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Where?! I have now found the official announcement PDF/event program, and it has a bit more, but still no full schedule Microsoft Word - Announcement ISU Short Track World Tour 2024-25_Montreal (a03.azurefd.net)

Sure, and I get it's all great for the climate and everything, but we want to know what we can watch and when

Starts in two days, but there appears to still be a distinct lack of any kind of schedule...? https://short-track.com/ What am I missing? @Josh Any chance you have more success in finding a schedule? There is no 'event page' or something, like you see in F1, MotoGP, every single FIS sport, etc. No menu, only a link to buy tickets, but...nothing else. Not even a start time (but of course we'd want to have the actual schedule and not just 'oh they start at 9-ish on Saturday morning'). Edit: the Speedskating Canada website isn't very helpful neither, although it does at least have a start time (but still no schedule that says exactly what's when). Also a 'Detailed schedule' button that leads back to the top of the page

I'm still rearranging things in my mind and I already voted as well I know the feeling

He literally said "I wouldn't be able to qualify for the Austrian team anymore" (apart from making it very clear his main reason to come back is because he also wants to end up representing his mother's country), so I highly doubt he is genuinely expecting to keep Odermatt away from his records

Wasn't that already his job at INEOS before becoming more known as a cyclist himself?

World Cups don't generally have the exotic competitors we see in the world championships though, it's more likely starting down with the 13th best Austrians and such

has voted and I have been told has also voted, so those can be crossed off.

Epic own goal for Sparta in the Dutch 1st division (or 2nd, whatever you call it, the one underneath the top flight ). At 1:00 in the video.

Marc Marquez with a horror start (saved it nicely though)....turns out it was because right before the start, he took off a tear-off from his visor, threw it away and it ended up under his own bike

That was Friday though, yesterday was better (although a seagull was destroyed by Miller) and today so far has not had any problem at all luckily

And a Dutch record for Nyls Korstanje behind him

Sure, but if you're 48, you've got two young children and a wife with a very strong form of MS, having 2 years left isn't exactly a great look. And that is, indeed, if those 2 years are somewhat 'healthy' instead of being full with painkillers and such.

Oh wow, says he has '2 to 4 years to live' (in so far doctors can do more than give a rough estimate with these things). Damn.

So let's hope it doesn't need to be moved Sundays are always a bit of a bummer for awesome things like this. Being all hyped while thinking about how it's almost time to get ready for work already

That's good to know. Not sure I'd have watched the finals sessions otherwise, but now I will later today, thanks.

She'd have a chance in the omnium, but would need someone strong for the madison. I think she'll take the road more seriously though, the only reason she did the scratch here was because her road season is over anyway

Too bad they haven't yet heard of the modern day thing called on-screen graphics. You know, details like the time, or results (judging by the morning session)

As long as that's all. Not showing the 2nd jump scores only makes sense if jump 1 was a normal, non-fall jump, and jump 2 was a fall. Otherwise, they both obviously need to be scored (and it makes no sense to not show the scores then).

Not sure about the year, but the last time we could actually do that on a lake was somewhere in the last 6 years, for a few days Almost every winter there are some outdoor competitions, mostly marathons, but that's on a track where they only need to freeze like 2cm of ice. For that you don't really need a 'strong' winter, unlike what you need for things like lakes to freeze.

Speed skating is relatively popular here (but definitely not like cycling and, as almost everywhere in the world, football). Conditions to skate outside are very rare, we almost never have an actual cold winter, sadly, and we as humans have made them even more rare (and hot summers more common, sadly). Not sure about Thialf/Heerenveen, but I assume they also make money from stuff like people going there to skate and train. The many teams in the Netherlands (we don't have a national team) for sure, but if I want I can also go there and go skate We have a few more covered tracks, but they're not really a big deal and more of a local thing and part of the national marathon cup. Single distance, sprint and allround championships are basically always in Heerenveen.

Yep, I am well aware of that, sadly As a lifelong fan of speed skating, I think the 2005 world single distance championships there are one of my fondest speed skating watching memories. That was fantastic, the world titles for the likes of Even Wetten, Barbara de Loor, Rune Stordal.... Nothing in speed skating beats outdoor events. The Universiade in Almaty...damn, that was just amazing, just like the one in Lake Placid!

I was in Collalbo last year and was so glad it wasn't covered Even in summer it felt like a magical place, I could see the first big succes of Sven Kramer and the legendary fight between Ireen Wüst and Martina Sablikova in my mind again, almost 20 years ago already. It's sadly unlikely, but I so much hope to see a big event there again (or in Almaty, that'd also be amazing).

Gotta start somewhere though, always cool to see a new country added to the ranks in speed skating

Rumours going around (for the 100th time, alright, but still) that terrorist leader Yahya Sinwar may have been killed. That'd be amazing news, although one can wonder how long verifying it is going to take.