World Team Championship March 14-15

[Lori]

Mar 14, 2009 8:34:45 GMT -5 evie5 said:

Mar 9, 2009 21:02:44 GMT -5 Lori said:

In each bracket, the top finishing team is advanced to the A Finals and the bottom team is relegated to the B Finals. Then the middle 2 teams compete in a Repechage round with the middle 2 teams in the other bracket.

So, if I understand this correctly, both the men and the women will be skating in the Repechage. The men are in the #2 spot and the women in the #3 spot.

Yes, that's right, Evie, here's how it should play out after Bracket 1:

LADIES:
China - Final A
Italy - Repechage
USA - Repechage
Germany - Final B

MEN:
Korea - Final A
USA - Repechage
Japan - Repechage
Germany - Final B

By my scoring, our guys were actually tied for first place with the Koreans... EDIT: My math was wrong - I missed a 1st place finish by the Koreans. (wishful thinking, maybe...)

[justsayin]

Mar 14, 2009 10:07:13 GMT -5 Lori said:

By my scoring, our guys were actually tied for first place with the Koreans... EDIT: My math was wrong - I missed a 1st place finish by the Koreans. (wishful thinking, maybe...)

Lori, you are a brave soul. I wouldn't even attempt math at 5:30 in the morning

Actually, for the first time I'm impressed with the ISU site. They are updating the "Team Standing" in each bracket immediately after each heat. When I figured that out, I literally put down the pen and paper that I had in bed with me and the computer.

[Lori]

Bracket #2 is complete, so here's the lineup so far:

LADIES
Final A:
China
Korea
1st Place team in Repechage
2nd Place team in Repechage

Final B:
Germany
Japan
3rd Place team in Repechage
4th Place team in Repechage

Repechage:
USA
Italy
Canada
Netherlands


MEN:
Final A:
Korea
China
1st Place team in Repechage
2nd Place team in Repechage

Final B:
Germany
Netherlands
3rd Place team in Repechage
4th Place team in Repechage

Repechage:
USA
Japan
Canada
Italy

[dove]

here from the great white north we were able to watch the live video stream....with a pulsing techno music sound provided by a radio Veronica dj

saw Jordon Malone's mom Peggy and Travis Jayner's brother Alex in the stands.............maybe we'll get some pics and commentary

[susie]

Justsayin, thanks so much for your report, especially for checking out the foreign TV streams. I had a very tough week at work, and chose to sleep in this morning.

Dove, are you getting your stream from NBC/Universal?

Any opinions on what happened to Apolo in the 1000m?

[dove]

Hi susie,

my feed is from the KNSB (dutch speedskating) site:

www.knsb.nl/live-2009/wk/shorttrack/content/livevideo/index.asp

how i saw the race: in the 1000 Apolo was 2nd, was passed by 3 and 4 and then didn't have time or space to move up as the guys in front accelerated to the finish.

[stfan]

Good morning everybody. Thank you all for the updates. I hope next week will be better for you Susie. I'm a little worried for Apolo after last week's performance. I wonder what's going on. I'll be cheering hard for Team USA this weekend.

[ApoloGold269]

Hey just wondering is this another event to watch the flashing numbers at sportresult.com or is there a live feed somewhere?

[sk8on]

Mar 14, 2009 13:21:46 GMT -5 ApoloGold269 said:

Hey just wondering is this another event to watch the flashing numbers at sportresult.com or is there a live feed somewhere?

I am watching flashing ISU numbers. The event site has a live video feed, but access to the U.S (and Japan) is restricted.

This is the link to the event site:

www.knsb.nl/live-2009/wk/shorttrack/content/home/en/

(there is a "live video" tab on the top of the page)

A few pics from this morning...

[number1fan]

Bracket #2 - Ladies - 1000 M
Heat 1
1 2 SHIN Sae-Bom KOR 1:33.181
2 1 MALTAIS Valerie CAN 1:33.309
3 3 VAN DOORN Annita NED 1:33.417
4 4 OZAWA Mika JPN 1:33.503

Heat 2
1 3 KIM Min-Jung KOR 1:34.463
2 2 GREGG Jessica CAN 1:34.903
3 1 SAKAI Yui JPN 1:35.876
4 4 MAU ASAM Liesbeth NED 1:35.966

Heat 3
1 4 YANG Shin-Young KOR 1:35.176
2 3 MALTAIS Anne CAN 1:35.406
3 1 TER MORS Jorien NED 1:52.288
DQ 2 SAKURAI Biba JPN DQ

Heat 4
1 4 ROBERGE Kalyna CAN 1:33.246
2 1 JUNG Ba-Ra KOR 1:33.480
3 3 ITO Ayuko JPN 1:33.772
4 2 VAN KERKHOF Sanne NED 1:34.383


Bracket #2 - Mens - 1000 M
Heat 1
1 2 HAN Jialiang CHN
2 1 KERSTHOLT Niels NED
3 3 NOVER Gianluigi ITA
DQ 4 HAMELIN Charles CAN DQ

