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I was expecting one of Scott or Pearman to miss out, Laliberté-Roy is certainly the biggest surprise at these trials (pending the men's 1500m of course)

Rank Event Athlete 1 3000m (1) Isabelle Weidemann Q 2 5000m (1) Isabelle Weidemann Q 3 3000m (2) Valérie Maltais Q 4 5000m (2) Laura Hall Q 5 Mass Start (1) Ivanie Blondin Q 6 Mass Start (2) Valérie Maltais Q 7 1000m (1) Béatrice Lamarche Q 8 1500m (1) Ivanie Blondin Q 9 3000m (3) Laura Hall Q 10 500m (1) Béatrice Lamarche Q 11 1000m (2) Rose Laliberté-Roy Q 12 1500m (2) Q 13 500m (2) Carolina Hiller-Donnelly Q 14 500m (3) Brooklyn McDougall 15 1500m (3) 16 1000m (3) Alexa Scott

Rank Event Athlete 1 10000m (1) Ted-Jan Bloemen Q 2 5000m (1) Ted-Jan Bloemen Q 3 Mass Start (1) Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu Q 4 Mass Start (2) Q 5 500m (1) Laurent Dubreuil Q 6 500m (2) Anders Johnson Q 7 1500m (1) Q 8 500m (3) Cédrick Brunet Q 9 1000m (1) Laurent Dubreuil Q 10 1500m (2) 11 1000m (2) Anders Johnson Q

Nine unique names on the matrix so someone is missing out. Rank Event Athlete 1 3000m (1) Isabelle Weidemann Q 2 5000m (1) Isabelle Weidemann Q 3 3000m (2) Valérie Maltais Q 4 5000m (2) Q 5 Mass Start (1) Ivanie Blondin Q 6 Mass Start (2) Valérie Maltais Q 7 1000m (1) Béatrice Lamarche Q 8 1500m (1) Ivanie Blondin Q 9 3000m (3) Laura Hall Q 10 500m (1) Béatrice Lamarche Q 11 1000m (2) Rose Laliberté-Roy Q 12 1500m (2) Q 13 500m (2) Carolina Hiller-Donnelly 14 500m (3) Brooklyn McDougall 15 1500m (3) 16 1000m (3) Alexa Scott

I think he’d probably be able to make the team now, but it was probably not obvious he’d be able to when he decided to represent Poland. It’s a pretty hard team to crack even for people who are really good. Brendan Corey (who is from my hometown!) is someone else who could maybe make a Canadian team, but obviously much easier to qualify with Australia. Courtney Sarault actually could have represented (like fellow skater and Olympic medalist Travis Jayner) but luckily she picked Canada 😅

Obviously very unsurprising that Félix Pigeon qualified. I hope he can sneak in a medal in Milan, always nice to see the "rejects" from the Canadian team do well.

Hopefully it will be a good atmosphere at the speed skating, have tickets for the women's 1500m :3

Honestly I think I like watching the Dutch speed skating trials more than watching Olympic speed skating. A bit similar to how I like the Canadian curling trials (for men’s and women’s, less so for mixed doubles) more than the Olympics.

Updated matrix: Men Rank Event Athlete 1 10000m (1) Ted-Jan Bloemen Q 2 5000m (1) Ted-Jan Bloemen Q 3 Mass Start (1) Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu Q 4 Mass Start (2) Q 5 500m (1) Laurent Dubreuil Q 6 500m (2) Anders Johnson Q 7 1500m (1) Q 8 500m (3) Cédrick Brunet Q 9 1000m (1) 10 1500m (2) 11 1000m (2) Women Rank Event Athlete 1 3000m (1) Isabelle Weidemann Q 2 5000m (1) Isabelle Weidemann Q 3 3000m (2) Valérie Maltais Q 4 5000m (2) Q 5 Mass Start (1) Ivanie Blondin Q 6 Mass Start (2) Valérie Maltais Q 7 1000m (1) Béatrice Lamarche Q 8 1500m (1) Ivanie Blondin Q 9 3000m (3) Q 10 500m (1) Béatrice Lamarche Q 11 1000m (2) Q 12 1500m (2) Q 13 500m (2) Carolina Hiller-Donnelly 14 500m (3) Brooklyn McDougall 15 1500m (3) 16 1000m (3)

First time ever a winner of the prestigious and world famous FIFA Peace Prize invades another nation.

We have a matrix too, we’re a big boy speed skating country just like the Netherlands :D

I mean I hope so :P To me this looks like a weaker group than 2014 (though to be fair that was a *stacked* roster)

men’s Olympic team: Goaltenders: Jordan Binnington, St. Louis Blues Darcy Kuemper, Los Angeles Kings Logan Thompson, Washington Capitals Defensemen: Drew Doughty, Los Angeles Kings Thomas Harley, Dallas Stars Cale Makar, Colorado Avalanche Josh Morrissey, Winnipeg Jets Colton Parayko, St. Louis Blues Travis Sanheim, Philadelphia Flyers Shea Theodore, Vegas Golden Knights Devon Toews, Colorado Avalanche Forwards: Macklin Celebrini, San Jose Sharks Anthony Cirelli, Tampa Bay Lightning Sidney Crosby, Pittsburgh Penguins Brandon Hagel, Tampa Bay Lightning Bo Horvat, New York Islanders Nathan MacKinnon, Colorado Avalanche Brad Marchand, Florida Panthers Mitch Marner, Vegas Golden Knights Connor McDavid, Edmonton Oilers Brayden Point, Tampa Bay Lightning Sam Reinhart, Florida Panthers Mark Stone, Vegas Golden Knights Nick Suzuki, Montreal Canadiens Tom Wilson, Washington Capitals

Who do you think has a stronger team in the men's team pursuit? They have not lost all year. They set the world record this season. Nobody has gotten within a second of them all year. Edit: oh, for the USA xD Ya, but that's part of why the Dutch aren't going to be too bothered by the men's team pursuit I think. Even if they threw everything at the TP at this point it's probably too late to develop a team that can compete against the , so the gold is pretty much gone anyway.

I don’t think we have to be too too worried about the men. The is a huge favourite in the men’s TP. The women are probably favourites tho.

Kjeld Nuis 4th

Remind me, why is it that Jake Paul wasn’t moving his mouth much? Did something happen?

Great, Jake Paul‘s fiancée is the only thing American media will talk about in Milan

I mean, Canada also has its own trials and they are about as competitive as the US trials. The Dutch trials are absolutely the most competitive ones in the world by far fwiw. But both the US and Canada have more centralized and relaxed training environments than the Netherlands. That’s something Carlijn Schoutens talked about too.

Bloemen is an interesting case because he was genuinely not going to get anywhere in the Netherlands. It seems like he needed to be a big fish in a small(et) pound. He’s been pretty open about how moving to Canada basically saved his career.

What does Wüst know about speed skating anyway?

Why are you just making up fake Italian names? :P But once again, I feel like people always underestimate how weird Olympic speed skating results can be. There are always people who find the form of their lives, people who overtrain, people who are randomly in bad form and people who have been hiding their form all season.

Genuinely tragic he never got to go to the Olympics :<

British Columbia in general and Vancouver in particular are awesome and it’s great more people got to discover it thanks to Vancouver 2010.

Nobody hates Britain more than the British media so… I recall it being quite a pessimistic tone before the London games started.