--- In Speed_skating@yahoogroups.com, Marnix Koolhaas <m.koolhaas@...> wrote:
>
> Everybody asleep or nobody interested?
>
> In Ushuaia it is the talk of the town!

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> 1500 m
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> 2.00,00
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> 1.49,00
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> 3000 m
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> 4.15,00
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> n.a.
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> 5000 m
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> 7.20,00 or 4.10,00 (3000 m)
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> 6.35,00
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> 10 0000 m
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> n.a.
>
> 13.30.00 or 6.30.00 (5000 m)


Actually, I see a lot of skaters that will miss these marks in Vancouver.... I
think that is funny you have to skate faster than what you will skate at the
games. I know altitude.... but it still makes me giggle about the absurd time
standard rules that the ISU/IOC has to make to make the sport look smaller that
it even is. (my personal opinion).

BTW, have you seen who is named as one of the most "EXCITING ATHLETES" of winter
sports along side speedskater Dan Jensen? Not Eric Heiden, not Bonnie Blair,
not Derrek Parra (slanted to the american public since this was an American
publication). No, it was.....

Take a look at who is at number 10 and number 5 (both of which would never have
taken part in winter Olympcs had standards been imposed back then) Maybe their
only sin is that they FOR SURE did not take "performance enhancing" substances:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/tim_layden/06/26/thrill.list/index\
.html

From SLC, where the ice is up and will be open next week.

Eric Kraan.