A team won in the Mixed Doubles(click to show/hide)
I've just seen a photo of a speed skater and was struck by their helmet-free head.Did it hurt?
Not as much as ice skate karate kick.I've just seen a photo of a speed skater and was struck by their helmet-free head.Did it hurt?
A team won in the Mixed Doubles(click to show/hide)
give us a clue as to which of the Winter Olympic events the mixed doubles won in?
PS I thought the Winter Olympics hadn't started yet
Not as much as ice skate karate kick.I've just seen a photo of a speed skater and was struck by their helmet-free head.Did it hurt?
A team won in the Mixed Doubles(click to show/hide)
give us a clue as to which of the Winter Olympic events the mixed doubles won in?
PS I thought the Winter Olympics hadn't started yet
Apologies - my post was in response to the post above, so I didn't put the sport in it...
Karate on ice should absolutely be an Olympic sport. As should sumo on thin ice.
Speed skaters wear helmets according to risk, so 1-on-1 races don't need them but 4-up or relay races do. A bit like CTT's formerly enlightened attitude.
The new olympic 10k champion Niels van der Poel (Sweden) followed the same reasoning as I did but combined this with some serious technique and speed. Finally a 10k racer who really trains in summer!
If I lived in the right country, I'd really like to try bobsleigh.I like hockey lids as they seem to last more than one hit, speed skating lids are basically standard cycling fair with the air holes filled in to slow blade ingress. ("Road aero" before that was a thing)
The new olympic 10k champion Niels van der Poel (Sweden) followed the same reasoning as I did but combined this with some serious technique and speed. Finally a 10k racer who really trains in summer!
Hi Ivo, great to hear of another (proper) speed skater on here, the Fen Lads would be happy to hear of another marathon skater.
Niels has just published a long PDF on his training if you are interested. https://howtoskate.se (https://howtoskate.se)
Curling is just bowls made complicated. Imagine bowls where your team-mates were allowed to attack the green with lawnmowers? No, because that would be silly.
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I must admit 9 was confused by what happened and the subtitles weren’t exactly helpful. I gathered it was something to,do with crossover etiquette/ rules but that was about all.
I find freestyle skiing and pretty much all snowboarding a bit silly, with points for showing off. I prefer the racing or timed events. Ski cross is good fun, though: a bit like BMX racing.
I'll admit to not taking a great deal of interest in the Olympics but have heard that equipment in the sliding sports are being blamed for not being as advanced as other nations. If this is the case is there an argument for standard bobsleighs, skis, skates etc being issued by the organisers?
I think there's a precedent for this is the summer Olympics where Laser dinghys are supplied.
I'll admit to not taking a great deal of interest in the Olympics but have heard that equipment in the sliding sports are being blamed for not being as advanced as other nations. If this is the case is there an argument for standard bobsleighs, skis, skates etc being issued by the organisers?
I think there's a precedent for this is the summer Olympics where Laser dinghys are supplied.
I'll admit to not taking a great deal of interest in the Olympics but have heard that equipment in the sliding sports are being blamed for not being as advanced as other nations. If this is the case is there an argument for standard bobsleighs, skis, skates etc being issued by the organisers?
I think there's a precedent for this is the summer Olympics where Laser dinghys are supplied.
you’d need to introduce standard waxing
I'll admit to not taking a great deal of interest in the Olympics but have heard that equipment in the sliding sports are being blamed for not being as advanced as other nations. If this is the case is there an argument for standard bobsleighs, skis, skates etc being issued by the organisers?
I think there's a precedent for this is the summer Olympics where Laser dinghys are supplied.
Skates are very personal. I'd dare to state that the top end skates in speedskating are in principle all as fast. You'll have to choose the skate fitting best to your style and feet. Also the exact rounding of the skate has to fit to your technique.
Suits can be different but not to the extend that it makes a major difference, as long as a good taylor is employed to ensure that the suit fits exactly to the skaters body. Mind you, they are ultra tight, you're kind of shoehorned into them.
For skaters from 'small' speedskating countries there used to be the Inzell academy where they could train together.
For skaters from 'small' speedskating countries there used to be the Inzell academy where they could train together.
When UK "restarted" long track speed skating we stayed there (though not as part academy), I still tend to stay there when in Inzell.
We are lucky that most of the current top GB long trackers have places to train in Holland, some with trade teams, the middle bit (or which I like to think I sit) has to make do with short track and jumping on the ferry for Holland once a month. I also have a stock pair of Vikings :-)
Son & partner/partner's family were up bright and early cheering on the BattlingBRITISHFINNISH Boys in the Ice Hockey. I think they enjoyed it.
UK restarted quite late. Way too late for a good young lady who was in the offing (at that time skating for Young Orange, having a UK father and Dutch mother). Later she won gold for the Netherlands at Olympic rowing (you may know her name ;) ).
UK restarted quite late. Way too late for a good young lady who was in the offing (at that time skating for Young Orange, having a UK father and Dutch mother). Later she won gold for the Netherlands at Olympic rowing (you may know her name ;) ).
I don't know the name, I can see four possibilities and a process of elimination makes me think Maaike Head.
Seems to be some Rowing/Skating cross over, when we have the "launch" event in Inzell we had a rowing (and cycling) gold medallist come to try long track.