Just a little sentence in ISU communication 1561, in which the World Cup Schedule was approved: "The Council further decided to remove the 100 meter distance...
Beorn Nijenhuis was Dutch champion (Juniors B) before he was a Dutch citizen, which prevented some results of him that season from becoming a Dutch (Junior)...
The malleable nature of nationality and citizenships is EXACTLY why the whole nationality-based quota/qualification system is an outdated anachronism. Does is...
More Vancouver tickets go on sale Thursday Olympics > Utahns showing little interest in 2010 Games By Mike Gorrell The Salt Lake Tribune 05/08/2009 Just seven...
Eric, I guess with all distances they mean sprint and allround, so it could be 10k or 5k for men and 5k or 3k for the ladies. Greetings, Dick...
Dick Pluim
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May 12, 2009 1:56 pm
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... The 100 m was an experiment that attracted few skaters and zero media attention, so the decision is understandable. New events should only be promoted to...
The 100m was doomed to fail because specialized skaters most of the times could not even participarte (Dutch kortebaan specialists e.g., people like Mark ...
... And all this for a reason: The idea was not at all a new one; it had been tried for 30 years without success. To promote a well documented failure to top...
... It's because the skaters want to have some time off to prepare for the rest of the season, otherwise they will fall behind all the other skaters who are...
From: Lars Finsen Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 6:20 PM The Challenger's Cup is really needed because it can fill some of the gaps, and perhaps primarily to give...
Olympian Kim Weger Hangs up her Skates Date posted: 05/15/2009 Following a successful 8-year career on Speed Skating Canadašs long track National Team,...
... That's very bad news. Unfortunately things like this (talented skaters quitting long before they've had a chance to reach their potential) have become the...
An Oval of Refuge From a Cold World New York Times / Published: May 16, 2009 This may be the last season of anonymity for the speedskater Trevor Marsicano....
Hi, I have updated my all-time ranking list after last season and published it at: http://www.ortygia.no/Skoyter/LISTE.htm Most interesting changes: Kramer is...
American speedskater Davis wins Norwegian award OSLO (AP) - American speedskater Shani Davis won Norway's 2008-9 season Oscar Award for speedskating on Tuesday...
Still it is a remarkable achievement to be able to do a 1000m in exact the same time as it takes your 1500m, no matter how sloppy the 1000m time was (even...
From: bennyryder@... To: speed_skating@... Subject: speed skating splits Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 20:43:13 -0500 Hi, I am looking for splits...
Ben Ryder
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May 20, 2009 6:48 am
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Congratulations Shani. ... From: Hans Wilbrink To: Speed_skating@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 6:11 PM Subject: [Skate] American speedskater...
Alex Dumas
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May 20, 2009 6:48 am
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... Excellent choice, sloppy writing. best regards Tore Jan Narvestad...
Perhaps you want to be a bit more specific. I can send you loads of laptimes of races in Groningen, NL but most of those races are not on a world class level...
Reitse Eskens
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May 20, 2009 9:04 am
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If you're doing study on pacing you might want to know the pairing as well, just lap times will not be enough. Can you specify which lap times you're after? ...
Where did this event take place? SkateResults.com says it was at Bislett, but isn't that "too early" for that stadion? The World Allround was e.g. still at...
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