Recente Inhoud door Kristian

I guess we could imagine an invitational World Cup series, and regional qualifying series (i.e European Cup and so on) to the Championships (national or personal quotas). Those regional series also serving as ranking series in order to get invitations to the World Cup if you are not a star. Such...

An interesting quote from the protocol from "Skøytetinget" from mid june (dated 27/6): ""...ISU Technical Committee and Vice President commented (i.e.Haugen and Espeli): Major calendar changes are in store and the sizes of the World Cup Events are too large. Many nations use the World Cup as a...

"...Regarding updates to competition and sporting regulations, the new framework introduces a more nimble and ongoing system, dismantling the rigidity of the traditional biennial cycle. This means changes that do not affect Olympic plans can now be implemented swiftly, while those with broader...

One spot left. https://www.instagram.com/katjafranzen/p/DLLBEzmJpCH/

Should mean France and Belgium in A for the men, and and I just realized Italy and Norway for the women ;-) . 4 skaters will promote from B in the Mass Start by the way: 1-2-3 pluss an additional skater with most intermediate sprint points (if equal points, sprint finish will decide).

Dont have time to translate my post from 15.46.6 now, but most striking: promotion from B in the mass start the very same Week End as A. 8 teams in A for both gender on the TP. DNF in A will give you the same points as last place. Apparently no such thing for DQ and a (medical) DNS. Thus with a...

Yes, by comparing, the same bad wordings were also used last time, so WC3 will count in SOQCP for the 5k women and 10k, men. Would have been strange otherwise. :-) ...according to the ruling last time, it seems that all three skater on TP also then had to fulfill the "A-limit".

Special Olympic Qualification Classification Points (SOQCP) https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/News/2023/09/Milano-Cortina-2026-Qualification-System-Speed-Skating.pdf

I think its a little bit strange that the 10 k, men and 5k, women dont count in the SOQCP regarding those distances. 9 places on points, 3 on time.

The World Cup Communication is just around the corner. Document from the European Speed Skating Conference in April. https://15-46-6.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/European-Speed-Skating-Conference-2025.pdf Some interesting notes: 10k men/5k women provisionally to be held in Heerenveen, WC3...

Pro Team Calgary. https://www.instagram.com/katjafranzen/p/DJCm17EKsOf/ More to come (up to twelve it was initially said)

Team Gold. https://team-gold.net/ This season, our team consists of 7 skaters: • Ayano Sato (ANA) • Miho Takagi (TOKIO Inkarami) • Taiyo Nonomura (Hakujikai) • Ning Zhongyan – China • Mei Han – China ⭐︎New Members • Momoka Horikawa (Fujikyu Corporation) • Riku Tsuchiya (Hakudo) What happened...

Long Track, Russia: Alisa Bekker, Anastasia Grigorieva, Irina Salnikova, Alexandra Sayutina, Anastasia Semenova, Ksenia Korzhova, Daniil Naidenyshev (Only 10k), Ivan Fruktov.

European Speed Skarting Conference 2025 https://www.swesports.org/sweskating/nyheter-sweskating/nyheter/2025-05-02-european-speed-skating-conference-2025---fokus-pa-framtidens-skridskosport European Speed Skating Conference 2025 – focus on the future of speed skating How do we build a...

" 2030 Olympics, speed skating may not be held in Turin" https://nosalpes.eu/2025/04/15/olimpiadi-2030-forse-il-pattinaggio-di-velocita-non-sara-a-torino/ …On April 14, Solideo , the company in charge of the infrastructure to be set up for the 2030 Winter Olympics, was presented in Marseille ...