Dennis

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.

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.

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 Femke Beuling 18,9 500 Joy Beune 19,6 1.000, 1.500 Jutta Leerdam 19,9 500, 1.000 Esmee Visser 22,8 3.000, 5.000 Melissa Wijfje 23,3 1.500, 3.000, 5.000 Esmé Stollenga 23,5 500 Antoinette de Jong 23,6 1.000, 1.500, 3.000, 5.000 Reina Anema 25,3 3.000, 5.000 Letitia de Jong 25,7 500, 1.000 Lotte van Beek 26,9 1.500 Janine Smit 27,6 500 Ireen Wüst 32,6 1.000, 1.500, 3.000 Carien Kleibeuker 40,7 5.000

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.

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

Best Belgian only in 10th place

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

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.

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.

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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.

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.

I mean that Brazil would get 3 points for a victory and Japan 0, resulting in them both having 21 points.

3-0 victory against Japan, then they would tie in wins, in points and in set ratio with Japan, but Brazil's points ratio would be better than that of Japan.

Best result ever at a World Championship for Our previous best result was a 7th place in 1998.

The top 6 might very well be exactly the same as the final 6 of the 2017 WGP:

Annemiek van Vleuten fell after 55 km, broke her knee, and still managed to finish in 7th place.