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And of course her husband didn't start neither

Missed the pursuit by 0.2 seconds today

And today she competed in a sprint in Reykjavik where I opened the result because I was bored, and suddenly saw....Leila Mostaço

Ghiotto lapped Heidegger, it's now a real 10k in dcro's mind

Ghiotto vs Heidegger, time for some serious skating now

Races in places like Bosnia, Serbia and so on are also perfect examples of how incredibly important it is to choose your races wisely...Bruna very nearly beat Ilic on the 5k free earlier this week, which would have gotten her like 155 points here instead of 319.

Something with "Great minds think alike", I was going to this thread to post the exact same thing What a surprise she didn't start, I guess that's called the Dominican Disease

Waiting for snowboard moguls with a big air ramp in between the rhythm sections

No offense, but I hope this is the first and last time we see this At least as a serious event, it'd be fun as some sort of exhibition because people can see almost the entire race, but not even a single turn and then getting full World Cup points...no thanks

15:01,34, we have moved up to the 70's in terms of world record times They're at the times of our most legendary duo 'Ard and Keessie', Schenk and Verkerk who were always best of friends and won so many medals

And then all of a sudden, the 5th race only has one skater I mean, normally when there's an uneven amount of skaters they have the first race with only one skater..this is just weird (and it's not like someone DNS'ed, since on the start list they already had this too)

Not gonna happen, Ghiotto is skating against one of 2-3 others who could stay within half a minute of him

That's why officials are busy basically every lap with things to clear the snow away, something I've really not seen often at international competitions

This 10k today must be one of the best speed skating races I have ever seen (and I've seen a lot ) in terms of beauty and old-school and everything, I'm in love with this race

This is all just fantastic, rider sliding through the snow like he's an alpine skier, track workers on the ice during the races to take some snow away....I feel like I'm watching pictures of the times before the first Winter Olympics

15:27,01 in race 1 of the 10k, it would have been a world record in 1968

Snow at the track in Medeo again, these images are so beautiful They remind me of the 2005 single distance world champs in Inzell (which nowadays is very, very sadly an indoor track) when some unknown Norwegians took medals including gold and our Barbara de Loor suddenly won a world title

Lee Chae-won finishes 12th, the first ever top-12 finish for a Korean cross-country skier (male/female) Also the first time ever to have two Japanese in the top-10

Kowalczyk well on her way to her first top level win since the Sochi Olympics

"I hope to visit some other competitions and take in the 'Olympic' atmosphere in and around the Athlete's Village and the sports venues." Those are the exact words I wrote, take note at the 'Olympic' instead of only Olympic, they didn't see this nuance

I had totally missed this by the way, it's from 20 January already, another bit about Bruna https://almaty2017.com/media/blogs/2017/01/30/brazilskaya-sportsmenka-bruna-moura/ Guess who suggested telling about wanting to visit Medeo's legendary speed skating rink And she is mentioned in this local bit about the 5k classic.... http://wintersportalatau.kz/ru/news/1185-v_lyzhno_biatlonnom_komplekse_alatau_startovala_28_ja_vsemirnaja_zimnaja_universiada/ "Brazilian Bruna Moura so hard to start the race, which is one of the lifts lost her balance and fell. " Not entirely true, she didn't fall

Ouch

Sure, all top Scandinavians (among others) are at home preparing for Lahti But still, there were some decent names there and Lampic just destroyed them. It might give her the confidence for the real breakthrough (which is already coming this season because she's doing really well ).

Compared with both the sprint and pursuit in biathlon being a medal event at the Olympics, having two Gundersen events is the most fair thing ever

Now that's just silly