Drugs in Sport
Take your pick It’s been a while since I’ve penned a controversial post. Experience (and my web stats) have shown me that the most popular posts on this website [more...]
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World Cup Rant
The Infamous Hand of God I’m just going to warn everyone now, this is going to be one of my least-coherent rants to date. It is sometimes said that I have a “soft [more...]
The Australians Are Coming
Team photo from the world cup in Salt Lake City. L-R: Harry Oosterhuis, Rogina De Jong, Daniel Grieg, Sophie Muir, Joshua Lose, Desly Hill, Marie Walth Perkins, Daniel Yeow [more...]
Speed Skating Daily: Team Pursuit Final
Team Germany crosses the line despite a fall on the last straight… These olympics continue to surprise and inspire. Most unusual of the aftermath of the preliminaries [more...]
Speed Skating Daily: Team Pursuit Preliminaries
The Canadian women's team on their way to a world record The ladies’ 5000m was without incident nor any significant surprises (which itself is a bit of a surprise [more...]
Speed Skating Daily: Ladies’ 5000m
Elma and Martina have a cuddle after their 5k at a world cup last season Just when I thought this Olympics couldn’t get more unpredictable, the men’s 10,000m [more...]
Speed Skating Daily: Men’s 10,000m
Bob de Jong The ladies’ 1500m result was, characteristically for the games, a surprise. Inspired by countryman Mark Tuitert’s spectacular win in the 1500m, Ireen [more...]
Speed Skating Daily: Ladies’ 1500m
Despite appearences, this is Kristina Groves just after she WON the 1500m at the Calgary World Cup I’m beginning to think that I may be better off simply putting the [more...]
Speed Skating Daily: Men’s 1500m
Chad Hedrick in the final lap of his 1500m in Calgary Canada finally brought home the gold with Christine Nesbitt’s gutsy win the 1000m. The slow ice causing problems [more...]
Speed Skating Daily: Womens’ 1000m
Nesbitt leads Slow ice conditions meant that many of the skaters in the men’s 1000m “popped” before the finish, and were unable to skate strongly all the [more...]
Speed Skating Daily: Men’s 1000m
One word: Shani The (South) Koreans seem bent on messing up my predictions. Lee Sang Hwa skated brilliantly to hold off a second-race charge from Jenny Wolf who asserted her [more...]
Speed Skating Daily: Ladies’ 500m
Jenny Wolf vs Beixing Wang A suspenseful running of the men’s 500m concluded yesterday with 21st-birthday-boy Mo Tae Bum being the only person to go under 35 seconds on [more...]
Speed Skating Daily: Men’s 500m
Joji Kato nears the end of the first 100m of his 500m Yesterday’s women’s 3000m was no surprise at all. Sablikova won the Czech Republic’s first gold medal [more...]
Speed Skating Daily: Ladies’ 3000m
Who do you think will win the 3k? I was kinda hoping that I would… There were a few surprises in yesterday’s men’s 5000m. Sven Kramer won in olympic record [more...]