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Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics!
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| Selwink |
Posted on 16-02-2014 15:32
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1500m Women Ice Skating
1. Jorien ter Mors (NED)
2. Ireen Wüst (NED)
3. Lotte van Beek (NED)
4. Marrit Leenstra (NED)
4 Dutch participants in total, they distributed the top-4
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 16-02-2014 15:33
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Pechstein 19th
I expected a bit more 
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| Selwink |
Posted on 16-02-2014 15:33
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SSJ2Luigi wrote:
Pechstein 19th
I expected a bit more
Well, Pechstein is better at the longer distances, the 3000 and 5000. She was just preparing for the 5000 here.
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| kubys |
Posted on 16-02-2014 17:04
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Ffs I just realized that we got Slovakia in the shutout round.
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| ruben |
Posted on 16-02-2014 17:20
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The Dutch now have the most medals of any country in the olympics  |
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 16-02-2014 17:21
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ruben wrote:
The Dutch now have the most medals of any country in the olympics
Indeed. Too many speed skating events I think. |
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 16-02-2014 17:24
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Faillu wrote:
SSJ2Luigi wrote:
viking90 wrote:
SSJ2Luigi wrote:
why was Biathlon rescheduled?
Fog.
yeah you can't really shoot without good sight, then these kind of things happen
Are they dead?! Did they get shot instead of the targets?!
It's a joke. They're just exhausted  |
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| cactus-jack |
Posted on 16-02-2014 17:39
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FroomeDog99 wrote:
ruben wrote:
The Dutch now have the most medals of any country in the olympics
Indeed. Too many speed skating events I think.
Too many dutch people.
There's a fine line between "psychotherapist" and "psycho the rapist"
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 16-02-2014 17:42
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Normally some other nationalities, most notably the USA, at least make it harder for us.
But well, not this time
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 16-02-2014 17:54
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Faillu wrote:
FroomeDog99 wrote:
Faillu wrote:
SSJ2Luigi wrote:
viking90 wrote:
SSJ2Luigi wrote:
why was Biathlon rescheduled?
Fog.
yeah you can't really shoot without good sight, then these kind of things happen
Are they dead?! Did they get shot instead of the targets?!
It's a joke. They're just exhausted
What the heck... How can they be exhausted, if the event was rescheduled?
A previous event, held on a different day.  |
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| ruben |
Posted on 16-02-2014 18:14
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FroomeDog99 wrote:
ruben wrote:
The Dutch now have the most medals of any country in the olympics
Indeed. Too many speed skating events I think.
That's like saying too many running events in the summer olympics.
*facepalm*
Speed skating has been there since the beginning of the winter olympics. It belongs |
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 16-02-2014 18:25
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FroomeDog99 wrote:
ruben wrote:
The Dutch now have the most medals of any country in the olympics
Indeed. Too many speed skating events I think.
You can't say that as a Brit considering amount of gold medals you get at track events in Olympics :-P
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 16-02-2014 18:33
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Alakagom wrote:
FroomeDog99 wrote:
ruben wrote:
The Dutch now have the most medals of any country in the olympics
Indeed. Too many speed skating events I think.
You can't say that as a Brit considering amount of gold medals you get at track events in Olympics :-P
Just because I'm a Brit doesn't mean I think that's a good thing But yeah, that's our area of dominance. |
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 16-02-2014 18:39
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FroomeDog99 wrote:
Alakagom wrote:
FroomeDog99 wrote:
ruben wrote:
The Dutch now have the most medals of any country in the olympics
Indeed. Too many speed skating events I think.
You can't say that as a Brit considering amount of gold medals you get at track events in Olympics :-P
Just because I'm a Brit doesn't mean I think that's a good thing But yeah, that's our area of dominance.
just look at it this way, how higher they fly how harder they come crashing done. (Pyeongchang's gonna suck  )
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 16-02-2014 18:50
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ruben wrote:
FroomeDog99 wrote:
ruben wrote:
The Dutch now have the most medals of any country in the olympics
Indeed. Too many speed skating events I think.
That's like saying too many running events in the summer olympics.
*facepalm*
Speed skating has been there since the beginning of the winter olympics. It belongs
Olympic sports should be universally competitive imo, and indeed it's a requirement for new sports being selected. At least running has a few different nations contesting the medals across the distances (there is some dominance though like Jamaican in the sprints though, I admit).
Sure, some countries are better than others at sport but this is pretty ridiculous, is that 3 1-2-3's now? Not saying it shouldn't be included, but I don't think a single sport should make a country the most successful at the Olympics. |
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| jph27 |
Posted on 16-02-2014 18:52
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Make it like in the track cycling with one spot per nation. Simple. |
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 16-02-2014 18:53
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But as said, this isn't normal.
Most other countries were really disappointing, we weren't considered the favourites in all of them, let alone that people expected 1-2-3s.
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| cactus-jack |
Posted on 16-02-2014 19:06
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It's sort of the same with swimming in the summer olympics. When you talk about the "All-time Olympian" it's based on medals, and it's almost allways a swimmer who leads on.
Say you can take a gold medal in three Olympiads, that's probably the most one person can do without being exceptionaly good.
A swimmer can take 24(8 swimming events?) gold medals in his career, whilst a pole vaulter can take 3. Who's the better athlete? Hard to say.
There's a fine line between "psychotherapist" and "psycho the rapist"
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 16-02-2014 19:08
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cactus-jack wrote:
It's sort of the same with swimming in the summer olympics. When you talk about the "All-time Olympian" it's based on medals, and it's almost allways a swimmer who leads on.
Say you can take a gold medal in three Olympiads, that's probably the most one person can do without being exceptionaly good.
A swimmer can take 24(8 swimming events?) gold medals in his career, whilst a pole vaulter can take 3. Who's the better athlete? Hard to say.
*cough* Michael Phelps *cough*
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| Dippofix |
Posted on 16-02-2014 19:09
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SSJ2Luigi wrote:
cactus-jack wrote:
It's sort of the same with swimming in the summer olympics. When you talk about the "All-time Olympian" it's based on medals, and it's almost allways a swimmer who leads on.
Say you can take a gold medal in three Olympiads, that's probably the most one person can do without being exceptionaly good.
A swimmer can take 24(8 swimming events?) gold medals in his career, whilst a pole vaulter can take 3. Who's the better athlete? Hard to say.
*cough* Michael Phelps *cough*
Track Cycling is the same, it's really weird.
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