dtd2 Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 Appearently everyone else in the arena knew it was over for him except Kramer and the American commentators. NBC was showing the jumping in the Nordic Combined. After that finished, they went to Kramer skating. They went to speedskating almost right when he made this erorr. The commentators thought he did the right thing by staying where he was and not entering the other lane. Then when they showed the South Korean basically celebrating, the commentators said something along the lines, "He knows that the gold is slipping away from him (Referring to the South Korean)." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micheal_warren Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 wow thats a massive mistake that will stay with hime for the rest of his life! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4seasonscentre Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 Appearently everyone else in the arena knew it was over for him except Kramer and the American commentators. NBC was showing the jumping in the Nordic Combined. After that finished, they went to Kramer skating. They went to speedskating almost right when he made this erorr. The commentators thought he did the right thing by staying where he was and not entering the other lane. Then when they showed the South Korean basically celebrating, the commentators said something along the lines, "He knows that the gold is slipping away from him (Referring to the South Korean)." double fail! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotosy Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 Kramer, the world champion and record-holder at both distances, blamed his coach Gerard Kemkers for the mistake, the Vancouver Sun reported. "Usually, I don't want to blame anyone else, I take responsibility as the skater on the ice. But this time I can't do anything else,'' the son of two-time Olympic speed skater Yep Kramer told reporters after the race. "I wanted to go on the outer lane, then just before the cone Gerard shouted, 'Inner lane!' I thought he was probably right. At first I thought my skates passed the cone on the wrong side, and I will be disqualified. Then I noticed in the stadium, something was wrong. Kramer will have the chance to bounce back and try to claim a second gold in the team pursuit event on Saturday http://edition.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/02/24/olympics.sven.kramer.skating/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotosy Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 (failed to add it) Kemkers, a former speed skater who won a bronze medal in the 5,000m at Calgary in 1988, was also devastated by the turn of events, the Vancouver Sun reported. "My world collapsed. This is a disaster. This is the worst moment in my career. Sven was right, I was wrong,'' he said Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotosy Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 Ladies's 5000m: 1st: Sabrikova -Czech Republic 2nd: Beckert - Germany 3rd: Hugues - Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRZJRZ Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 And the Dutch speed skater who lost a possible Gold medal because of a mental error. WOW! Why that's almost as bad as the Canadian hockey team losing to the Americans. OOPPS they did, HHMMM. I may have to eat these words later but, for now WOO HOO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apple Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 Great job by Clara! A great olympian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 Can someone explain the team pursuit format? Why is Germany, Netherlands and Canada on the same side of the bracket while the other side has Poland, Russia, Japan and Korea and same with the men's Canada vs Italy in the quarters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckfan Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 Can someone explain the team pursuit format? Why is Germany, Netherlands and Canada on the same side of the bracket while the other side has Poland, Russia, Japan and Korea and same with the men's Canada vs Italy in the quarters? It's based on the world cup ranking. Germany and the Netherlands weren't really sucessful and finished 4th and 5th. (Russia 2nd, Japan 3rd). With Klassen and Schussler skating so slowly these last two weeks, it will probably be a struggle to even win bronze. Same thing for the guys, if they even get by Italy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox334 Posted February 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 Ya, the ISU stupidly got rid of the ranking round Anyway, I'm not really confident that we will medal in either team pursuit, considering how bad our speed skaters have been performing in Vancouver. And to say that before the games I considered the women's TP to be a lock for gold... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 Well Canada got by Italy in an Olympic Record time. Norway just barely gets through along with USA and Netherlands. The Canadians are a win away from a medal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox334 Posted February 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 Ya, the ISU stupidly got rid of the ranking round Anyway, I'm not really confident that we will medal in either team pursuit, considering how bad our speed skaters have been performing in Vancouver. And to say that before the games I considered the women's TP to be a lock for gold... How the **** did we lose against the Americans? Brutal Olympics for the long track team... That was our best gold medal chance in any event going into those games... Its great to see how the coaching staff made sure our team would peak at the right time, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 Poland upsets Russia and the USA upset Canada. Unbelievable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox334 Posted February 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 Poland upsets Russia and the USA upset Canada. Unbelievable. Well, gota love the lack of a ranking round Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 Sh!t happens. But even than it is shocking that Canada lost to the USA. 4 individual medals vs. 0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox334 Posted February 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 Also, on a side note, the only two teams that had a faster time that Canada is Germany and the US, which means Canada would have won 5 out of a possible 7 match-ups... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4seasonscentre Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 Very disappointing results from both long and short track. All our medals are coming from Cypress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox334 Posted February 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 The men's TP final tomorow will be Canada-USA, with Norway and the Netherlands fighting for bronze. The women's semis will be Japan-Poland and Germany-USA. BTW, aparently Canada actually had the second fastest time of any team in the quarterfinals, yet they still got eliminated. The ISU might want to bring back the seeding round for Sochi... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckfan Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 Well in the end we did better that the Netherlands But seriously they were like 6-7 seconds faster than the americans 2 months ago. How can you lose 6-7 seconds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtd2 Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 Both the American men and women's performance was nothing short of amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox334 Posted February 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2010 Epic, epic, EPIC women's semifinals in the TP. Japan had a lead of over a second against Poland, but Poland nearly came back, loosing by only 0.19 seconds. If that wasn't exiting enough, Germany had a huge lead over the US but with less that half a lap left, Anni Frisinger hit the wall, nearly fell before the line and then fell about 20m before the line, but Germany still, somehow won by 0.23s, with her head breaking the tape. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apple Posted February 27, 2010 Report Share Posted February 27, 2010 GOLD!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olympian Posted March 13, 2010 Report Share Posted March 13, 2010 just rewatched clara hughes's post 5000m race interview. very good interview. will really miss her. <object width="576" height="324" allowfullscreen="true"><param name="movie" value="http://d.yimg.com/m/up/ypp/sports/player.swf"><param'>http://d.yimg.com/m/up/ypp/sports/player.swf"><param name="flashVars" value="vid=18333494"><embed width="576" height="324" allowfullscreen="true" src="http://d.yimg.com/m/up/ypp/sports/player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="vid=18333494"></object> dang.. can't embed. here's just the link Speedskating: Clara Hughes celebrates her bronze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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