Re: [Skate] Wind blowing in Gangneung

Lars, I think the skaters are indeed better, most of them tuned their season to be in best shape for this event, thus blueprinting next season for the Olympics. 

Who did not do that well this year? 
Canadian ladies in general, except Weideman, Canadian Sprint men, I think they must come down from their holy Calgary mountain much earlier to train at sea level. 
American ladies sprint except for Bergsma, who trains in the Netherlands. the others look at least overweighted and totally out of shape. Train at sea level! 
Korean’s in general..... don’t send away your coach in the season before the olympics, while the skaters were doing good with new talents coming up last year. 
Germany is coming up, but need some time to get there. Except for Claudia of course. She will always be there I think. 
Dutch LD ladies.....I think next season we will only see specialists on the 5 K. 
Dutch sprint ladies...no connection yet to the world top. mainly technical curve issues. 
Norwegians are vulnerable with only a few top skaters, perhaps the games are  too early for them. 
Polish skaters: will be better next year
Russians....depend on the further actions from the ISU
Chinese skaters? No idea what they have been doing this year......
Japan: most dangerous competitor for the games next year. 
New Zealand: medals on TP, MS and 5000K for Peter Michael. 


Met vriendelijke groet, 
Carool van Kesteren

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> 11. feb. 2017 kl. 13.31 skreiv 'Carool van Kesteren' caroolvk-FeDmaE5TyfFmR6Xm/[email protected] [Speed_skating] <[email protected]>:
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> Bryan, the wind force has been measured by specialists and it does not deviate from the wind that you find in Berlin or Thialf or comparable rinks. 

Not convincing because we then have to come up with another explanation for the faster times. The altitude is not higher. The meteorogical air pressure isn’t lower, the air temperature isn’t higher, the skaters aren’t better. Have they put something special in the ice?

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