Heat 2
1 2 KNEGT Sjinkie NED 1:29.430
2 3 LIU Xianwei CHN 1:29.484
3 4 RINALDI Claudio ITA 1:29.890
DQ 1 JEAN Olivier CAN DQ

Heat 3
1 2 TREMBLAY Francois-Louis CAN 1:32.467
2 1 CONFORTOLA Yuri ITA 1:33.371
3 4 SONG Weilong CHN 1:45.339
DQ 3 BREEUWSMA Daan NED DQ

Heat 4
1 1 SUI Bao Ku CHN 1:30.374
2 3 MONETTE Marc-Andre CAN 1:30.462
3 2 RODIGARI Nicola ITA 1:30.552
4 4 KOEK Rudy NED 1:31.199


Bracket #2 - Ladies - 500 M
Heat 1
1 3 GREGG Jessica CAN 45.142
2 1 VAN DOORN Annita NED 45.203
3 4 JUNG Ba-Ra KOR 45.322
4 2 SAKAI Yui JPN 45.476

Heat 2
1 4 ROBERGE Kalyna CAN 45.401
2 1 KIM Min-Jung KOR 45.487
3 2 MAU ASAM Liesbeth NED 46.103
4 3 SADAKANE Hiroko JPN 46.896

Heat 3
1 2 YANG Shin-Young KOR 45.778
2 1 HEWITT Jessica CAN 45.879
3 3 VOS Maaike NED 45.973
4 4 SAKURAI Biba JPN 46.285

Heat 4
1 3 SHIN Sae-Bom KOR 45.453
2 1 ITO Ayuko JPN 45.803
3 4 TER MORS Jorien NED 45.947
4 2 MALTAIS Anne CAN 1:03.354


Bracket #2 - Mens - 500 M
Heat 1
1 4 TREMBLAY Francois-Louis CAN 42.356
2 1 SUI Bao Ku CHN 42.741
3 3 BREEUWSMA Daan NED 42.843
4 2 SERRA Roberto ITA 43.126

Heat 2
1 2 HAN Jialiang CHN 43.342
2 3 CONFORTOLA Yuri ITA 43.547
3 4 VAN DER WART Freek NED 56.694
DQ 1 HAMELIN Francois CAN DQ

Heat 3
1 2 JEAN Olivier CAN 42.496
2 3 SONG Weilong CHN 42.556
3 4 RINALDI Claudio ITA 42.892
4 1 KERSTHOLT Niels NED 42.978

Heat 4
1 3 HAMELIN Charles CAN 42.324
2 2 KNEGT Sjinkie NED 43.232
3 1 RODIGARI Nicola ITA 43.369
4 4 YANG Jin CHN 1:01.572


Bracket #2 - Ladies - 3000 M
Heat 1
1 1 JUNG Ba-Ra KOR 5:29.562
2 5 YANG Shin-Young KOR 5:29.601
3 7 VAN DOORN Annita NED 5:29.670
4 4 HEWITT Jessica CAN 5:29.952
5 6 OZAWA Mika JPN 5:29.961
6 8 MALTAIS Valerie CAN 5:34.433
7 2 SADAKANE Hiroko JPN 6:00.284
8 3 TER MORS Jorien NED 6:14.196


Bracket #2 - Mens - 3000 M
Heat 1
1 1 SUI Bao Ku CHN 5:09.149
2 6 JEAN Olivier CAN 5:10.350
3 8 RODIGARI Nicola ITA 5:10.352
4 5 LIU Xianwei CHN 5:10.838
5 4 CONFORTOLA Yuri ITA 5:10.840
6 3 KERSTHOLT Niels NED 5:21.474
7 2 HAMELIN Francois CAN 5:22.136
8 7 KNEGT Sjinkie NED 5:27.508


Bracket #2 - Ladies - 3000 M Relay
Heat 1
1 2 KOREA KOR 4:17.743
JUNG Ba-Ra
KIM Min-Jung
SHIN Sae-Bom
YANG Shin-Young

2 4 CANADA CAN 4:19.721
GREGG Jessica
HEWITT Jessica
MALTAIS Anne
ROBERGE Kalyna

3 3 JAPAN JPN 4:20.875
ITO Ayuko
SADAKANE Hiroko
SAKAI Yui
SAKURAI Biba

4 1 NETHERLANDS NED 4:20.893
VOS Maaike
MAU ASAM Liesbeth
VAN DOORN Annita
VAN KERKHOF Sanne


Bracket #2 - Mens - 5000 M Relay
Heat 1
1 2 CANADA CAN 7:13.930
HAMELIN Charles
JEAN Olivier
MONETTE Marc-Andre
TREMBLAY Francois-Louis

2 4 CHINA CHN 7:14.894
HAN Jialiang
LIU Xianwei
SONG Weilong
SUI Bao Ku

3 3 ITALY ITA 7:15.175
CONFORTOLA Yuri
RINALDI Claudio
RODIGARI Nicola
SERRA Roberto

