What I recall: There was a flu that had affected e.g. Daniela Anschütz. Then Claudia started and skated the first day, but it was not as good as expected! ...
With my personal experience with the art of medicine and blood tests, I'm the first one to believe any dsuggestion that tests might not be neither accurate nor...
Of course the Argentine speed skating world was shocked as well by the latest ISU-communications, but in spite of that we managed to arrange the first day of...
Marnix Koolhaas
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Jul 4, 2009 10:34 pm
44206
In a very neat interview on German Television (why don't we have such quality here?) Claudia Pechstein was able to express her side of the story. I saw a...
I read a lot of dope accused sporters trying to defend themselves, but reading her website post (in german), following her 15 years on tele, The Germans vs...
Tim Wolfkamp
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Jul 5, 2009 1:55 pm
44208
... Considering what has obviously happened in this case - how it has all been handled, I simply can't avoid asking myself the following question: What is...
... Pechstein is gone and she can forget going for her sixth Olympic Winter Games unless she appeals to the CAS. As a matter of fact she can retire right now,...
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Jul 6, 2009 8:51 pm
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Fortunately the 2nd day showed better ice after a light freeze during the night. As soon as daylight permitted, we started working on the track and at 1000h...
Marnix Koolhaas
m.koolhaas@...
Jul 6, 2009 10:44 pm
44213
For those who understand German: see the letter of a German lawyer For those who don't: either nothing or maybe someone wishes to translate? Wishing all the...
I'll try to translate disclaimer: German is decidedly my third language, so there may be nuances implied in the original letter which has been incorrectly ...
Beatrice Pfister ist als Richterin Mitglied der Disziplinarkommission des Eislauf-Weltverbandes ISU, die Claudia Pechstein wegen eines Dopingvergehens für...
... From: Håkon Mørk To: Speed_skating@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 11:00 PM Subject: Re: [Skate] Letter from German lawyer/DESG I'll try to...
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 ...
Marnix Koolhaas
m.koolhaas@...
Jul 10, 2009 1:32 am
44219
... 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...
... When speed skating was Norway's most popular winter sports, the totally amateur participants from 'exotic' countries were always among the public's...
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...
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...
... ISU needs some way to select them. ... The ISU started its limitation policy long before the IOC came to think of it, and they apply them to their own ISU...
... Well, as a matter of fact there was no participation limit until the 1924 OG where each country could enter only 4 skaters in each distance. As this...
... That's national quotas. Qualification times were introduced by the ISU in the 1980's; originally to avoid skaters from Spain and Greece. ... TBH...
As presented in Bild Zeitung http://www.bild.de/BILD/sport/mehr-sport/2009/07/07/claudia-pechstein/verweis-statistik,property=Download.jpg [Non-text portions...
... Well, yeah, but your remark was that "speed skating is hurting itself by limiting its participation (...) to pursuit a dream of live TV coverage", which is...
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