website statistics
Jump to content

heywoodu

Totallympics Legend
  • Posts

    46,398
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    587

 Content Type 

Forums

Events

Totallympics International Song Contest

Totallympics News

Qualification Tracker

Test

Published Articles

Everything posted by heywoodu

  1. In 1987, Karin Kania was the first ever to go sub-2:00 In 2001, Anni Friesinger was the first ever to go sub-1:55 In 2005, Cindy Klassen was the first ever to go sub-1:53 AND sub-1:52 In 2015, Heather Bergsma was the first ever to go sub-1:51 In 2019, Miho Takagi is the first ever to go sub-1:50
  2. Kelly Catlin, 23 years old, has ended her life this weekend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Catlin Olympic silver and three world titles, all in the team pursuit.
  3. Brittany Bowe shatters Heather Bergsma's 1500m WR, pretty cool after shitloads of injuries, random nearly-faintings and other weird and painful stuff.
  4. Here we go for day 2. The only record I really hope for is Ireen Wüst to break the 1500m WR, since that has always been a big dream of hers and it'd be really cool to do it as sort of a memory for Paulien van Deutekom (who's stuff is being auctioned these days to fund the fight against lung cancer).
  5. They do that all the freaking time. Same for World Cups or something (and same for FIL in the luge). IBSF is by far the best: live streams on YouTube (bonus points for best platform), with neutral thumbnails (bonus points for no spoilers) and replayable after it's finished (bonus points for being able to watch whenever you want).
  6. Yeah, and I really doubt he'd be considered more of a winner than someone who won tons of World Cups but happened to not make it at the Olympics
  7. You win 26 World Cups, get 80+ podiums but have no Olympic medals, so people call you a loser You get no podium in World Cups, accidentally stumble upon an Olympic medal when you happen to have one fantastic day at the right moment and people will call you a winner forever
  8. Yeah, I don't think someone like Wierer or Makarainen needs random people to tell her them they could have won more than (in Wierer's case) a world championships silver (and two Olympic medals with relays by the way), pretty sure they know that. Makarainen is one of the greatest without a doubt, yet has zero Olympic medals...meaning she's a loser?
  9. Schulting came back and took the world title. Lara van Ruijven attacked twice early on and then was 'empty' (she's a sprinter, so that's not strange), but she was lapped and forgot to skate her last lap because she started celebrating with Schulting, leading to a DNF which cost her a sensational bronze medal in the overall standings
  10. Arguably the kind of comment that makes athletes lose motivation. Poliakova-style.
  11. Herrmann taking the gold by going on the attack in the standing shooting
  12. Statistically speaking Eckhoff is more likely to crumble than Herrmann (although yeah, both are quite likely to do so )
  13. Aaaaand the two Algerian women drawn against an Israeli athlete completely disappeared from the draw, surprise!
  14. 1:42.9 or something for Roest tonight and he takes over first place in the Adelskalendern. Which would be a bit of a shame in my opinion, since Shani Davis apart from being cool was also incredibly allround (winning both allround and sprint championships in the post-80's era is incredible).
  15. Most athletes are right at their main peak period, end of February to early March. It's not the first time athletes try and get their peak a little later when the last competition of the season is in Calgary or Salt Lake.
×
×
  • Create New...