4 1 NETHERLANDS NED 7:32.536
KERSTHOLT Niels
KNEGT Sjinkie
BREEUWSMA Daan
KOEK Rudy

[number1fan]

REPECHAGE - LADIES - 1000M

Heat 1
1 4 REUTTER Katherine USA 1:34.657
2 3 FONTANA Arianna ITA 1:34.722
3 2 VAN DOORN Annita NED 1:34.861
4 1 MALTAIS Valerie CAN 1:34.893

Heat 2
1 2 ROBERGE Kalyna CAN 1:33.420
2 1 DERRICK Kimberly USA 1:33.424
3 3 MAU ASAM Liesbeth NED 1:33.759
4 4 PERETTI Lucia ITA 1:34.892

Heat 3
1 2 GEHRING Lana USA 1:35.324
2 4 VOS Maaike NED 1:35.447
3 1 ZINI Katia ITA 1:35.543
4 3 HEWITT Jessica CAN 2:13.115

Heat 4
1 4 GREGG Jessica CAN 1:35.201
2 2 MAFFEI Cecilia ITA 1:36.039
3 1 TER MORS Jorien NED 2:30.635
DQ 3 SMITH Jessica USA DQ


REPECHAGE - MENS - 1000M
Heat 1
1 2 HAMELIN Francois CAN 1:28.550
2 1 CONFORTOLA Yuri ITA 1:28.728
3 4 MALONE Jordan USA 1:28.961 ?
4 3 KAKUBARI Fumihiko JPN 1:29.635

Heat 2
1 3 HAMELIN Charles CAN 1:27.494
2 4 TAKAMIDO Yuzo JPN 1:27.570
3 1 JAYNER Travis USA 1:27.678 ?
4 2 RODIGARI Nicola ITA 1:27.786

Heat 3
1 4 TREMBLAY Francois-Louis CAN 1:28.763
2 2 OHNO Apolo Anton USA 1:28.951
3 1 SAKASH*TA Satoshi JPN 1:29.505
4 3 RINALDI Claudio ITA 1:29.782

Heat 4
1 3 CELSKI J.R. USA 1:27.348
2 1 JEAN Olivier CAN 1:27.652
3 2 FUJIMOTO Takahiro JPN 1:27.850
4 4 NOVER Gianluigi ITA 1:30.555

please don't tell me only the top 2 from each heat advances

[evie5]

Mar 14, 2009 14:14:44 GMT -5 number1fan said:

please don't tell me only the top 2 from each heat advances

It is my understanding that these heats determine the points for each country. Thus, the better that our team does, the more points that are scored. Then, the top two teams will go to the A finals and the bottom two teams will go to the B finals.

(Someone correct me if I am wrong.)

[number1fan]

REPECHAGE - LADIES - 500M

Heat 1
1 3 VALCEPINA Martina ITA 45.972
2 1 VAN DOORN Annita NED 45.977
3 4 DUDEK Alyson USA 46.052 ?
4 2 MALTAIS Valerie CAN 46.145

Heat 2
1 3 ROBERGE Kalyna CAN 44.975
2 1 DERRICK Kimberly USA 45.382
3 2 MAU ASAM Liesbeth NED 45.573
4 4 ZINI Katia ITA 45.624

Heat 3
1 2 REUTTER Katherine USA 45.069
2 1 FONTANA Arianna ITA 45.076
3 4 GREGG Jessica CAN 45.109
4 3 VOS Maaike NED 46.417

Heat 4
1 3 SMITH Jessica USA 45.585
2 1 MALTAIS Anne CAN 45.873
3 2 MAFFEI Cecilia ITA 45.894
4 4 VAN KERKHOF Sanne NED 45.971


REPECHAGE - MENS - 500M
Heat 1
1 3 TREMBLAY Francois-Louis CAN 41.903
2 2 OHNO Apolo Anton USA 41.987
3 1 CONFORTOLA Yuri ITA 42.064
4 4 SAKURAI Yuma JPN 43.520

Heat 2
1 1 SAKASH*TA Satoshi JPN 42.781
2 2 RODIGARI Nicola ITA 42.820
3 3 MALONE Jordan USA 42.946 ?
4 4 HAMELIN Francois CAN 53.494

Heat 3
1 2 FUJIMOTO Takahiro JPN 42.975
2 1 JEAN Olivier CAN 43.044
3 4 JAYNER Travis USA 43.323 ?
4 3 SERRA Roberto ITA 44.101

Heat 4
1 2 HAMELIN Charles CAN 41.629
2 1 CELSKI J.R. USA 41.687
3 4 RINALDI Claudio ITA 43.505
4 3 TAKAMIDO Yuzo JPN 43.782

[number1fan]

thanks evie!

[Lori]

Right again, Evie! The higher we finish in each race, the more points are accumulated for the team - the top 2 teams in total points in the Repechage Round go to the A Final tomorrow - the bottom teams to the B Final.

We're currently in the lead with 28 points, and it looks like Katherine just got us 5 more points in that 3000M! ;D