Dennis

ISU World Tour 2024/25 - Montréal (Stage 2/6) Men's 5.000m Relay: 01. Canada 02. South Korea 03. Italy

Give her some time. I think she will grow into the season and seeing how many different skaters already have won medals in the first two weekends of the season, I don't see why Fontana couldn't be one of them. She's been incredibly close this weekend with two A-finals in her first event back.

Finish of the men's 5.000m relay B-final:

These are also the standings in the women's Crystal Globe after 2/6 weekends. The gaps between the three are very close. On the other hand, we have William Dandjinou in a league of his own in the men's Crystal Globe standings before Pietro Sighel and Jens van 't Wout

ISU World Tour 2024/25 - Montréal (Stage 2/6) Women's 500m: 01. Xandra Velzeboer 02. Choi Minjeong 03. Kim Gilli

Canada has won 5/7 events so far this weekend

ISU World Tour 2024/25 - Montréal (Stage 2/6) Men's 1.000m: 01. William Dandjinou 02. Jang Sungwoo 03. Jordan Pierre-Gilles

ISU World Tour 2024/25 - Montréal (Stage 2/6) Women's 1.500m: 01. Hanne Desmet 02. Kim Gilli 03. Corinne Stoddard

We've had some national championships already this season. Here are the national champions so far: Canada Women: Carolina Hiller (500m) Ivanie Blondin (1.000m, 1.500m, 3.000m) Laura Hall (5.000m) Valerie Maltais (Mass Start) Men: Laurent Dubreuil (500m) Connor Howe (1.000m, 1.500m) Graeme Fish (5.000m, 10.000m) Hayden Mayeur (Mass Start) South Korea Women: Kim Min-Sun (500m, 1.000m) Park Ji-Woo (1.500m, 3.000m) Jeong Yu-Na (5.000m) Men Kim Jun-Ho (500m) Cha Min-Kyu (1.000m) Oh Hyun-Min (1.500m) Lee Seung-Hoon (5.000m) Park Sung-Yun (10.000m) Japan Women: Yukino Yoshida (500m) Miho Takagi (1.000m, 1.500m, 3.000m) Momoka Horikawa (5.000m, Mass Start) Men: Tatsuya Shinhama (500m, 1.000m) Taiyo Nonomura (1.500m) Seitaro Ichinohe (5.000m, 10.000m) Shoumu Sasaki (Mass Start) Poland Women: Andzelika Wójcik (500m) Natalia Jabrzyk (1.000m, 1.500m, 5.000m) Zofia Braun (3.000m) Liwia Kubin (Mass Start) Men: Piotr Michalski (500m) Damian Zurek (1.000m, 1.500m) Szymon Palka (5.000m, 10.000m, Mass Start) Norway Women: Julie Nistad Samsonsen (500m) Ragne Wiklund (1.500m, 3.000m) Aurora Grinden Løvås (Mass Start) Men: Bjørn Magnussen (500m) Sander Eitrem (1.500m, 5.000m) Allan Dahl Johnasson (Mass Start) United States of America Women: Kimi Goetz (500m) Brittany Bowe (1.000m, 1.500m) Greta Myers (3.000m) Rebecca Simmons (5.000m) Men: Jordan Stolz (500m, 1.000m, 1.500m) Casey Dawson (5.000m) Kelin Dunfee (10.000m) Germany Women: Anna Ostlender (500m, 1.000m) Lea Sophie Scholz (1.500m) Maira Jasch (3.000m) Josie Hofmann (5.000m) Michelle Uhrig (Mass Start) Men: Hendrik Dombek (500m) Moritz Klein (1.000m) Stefan Emele (1.500m) Patrick Beckert (5.000m) Fridtjof Petzold (10.000m) Tom Rudolph (Mass Start) Austria Women: Vanessa Herzog (500m) Jeannine Rosner (1.000m, 3.000m) Anna Molnar (1.500m) Men: Ignaz Gschwentner (500m, 1.000m) Julian Zimmerling (3.000m) Czechia Women: Nikola Zdráhalová (500m, 1.000m, Allround) Martina Sáblíková (1.500m, 3.000m) Men: Prokop Stodola (500m, 1.000m, 1.500m) Tadeáš Procházka (5.000m) Portugal Women: Francisca Gomes Henriques (500m) Jéssica Carolina Santos Rodrigues (1.000m, 1.500m, 3.000m, Allround) Men: Martim José Coelho Vieira (500m) Afonso Henrique Pestana Silva (1.000m, 1.500m, 5.000m, Allround) Miguel Amores Monteiro (3.000m) Romania Women: Mihaela Hogas (Sprint) Men: Cosmin Nedelea (Sprint) Notable results (other than the times mentioned in this thread by others): Unkown skater Hanna Damaratskaya skated 37,65 in the women's 500m in Kolomna, the 2nd time of the season so far. Yevgeniy Koshkin finished in 34,56 in the men's 500m in Inzell, the 3rd time of the season so far. Sanne in 't Hof skated a 6.54,97 in the women's 5.000m in Heerenveen, more than 10 seconds faster than the number 2 time of the season.

