrats for your Olympic experience, you deserve to be remembered. Also thanks for your support at the finish line for my countrywoman.
 
 

I'm not going to root for anyone anymore. 

YAY, medal for Sarault  By the way, i couldn't find information if she has a boyfriend, sooo i volunteer as tribute! 

Sarault has a medal 

Sarault has a medal 

Sarault has a medal