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7th place for Dave Ryding if nothing weird happens, incredible Best result for a British man in over 15 years!! All GBR top-9 finishes in World Cup history: There's also Chemmy Alcott who had a 7th place and three 9th place finishes in the past 12 years. She, however, is not a man

Is Christchurch "your" city in NZ by the way? And the reports vary apparently, I just read some analysis guy saying it could have been magnitude 8 for 90 seconds, which is messed up..

@Wanderer, you alright? 7.4, half an hour ago and only at 10km depth..that's not good.

Although I doubt Bolivia has juniors that are amongst the best in the world

Burkina Faso and Swaziland, cool

That sounds like the phrase "we will never win World Cup points again" is quite an exaggeration

Breitfuss Kammerlander > Myhrer

Steven Theolier DNF, wonderful debut for the Netherlands

By the way, 2nd place for young Chinese Tingyu Gao in the men's 500m...34,99 on this crappy ice in his A-group debut, that is freaking impressive

I wish there was a bookmaker offering odds for "Will the Netherlands equal their number of speed skating medals from Sochi 2014?", I would bet €100 on "No" if the odds are ok (Although the odds would be more like 1.02 I think )

The chance of winning that medals in Sochi was like 1%...the fact that it actually happened doesn't mean that this time it is much more likely

He has been very good for a very long time, with ups and downs in between Sort of like a B-version of Pekka Koskela, who was sometimes amazing (like all of a sudden breaking the 1000m WR when nobody was even paying real attention), and in other times just didn't seem interested and finished like 15th.

Roman Krech finishes 11th and Kulizhnikov wins. We're back to normal

I really hope we will completely dominate the mass start...I know it won't happen, but if it does, that would be a great chance to get rid of that idiot event immediatly And realistically speaking, a repeat of Sochi is of course extremely unlikely

Pedro Causil finished 9th in the B-division with another big improvement in his time, which means the very first Colombian World Cup point ever in a normal event (distances instead of that completely senseless mass start)

Oh man, Van Gerwen is piiiiiiiissed off at Wolfie for all the smiling during the match "I don't like it at all, come on..he's just smiling and everything, if you don't care about it, just stay home."

The match is under way now, let's go Wolfie It'd be an awesome moment to beat MVG, with his cancer problems and all. Let's do this.

They played 3 times before, all 3 times in 2006, when Mighty Mike was still that small teenage guy with hair who was stunning the world by being the biggest talent ever (considering his age and the incredible way he was playing) That was before his level dropped down to nothing special (I believe a 1st round exit at Lakeside), before a few years later it became his current insane level The last MVG vs Wolfie was the 2006 Winmau World Masters, where MVG won and became the youngest winner of a major ever (17)

I just noticed it's not actually they're debut They competed in the 2013-14 season (both Dobbin brothers once with Daniel Nation and once with Reyon Kay), but there were no A/B-divisions in the team pursuit at that time

21 years old, 20 World Cup slalom victories and 9 consecutive victories. That's just absolutely incredible

Hansdotter Podium for Vlhova

Holy...nice run Petra

That red piste in Levi is beautiful

I'm surprised that apparently it is their A-division debut They've got a seriuosly good team, especially if Kay can improve a bit more. Dobbin is already there for a while but seems to be on his way back a little, but especially Michael is seriously world class. It wouldn't even be a huge surprise if he medals in Pyeongchang

In his entire career his best finishes were 6th, 6th, 8th and 10th And to be fair, his time is actually really good on this crappy ice