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  1. NearPup
    Disappointing Olympics in speed skating for
  2. NearPup
    I actually hope for a format change soon - eliminating the women's 3000m and introducing the women's 10000m. I want more 10000m drama, damn it!
  3. NearPup
    *nobody else on this forum liked that* I don't mind the mass start (they need to get rid of the points tho), and I think the team events are great (bring in the team sprint for 2026!), but the essence of speed skating is skating against the clock. None of the new events should come at the expense of these time trials. I know short track has trialled both a point race format and a Madison format, maybe that would be a better place for a proper speed skating points race.
  4. NearPup
    Lee Seung-hoon also wins his sixth career medal. Chung Jae-won wins an individual medal here after serving as a domestique in the mass start for Lee four years ago.
  5. NearPup
    I don’t think Kramer intimidated very many skaters. Jokes aside, hats off to Kramer for an unbelievable career.
  6. NearPup
    Swings deserves this so much, esp after doing all the work.
  7. NearPup
    At least she has two gold medals (one in both events where she fell) to go back home to. And everyone in the Japanese team had a gold from 2018, too. So hopefully that makes it less traumatic.
  8. NearPup
    Everyone is tied, give everyone gold medals that way can get it's first ever gold medal in alpine skiing :P
  9. NearPup
    That would certainly make it much more possible for countries with less resources than Germany to be more competitive. I know equipment is important in every winter sports, but I feel like in sliding sports it is close to reaching the point of absurdity.
  10. NearPup
    Disaster for .
  11. NearPup
    Because using intermediate points to determine places 7 to 10 is youth, urban and gender equal.
  12. NearPup
    That was also a problem with the alpine skiing team event - they considered cancelling it today because many skiers have flights booked for Sunday morning, and all the Monday flights are apparently booked.
  13. NearPup
    Diggins is praying for a 5k :P
  14. NearPup
    Can't wait for the women's 30km to be shortened to 15km tomorrow.
  15. NearPup
    Assuming the conditions allow it, of course :/ Glad they are trying at least.
  16. NearPup
    Women’s snowboard slopestyle in 2018 didn’t have qualifying. What would have been qualifying was used as a (farcical) final instead.
  17. NearPup
    The sleds definitively seem to be way, way better than any other sleds in the competition.
  18. NearPup
    Not to my knowledge, but I have a better grasp of Winter Olympic history than of Summer Olympic history.
  19. NearPup
    This would be the first cancelled winter Olympic event since 1928(!).
  20. NearPup
    They could and should have held it yesterday. Or even cancelled the contest and awarded medals based on qualification results (as shitty as that is). The conditions today were neither fair nor safe. Even though, somehow, the best athlete won (congrats to Nico Porteous btw, he fully deserves this).
  21. NearPup
    Freestyle skiing is now only the second sport where at least two countries from four different continents have won gold medals. Say what you will about the "flippy flippy" sports, they provide a level of diversity unmatched among skiing sports.
  22. NearPup
    Well they managed to get this ill advised, unfair and dangerous competition through without anyone dying. Congrats. Organizers fucked up, frankly at this point it would have been fairer to use qualifying scores to distribute the medals (even though I would have disliked that outcome in terms of who the medals would have gone to).
  23. NearPup
    No golds in freestyle skiing for the first time since 2002. There were four events then, thirteen now. Embarrassing.
  24. NearPup
    Well it's now official: for the first time since 2002, will not win any gold medals in freestyle skiing. When that last happened there were only four freestyle events. In Sochi and Pyeongchang Canada won four gold medals, when there were only ten events. In Beijing there are thirteen events and Canada won none. This is definitively a low, low point for the sport in Canada.
  25. NearPup
    Alternatively they could just award shared first place to all 15 teams.
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