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Well, despite all that, we are effectively like Bolivia: still only 1 skier allowed and still no WYOG medal. 

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) 

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  

116 year old competing.
 

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

5th place for Meillard with BIB 40, wtf 
 
This girl is such an insane talent 

exactly, it´s the reason I found in many czech articles about his Nationality changements reasons
 
http://sport.idnes.cz/rychlobruslar-druszkiewicz-cesko-d5w-/sporty.aspx?c=A151209_153437_sporty_tof

He already competed for CZE since last season. Well, he didn't compete at all in all of 2015, but at the end of last season he started competing for CZE. I guess because he has been a member of Sablikova's team for quite a while now.

The season is finally getting underway for real 
 
World Cup in Harbin, China, started earlier today with the B-division in three distances. Starting in 2 minutes, these three distances will have the A-divisions (the real deal): women's 500m, men's 5000m (let's go Peter Michael ), women's 3000m. 
 
In case anyone is interested, Dutch public TV shows all A-divisions live here (don't know if it works outside NED)
http://nos.nl/livestream/2141922-schaatsen-wb-harbin.html

It's all for fun, no problem if it's moved a week or two weeks or three weeks  

In sporting terms it's like asking someone to choose between Mekhissi-Benabad and Justin Gatlin for the award of "best role model for athletics"

Mostly they don't, actually. Then still, if marijuana is illegal, make alcohol and tobacco (and coffee/cafeine and sugar and so on) illegal too. 
 
Or, educate everyone about the risks of all those things and let everyone decide for themselves. My point is, keeping marijuana illegal and alcohol/tobacco etc legal is nothing more than stupid
 
 

So today is the day, piece of crap VS piece of shit in the US elections  

So today is the day, piece of crap VS piece of shit in the US elections  

Is it a free day?  
 
Here we have it on weekdays usually I think, I remember last time it was on a Wednesday (my birthday in 2012  ). It's definitely not a free day here though and I see no reason why it should be..I mean, there's a ton of places where you can vote and voting doesn't take a whole lot of time, so it can easily be done after work. 

The Netherlands dominated Olympic speed skating like that exactly once, in Sochi. It would be a miracle if that happens again in 2018, it's just not realistic to expect anything close to Sochi (when literally everything fell exactly in place). Even in the most Dutch of all distances, the 10k, the best guy in the world right now is Canadian  (although he used to represent the Netherlands)
 
And a decent medal chance means that a medal is at least realistically possible, let's say at least 15-20% chance. Peter Michael normally won't medal for New Zealand, but his incredibly impressive debut season shows that he definitely does have more than just a very small chance
 
 

To move the discussion about normal speed skating away from the short track thread..
 
- Canada
- United States
 
- Netherlands
- Germany
- Norway
- Finland
- Belgium
- Austria
- Russia
- Czech Republic
- Poland
 
- China
- South Korea
- Japan
 
- Australia
- New Zealand
 
That's 16 countries from 4 continents who have at least a decent medal chance in speed skating 

cheater referees 

cheater referees 

Dude, that's the most awesome reason I have seen to postpone something like this 

There's only Trump and Clinton to choose sadly...that's like asking if you want to have pizza with shit on it for dinner or if you prefer a pancake with shit on it...both are just really shitty choices 
 
I would have clicked on any 3rd party candidate if they had given them a chance  

"The goaltender is also known as the goalie, [1]goaler,[2]goalkeeper,[2]net minder, and tendy by those involved in the hockey community."
 
According to Wikipedia Net minder sounds funny.

and btw..in ice hockey it´s a goaltender or just goalie