Dennis

I wasn't aware that it's an outdoor rink.

I expect the Norwegians doing very well here. They usually do well outdoors.

Although I don't take it that seriously, I actually enjoy the Nations League. Instead of poor match-ups for the international friendlies, we now see teams of a similar level play against each other.

Medal table after the first World Cup weekend in  Obihiro:

01.  05 - 03 - 03 = 11

02.  04 - 04 - 03 = 11

03.  03 - 06 - 04 = 13

04.  01 - 02 - 00 = 03

05.  01 - 01 - 02 = 04

06.  01 - 00 - 00 = 01

06.  01 - 00 - 00 = 01

08.  00 - 00 - 02 = 02

09.  00 - 00 - 01 = 01

10.  00 - 00 - 01 = 01

 missed out on a bronze medal on the men's 5.000m by 0,02 seconds.

29 minutes ago, wumo26 said:

Or some Danish words.....Speciallægepraksisplanlægningsstabiliseringsperiode.

Funny that the last nine syllables are also a word in Dutch.

But yeah, the video wasn't that clear to me either. Is it pronounced Ulhova?

On ‎03‎/‎11‎/‎2018 at 23:51, Dennis said:

Medals after 4/11 events in Calgary:

 

  1 - 1 - 0

  1 - 0 - 0

  1 - 0 - 0

  1 - 0 - 0

  0 - 1 - 1

  0 - 1 - 1

  0 - 1 - 0

  0 - 0 - 1

  0 - 0 - 1

 

I love how much this sport has grown in quite a short amount of time. Just 10 years ago the first world cup of the season (Salt Lake City 2008) resulted in the following medal table after all 10 events:

 

  6 - 5 - 2

  4 - 2 - 1

  0 - 2 - 4

  0 - 1 - 3

 

 

To be complete: final medal table after the first World Cup weekend:

 3 - 2 - 1

 3 - 1 - 1

 2 - 1 - 1

 1 - 1 - 1

 1 - 0 - 0

 1 - 0 - 0

 0 - 4 - 2

 0 - 1 - 3

 0 - 1 - 0

 0 - 0 - 1

 0 - 0 - 1

• 11 events with 11 different countries winning medals. Much more diversity than many other winter sports. 
• 7 golden medals won by European countries, whereas no golden medals for  and home country .
• The first golden medal for  and an unexpected golden medal for . 
• Also surprised to see  on top of the medal table. Can't remember when/if that happened before.

A lot of new names in the US team, especially on the men’s side.

I would be surprised if anyone other than Bowe or Mantia would win a medal this season, apart maybe from the mass start lottery. 

Dai Dai Ntab again just missing out. 6th place on the 1.000 metres, while he needed a top 5 spot to qualify for the first World Cups.

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Although the level in the 500m is just sad, but alright, that's nothing new among Dutch women  

It is, but for example at the 2017 world championships we were represented by Ter Mors (27 at the time), Van den Brandt (26) and Das (31). At the Olympics Van Beek (26) replaced Van den Brandt. All of them past their mid-20s.

Now we are represented by Beuling (18), Leerdam (19) and Stollenga (23), who all have a lot of room for improvement.

Just now, dcro said:

Where is Carlijn Achtereekte?

Issues with her stomach. She flopped on the 1.500 metres (20th place in 2:02,36) and then decided not to start on the remaining distances.

If we do not take Ireen Wüst and Carien Kleibeuker into account, the average age of the Dutch women that qualified for the first World Cups is 23,3. So we finally see a new generation coming through Women who qualified:

Name - Age - Distances

12:47,89 for Roest on the 10.000 metres

Men's 1.500m should also be interesting this year:  Patrick Roest (1:44,42),  Denis Yuskov (1:44,48) and Kjeld Nuis (1:44,51) all have a season's best time which are incredibly close to each other.

3 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Wherever did you read 6:50.64? 

She skated that time a few minutes ago. It's not included in the table yet.

40 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Dutch 1-2-3 in the women's under 23  

https://chronorace.blob.core.windows.net/webresources/20181102_uec/cro_WU_results.pdf

 

More interesting: the winner is born in the Dominican Republic! And a Czech girl in 4th place  @hckosice

Best Belgian only in 10th place

spee

14 minutes ago, Sindo said:

 

Where did you get those results from ? I see the link results I was using until last year (https://live.isuresults.eu/home) is not showing results anymore

www.speedskatingresults.com is a good website, especially to see recent national/world records

Just now, heywoodu said:

Yeah, and still Stephanie Beckert in 2nd place, who used to be amazing for a very short period of time 7-8 years ago and has not gotten anywhere close to that level since. 

Exactly, another 30-year old. Which is fine, if that 30-year old is world class, but 4:12 in Inzell isn't world class at all. And looking at the results, there are no youngsters coming through.

Kodaira already skated a 37,30 in Nagano this season, 0,17 slower than her track record. No one this season has come close.

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

46-year old Claudia Pechstein won the German 3k title in a rather decent 4:08

http://speedskatingresults.com/index.php?p=3&e=20027&r=8

It's impressive that she still wins national titles at age 46, but it worries me that in Inzell - where five Dutch skaters skated under 4:06 in the past month alone - no other German woman manages to skate sub 4:12. 

Germany was a country that used to dominate women's speed skating not that long ago.

Medals after 4/11 events in Calgary:

  1 - 1 - 0

  1 - 0 - 0

  1 - 0 - 0

  1 - 0 - 0

  0 - 1 - 1

  0 - 1 - 1

  0 - 1 - 0

  0 - 0 - 1

  0 - 0 - 1

I love how much this sport has grown in quite a short amount of time. Just 10 years ago the first world cup of the season (Salt Lake City 2008) resulted in the following medal table after all 10 events:

  6 - 5 - 2

  4 - 2 - 1

  0 - 2 - 4

  0 - 1 - 3

 Gold for Suzanne Schulting on the 1.500 metres, silver for Yara van Kerkhof on the 500 metres.

Good start for

  in the same pool during women's volleyball nations league in week 3.

Welkom!  

20 minutes ago, DaniSRB said:

and especially after first set, still incredible how they lost it........but bounced back in the end

Wasn't able to watch the match as I'm at work, but I gave up hope after I saw that they were trailing 0-2. The highlights of this match must be incredible. Can't wait to find a proper video tonight.

Came back from 0-2 in sets after losing the second set with 25-15. 

5 hours ago, dareza said:

Who is Yastremksa? @Wanderer

 

wow it seems that Ukraine will be very strong in future with her and Kostyuk.

Let's see how this pans out. A few years ago, we said that Croatia would have a great Fed Cup team with big talents Vekic and Konjuh shooting up through the rankings. Vekic is now coming through again with a career high ranking of 37, though the expectations were much bigger for her, and Konjuh is not inside the top 400 right now. They're still young though, but Osaka for example is exactly the same age as Konjuh, and Ostapenko and Sabalenka are from the same generation outperforming these two at the moment.

Hope that for Ukraine the situation will be different.