Is this the same tournament that has as its motto
"participation is more important than winning" ?

They should state lowland and highland limits for both indoor and outdoor
rinks, imho

When you skate in the open air on a lowland rink some of these limits are
too though
for even skaters like Shani Davis, Sven Kramer Anni Friesinger or Cindy
Classen.

Some people -or their unions- just cannot afford a trip to SLC or Calgary.

Dirk
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From: "Marcel Warnaar" <mwarnaar@...>
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 10:28 PM
To: <Speed_skating@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [Skate] Olympic qualification times

> These are very sharp qualification times. I guess potential candidates at
> least have to go to Calgary or SLC to skate these times. And even then: I
> calculated how many skaters would start, based on past season's results.
> So,
> with the World Cups as qualifying events and with these qualification
> times.
> Apart from the longest distances (with 16 participants), only the 1000m
> men
> would have a full quota (40 participants).
>
> The other distances:
> 500 m women: 34 (out of 36)
> 1000 m women: 34 (out of 36)
> 1500 m women: 27 (out of 36)
> 3000 m women: 21 (out of 28)
>
> 500 m men: 36 (out of 40)
> 1000 m men: 40 (out of 40)
> 1500 m men: 33 (out of 40)
> 5000 m men: 25 (out of 28)
>
> Marcel
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marnix Koolhaas" <m.koolhaas@...>
> To: <Speed_skating@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 3:31 AM
> Subject: [Skate] Olympic qualification times
>
>
>> Everybody asleep or nobody interested?
>>
>> In Ushuaia it is the talk of the town!
>>
>>
>>
>> 500 m
>>
>> 39,50
>>
>> 36,00
>>
>> 1000 m
>>
>> 1.18,50
>>
>> 1.11,00
>>
>> 1500 m
>>
>> 2.00,00
>>
>> 1.49,00
>>
>> 3000 m
>>
>> 4.15,00
>>
>> n.a.
>>
>> 5000 m
>>
>> 7.20,00 or 4.10,00 (3000 m)
>>
>> 6.35,00
>>
>> 10 0000 m
>>
>> n.a.
>>
>> 13.30.00 or 6.30.00 (5000 m)
>>
>>