Dennis

Kramer and Bosker in. Ntab and Snel out. Bosker will skate the team pursuit and 1.500m. Kramer will skate the team pursuit, mass start (!) and 5k. Krol will replace Ntab and will therefore skate the 500, 1.000 and 1.500m.

(Preliminary) Team Men: Peder Kongshaug Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen Bjørn Magnussen Sverre Lunde Pedersen Kristian Gamme Ulekleiv Allan Dahl Johansson Hallgeir Engebråten Women: Marit Fjellanger Bøhm Sofie Karoline Haugen Ragne Wiklund Still 5 (!) quota places on the women's side which have not been used yet. Norway has won 2 quota on the women's 500m, but this list does not include any 500m skaters. I'm not sure if they'll use the quota as both Samsonsen and Ripsrud only barely qualified based on their season's best time and probably won't make top 20 in Beijing, whereas on the men's side all skaters selected have top 10 potential. Bøhm competed during the World Cups but did not even get close to a quota, so she's probably selected for the team pursuit. Not sure if she'll compete in an individual distance. Source: https://www.teamnor.no/nyheter/2021/47-utovere-tatt-ut-i-forste-uttak-til-ol-i-beijing/

Team Men: 500m: Tatsuya Shinhama, Wataru Morishige, Yuma Murakami 1.000m: Tatsuya Shinmaha, Wataru Morishige, Ryota Kojima 1.500m: Seitaro Ichinohe, Takura Oda, Ryota Kojima* 5.000m: Seitaro Ichinohe** 10.000m: Ryosuke Tsuchiya Mass Start: Seitaro Ichinohe (Ryosuke Tsuchiya is a reserve) * got disqualified during the trials, but made it over Taro Kondo as Japan only has 7 quota on the men's side. ** Japan has two quota on the men's 5.000m. Unsure who will be the second skater or if they're going to give back the quota Yamato Matsui is the #7 in the World Cup standings over 500m, but he misses out, because Japan has selected #2 (Morishige), #3 (Shinhama) and #4 (Murakami) based on the results in the Japanese trials. The best Japanese skater in the 1.000m World Cup standings (#8), Masaya Yamada, finished in 5th place, and therefore misses out on a spot in team Japan. Most notable skaters missing out include Taro Kondo, Takuya Morimoto, Shane Williamson and Masahito Obayashi. Women: 500m: Nao Kodaira*, Miho Takagi, Arisa Go 1.000m: Nao Kodaira, Miho Takagi 1.500m: Miho Tagaki, Nana Takagi, Ayano Sato** 3.000m: Miho Takagi, Ayano Sato 5.000m: Misaki Oshigiri, Momoka Horikawa*** Mass Start: Nana Takagi, Rin Kosaka Team Pursuit: Miho Takagi, Ayano Sato, Nana Takagi, Misaki Oshigiri * did not compete in the 500m at the trials, was probably pre-qualified ** Nao Kodaira finished in third place in the trials, 0.62 in front of Sato, but Sato got selected. *** 18-year old, still a junior this season and next season All the top athletes are there, with Horikawa being the biggest "surprise". Miho Takagi skates 5 distances. She also won Japan a quota on the 5.000m, but decided not to enter the trials on this distance. Source: https://www.skatingjapan.or.jp/common/img/info/2022OWGDelegation211231.pdf

Tijmen Snel

That was one exciting 5k Achtereekte missing out by 0.03 and Conijn by 0.13. Conijn also missed out on the 3k by 0.01.

His only hope is Roest and Krol both qualifying. None of the other guys have a chance. And even then he’s not sure as there’s someone missing for the team pursuit next to Roest/Kramer (maybe Bergsma) and the mass start next to Bergsma. I think Bosker would be a good one for both teams.

Krol, Otterspeer and Verbij qualified on the men’s 1.000m. First ever qualification for Otterspeer near the end of his career. Nuis fails to qualify. He must have flashbacks to 2010 and 2014 when he was also one of the favorites to qualify and he missed out. Bad news for someone like N’tab that Otterspeer qualified over Nuis.

One more race on the men’s 1.000m. A 1:07.64 might not be enough for Nuis to qualify as the reining champion. This level is insane.

Naah, don’t think so. They’ll both go to Beijing and the 1.000m is the last distance Antoinette will skate in Beijing after a rest day after the team pursuit. So I guess she will skate herself. But yeah, Michelle would be a great replacement if she’s too tired after all these distances.

8 different women in the matrix so far. If Schouten OR A. de Jong OR Achtereekte qualifies on the 5.000m, then the women’s team will be complete. The mass start team will 99% sure be Schouten and Groenewoud. The team pursuit team will most likely consist of A. de Jong, Schouten and Wüst with Achtereekte as a reserve. Based on the season so far, that would definitely be the strongest team, so I’m happy!

De Jong and Wüst also qualified, two skaters who had already qualified on another distance.

Groenewoud qualified on the 1.500m That means she’ll most likely start on the mass start as well as reigning World Champion.

Would be a surprise as the short track relay final will be on the same day, with the relay final being right before the 500m.

Kramer will go. They will give him a spot for the team pursuit if he doesn't qualify based on the matrix. That's what I think.

Verbij finished 3rd, N'tab 2nd.

Scheperkamp!

This happened. Schouten, De Jong and Achtereekte are the top 3.

Carlijn Achtereekte leads the 3.000m by 0.01 in front of youngster Merel Conijn with one pair to go. Conijn might miss the Olympics on 0.01.

We’ve just unwrapped our Christmas presents, now we’re watching speed skating with the family before having Christmas dinner together. Typical Dutch Christmas

This is looking good for Kramer Edit: spoke too soon. Snellink!

Hahaha, you're right. Speedskatingresults.com was throwing me off. https://speedskatingresults.com/index.php?p=3&e=24596&r=20003 Could be the suits, or maybe he's finally found a way to be in his best shape in the second half of the season.

Patrick Roest skated a 3:35 on a 3.000m during a training competition in Heerenveen. That looks like a world record to me, but I'm not sure.

I'm not @heywoodu, but I can answer this too. Professional sports can continue, but without spectators. So the trials will be held, just in an empty skating hall. EDIT: Sorry, for some reason I totally missed the posts on this page and did not notice heywoodu had already replied.

He still lost though

In 2018. Norway gave up an event quota in the men's 500m and the quota from Russia were taken away because of the doping scandal. Four reserves replaced them. So keep your hopes up.