World Cup Rant
The Infamous Hand of God I’m just going to warn everyone now, this is going to be one of my least-coherent rants to date. It is sometimes said that I have a “soft [more...]
News
The Australians Are Coming
Team photo from the world cup in Salt Lake City. L-R: Harry Oosterhuis, Rogina De Jong, Daniel Grieg, Sophie Muir, Joshua Lose, Desly Hill, Marie Walth Perkins, Daniel Yeow [more...]
Speed Skating Daily: Team Pursuit Final
Team Germany crosses the line despite a fall on the last straight… These olympics continue to surprise and inspire. Most unusual of the aftermath of the preliminaries [more...]
Speed Skating Daily: Team Pursuit Preliminaries
The Canadian women's team on their way to a world record The ladies’ 5000m was without incident nor any significant surprises (which itself is a bit of a surprise [more...]
Speed Skating Daily: Ladies’ 5000m
Elma and Martina have a cuddle after their 5k at a world cup last season Just when I thought this Olympics couldn’t get more unpredictable, the men’s 10,000m [more...]
Speed Skating Daily: Men’s 10,000m
Bob de Jong The ladies’ 1500m result was, characteristically for the games, a surprise. Inspired by countryman Mark Tuitert’s spectacular win in the 1500m, Ireen [more...]
Speed Skating Daily: Ladies’ 1500m
Despite appearences, this is Kristina Groves just after she WON the 1500m at the Calgary World Cup I’m beginning to think that I may be better off simply putting the [more...]
Speed Skating Daily: Men’s 1500m
Chad Hedrick in the final lap of his 1500m in Calgary Canada finally brought home the gold with Christine Nesbitt’s gutsy win the 1000m. The slow ice causing problems [more...]
Speed Skating Daily: Womens’ 1000m
Nesbitt leads Slow ice conditions meant that many of the skaters in the men’s 1000m “popped” before the finish, and were unable to skate strongly all the [more...]
Speed Skating Daily: Men’s 1000m
One word: Shani The (South) Koreans seem bent on messing up my predictions. Lee Sang Hwa skated brilliantly to hold off a second-race charge from Jenny Wolf who asserted her [more...]
Speed Skating Daily: Ladies’ 500m
Jenny Wolf vs Beixing Wang A suspenseful running of the men’s 500m concluded yesterday with 21st-birthday-boy Mo Tae Bum being the only person to go under 35 seconds on [more...]
Speed Skating Daily: Men’s 500m
Joji Kato nears the end of the first 100m of his 500m Yesterday’s women’s 3000m was no surprise at all. Sablikova won the Czech Republic’s first gold medal [more...]
Speed Skating Daily: Ladies’ 3000m
Who do you think will win the 3k? I was kinda hoping that I would… There were a few surprises in yesterday’s men’s 5000m. Sven Kramer won in olympic record [more...]
Predictions, Part 1
The moment the gun fires Predictions for the first half of the speed skating competition. (I would have had this up much earlier, but it took hours to render then even longer [more...]