They have only two women in their national team, one of whom could not start today (Tineke den Dulk). I do not know why she could not start.

ISU World Tour 2024/25 - Montréal (Stage 2/6) Mixed 2.000m Relay: 01. Canada 02. the Netherlands 03. Japan

ISU World Tour 2024/25 - Montréal (Stage 2/6) Women's 3.000m Relay: 01. Canada 02. Italy 03. China

ISU World Tour 2024/25 - Montréal (Stage 2/6) Men's 500m: 01. Steven Dubois 02. William Dandjinou 03. Pietro Sighel

He's already the first ever winner of a Winter YOG medal for Türkiye, but an actual WOG medal for him or Akar would be amazing.

ISU World Tour 2024/25 - Montréal (Stage 2/6) Women's 1.000m: 01. Choi Minjeong 02. Xandra Velzeboer 03. Corinne Stoddard Arianna Fontana in 4th

ISU World Tour 2024/25 - Montréal (Stage 2/6) Men's 1.500m: 01. William Dandjinou 02. Roberts Kruzbergs 03. Pietro Sighel 17-year-old Muhammed Bozdağ in 6th place . He won silver in the boys' 1.000m at the 2024 Winter YOG in Gangneung earlier this year.

ISU World Tour 2024/25 - Montréal (Stage 1/6) Men's 1.000m: 01. Jens van 't Wout 02. Roberts Kruzbergs 03. Michal Niewinski Women's 500m: 01. Xandra Velzeboer 02. Kristen Santos-Griswold 03. Hanne Desmet Women's 1.500m: 01. Kim Gilli 02. Hanne Desmet 03. Choi Minjeong Men's 5.000m Relay: 01. Canada 02. China 03. the Netherlands Mixed 3.000m Relay: 01. the Netherlands 02. South Korea 03. Canada

Silver medal for Kruzbergs in the men's 1.000m

ISU World Tour 2024/25 - Montréal (Stage 1/6) Men's 500m: 01. William Dandjinou 02. Steven Dubois 03. Lin Xiaojun Men's 1.500m: 01. William Dandjinou 02. Park Ji Won 03. Steven Dubois Women's 1.000m: 01. Xandra Velzeboer 02. Kristen Santos-Griswold 03. Corinne Stoddard Women's 3.000m Relay: 01. Italy 02. South Korea 03. the Netherlands

Looks like it. beat them at their own game (track cycling and rowing)

just passed

Oh no, it’s definitely not meant as bashing. It’s the fact that her mind goes in 20 different directions within a minute. The first sentence of an answer is her answer to the question and then she starts yapping.

Once again, an iconic interview. She indeed was yapping for 5 minutes straight and I understood a total of 6 words, but she looked happy.

What an exciting marathon with five runners fighting almost all the way to the finish

Was getting a haircut when the third quarter started. Thought it was a lost game for us. What happened that last quarter?!