World Cup #1 - Sept. 17-20, 2009 - Beijing, China

[bubblebuttsbabe]

Sept 17, 2009 3:45:47 GMT -5 Lori said:

I'm here, MM, #1 and BBB, but fighting a bad cold - a 'souvenir' from MQT. It was 'going around' - I'm trying to avoid hitting the NyQuil, but it may be inevitable...

Feel better soon, Lori!! :]

[bubblebuttsbabe]

Female - 500m - Heats

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 2 ZHAO Nannan CHN 44.392 Q
2 1 ROBERGE Kalyna CAN 45.844 Q
3 4 KESZLER Andrea HUN 1:07.842
DQ 3 JEON Da-Hye KOR DQ

Heat 2 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 GREGG Jessica CAN 44.516 Q
2 2 PIERRON Veronique FRA 44.798 Q
3 3 SAKAI Yui JPN 45.025 q
4 4 GEHRING Lana USA 45.158

Heat 3 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 ST-GELAIS Marianne CAN 45.059 Q
2 2 DUDEK Alyson USA 45.113 Q
3 4 VAN DOORN Annita NED 45.176
4 3 HEIDUM Bernadett HUN 45.477

Heat 4 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 FONTANA Arianna ITA 44.821 Q
2 3 BORODULINA Tatiana AUS 44.898 Q
3 4 SIMONOVA Inna KAZ 47.195
4 2 ITO Ayuko JPN 1:10.093

Heat 5 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 2 NOVOTNA Katerina CZE 45.509 Q
2 3 HUSZAR Erika HUN 45.591 Q
3 1 WANG Xinyue HKG 52.089
4 4 BELOVA Ekaterina RUS 1:08.046

Heat 6 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 WANG Meng CHN 43.887 Q
2 2 LEE Eun-Byul KOR 44.831 Q
3 3 RUDOLPH Susanne GER 45.281
4 4 SMITH Jessica USA 1:03.395

Heat 7 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 LIU Qiuhong CHN 44.306 Q
2 2 KIM Min-Jung KOR 44.976 Q
3 3 VALCEPINA Martina ITA 45.163 q
4 4 ANDERSON Alix-Myra AUS 48.335

[bubblebuttsbabe]

Men - 500m - Heats

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 JEAN Olivier CAN 41.551 Q
2 3 LEE Seung-Jae KOR 42.002 Q
3 2 LIANG Wenhao CHN 42.222
4 4 YOSHIZAWA Jumpei JPN 43.661

Heat 2 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 SIMON Jeff USA 41.799 Q
2 3 KWAK Yoon-Gy KOR 42.004 Q
3 4 SERRA Roberto ITA 42.619
4 2 KONOPKO Bartosz POL 43.107

Heat 3 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 TREMBLAY Francois-Louis CAN 41.822 Q
2 2 CHO Simon USA 42.352 Q
3 3 SUI Bao Ku CHN 42.734
4 4 POLTAVETS Dmytro UKR 43.845

Heat 4 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 2 CONFORTOLA Yuri ITA 42.557 Q
2 4 HAN Jialiang CHN 42.899 Q
3 1 STANLEY Paul GBR 42.921
4 3 DE DEYNE Wim BEL 44.342 ;D

Heat 5 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 LOBELLO Anthony USA 42.422 Q
2 4 DARAZS Peter HUN 42.679 Q
3 2 WORTH Paul GBR 42.745
DQ 3 FAUCONNET Thibaut FRA DQ

Heat 6 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 KERSTHOLT Niels NED 43.381
2 4 KULESZA Dariusz POL 44.604
DQ 1 ELEY Jon GBR DQ
DQ 2 KOZULIN Evgeny RUS DQ

Heat 7 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 SUNG Si-Bak KOR 41.957 Q
2 2 SILOVS Haralds LAT 42.044 Q
3 3 HEUNG Tyson GER 42.069
4 4 RODIGARI Nicola ITA 42.393

Heat 8 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 HAMELIN Charles CAN 42.144 Q
2 2 SAKAcrapA Satoshi JPN 42.313 Q
3 3 KNOCH Viktor HUN 42.992
4 4 SEIFERT Robert GER 55.046

[bubblebuttsbabe]

And we're done for Day 1. See you guys later today! :]

[sk8er]

Ohhhh.....thanks so much for the details! Not THAT Seung Jai Lee, of the "Let's trip Jonnathan Guilmette at Worlds" infamy I"m guessing that Jeff Simon will skate his heart out and help our men earn 3 spots at each distance. Go Jeff! Hope Allison's ankle holds up to all this skating, no question about her heart~~

[number1fan]

high 5 bbb...thanks for finishing up!

hey...no repechage and one extra event...what's up with that?
especially when it would've benefited a couple of our girls already.

[aaosmts19]

Sept 17, 2009 10:34:56 GMT -5 number1fan said:

high 5 bbb...thanks for finishing up!

hey...no repechage and one extra event...what's up with that?
especially when it would've benefited a couple of our girls already.

Tony's last tweet, 3 hrs ago:
"Oh man there are no repechages for the World Cups this season. You make it to the next round or you DON'T. The stakes are higher now."

I'm so afraid that there will be stupid skaters out there willing to do ANYTHING to advance. And I'm so afraid that since the US has had their trials already, our team will have bullseyes on their backs from some teams who might just want to wreak havoc.

Hopefully WC1 and 2 will be uneventful for us. Since it is WC3 and 4 that continue to determine our team, I'm wondering if we might see some slower times from our guys and gals in Beijing and Korea. Fine by me, as long as all are safe and healthy!

[sk8er]

Oh it IS that Seung Jai Lee! Boys watch that skate! Tony posted the 2004 Worlds video according BBB on another thread

[number1fan]

a status update from Tony on FB...47 mins ago

World Cup 1 video will be on CCTV-5 at 1:35am PST this Saturday and Sunday Live!
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so our friday and saturday early AM?
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yup.

[number1fan]

Sept 17, 2009 11:26:37 GMT -5 aaosmts19 said:

I'm so afraid that there will be stupid skaters out there willing to do ANYTHING to advance. And I'm so afraid that since the US has had their trials already, our team will have bullseyes on their backs from some teams who might just want to wreak havoc.

you mean the old adage, desperate people do desperate things

let's hope NOT!!!

[epiphaniii]

Thank you for posting the CCTV-5 coverage news, Number1Fan. I just read Tony's Twitter page and was coming to post the links I found for the station. I found two, but don't know if they are what's needed for the WC broadcast. I know Tony will probably post a link, but I'm just excited and trying to prepare early.

If these aren't correct and someone knows the right link, please post.

vod.cctv.com/channel/cctv5

tv.cctv.com/cctv5/

[number1fan]

thanks for those links epiph! ... isn't tony the best?

remember we're a day behind asia

[stfan]

Thank you BBB and Number1 for keeping us updated. Get well soon Lori. So tonight is blinking numbers @ 10:15 pm. Friday and Sat live @ 1:35 am @cctv?

[aaosmts19]

ooo....pity us poor, pathetic eastern timezoners!

[MT]

LMAO, at your smilies, B-Butt. If I didn't have to vacate the comp immediately, I'd feel a dedicatory poem comming along.

P.S. One gets the impression Tremblay has made another conquest of you. Ah, those naughty but yummy Canooks.