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Post by aaosmts19 on Nov 5, 2009 17:21:20 GMT -5
Tony said, in his tweet and FB, that kwak slipped 2 different times coming out of corners, so that cost him.
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Post by bubblebuttsbabe on Nov 5, 2009 17:38:36 GMT -5
Men - 500M - Pre-Preliminaries - ResultsHeat 1 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 2 SIMON Jeff USA 43.011 Q 
2 1 LEE Seung-Jae KOR 43.140 Q
3 4 KULESZA Dariusz POL 43.935 q4 3 DARAZS Peter HUN 50.392 Heat 2 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 OHNO Apolo Anton USA 42.756 Q
2 2 KOZULIN Evgeny RUS 42.810 Q
3 3 PANDOV Kiril BUL 43.388 q4 4 BLACKBURN Mackenzie TPE 43.777 Heat 3 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 HAMELIN Charles CAN 42.285 Q 
2 3 PANDOV Assen BUL 43.172 Q
3 2 HERRMANN Paul GER 43.651 q4 4 KOSHELENKO Oleksiy UKR 43.937 Heat 4 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 CHO Simon USA 42.581 Q
2 2 GYSEL Pieter BEL 42.683 Q
3 3 CONFORTOLA Yuri ITA 42.811 q4 4 SKJELLERUP Blake NZL 44.021 Heat 5 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 2 FUJIMOTO Takahiro JPN 43.069 Q
2 1 LIANG Wenhao CHN 43.211 Q
3 3 MASSON Jeremy FRA 43.869 q4 4 VIGAS Milos SVK 44.291 Heat 6 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 4 JEAN Olivier CAN 42.718 Q
2 2 KNOCH Viktor HUN 42.834 Q
3 1 ELEY Jon GBR 42.881 q4 3 BEKZHANOV Aidar KAZ 43.210 Heat 7 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 TREMBLAY Francois-Louis CAN 42.318 Q
2 2 TERAO Satoru JPN 42.974 Q
3 3 VAN DER WART Freek NED 43.098 q4 4 ANTANENKA Aliaksandr BLR 45.922 Heat 8 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 RODIGARI Nicola ITA 43.419 Q
2 2 GALAMBOS Gabor HUN 43.483 Q
3 4 JACKSON Mark NZL 44.144 q4 3 YAKUSHKOU Siarhei BLR 44.964 Heat 9 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 SUNG Si-Bak KOR 42.967 Q
2 2 KERSTHOLT Niels NED 43.542 Q
3 3 SEIFERT Robert GER 43.859 q4 4 GUTENOV Ievgen UKR 44.111 Heat 10 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 KONOPKO Bartosz POL 43.148 Q
2 2 KNEGT Sjinkie NED 43.290 Q
3 4 SULTANGALIYEV Artur KAZ 43.622 q4 3 VOJTECH Loudin CZE 43.995 Heat 11 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 HAN Jialiang CHN 42.475 Q
2 2 STANLEY Paul GBR 42.686 Q
3 3 PRANKEVITCH Sergei RUS 42.869 q4 4 POLTAVETS Dmytro UKR 45.581 Heat 12 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 SERRA Roberto ITA 43.393 Q
2 2 LEPAPE Sebastien FRA 43.997 Q3 3 SAULITIS Jekabs LAT 45.015 4 4 SUCHY Ondrej CZE 45.236 Heat 13 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 SAKAS-H-I-TA Satoshi JPN 43.428 Q
2 2 HEUNG Tyson GER 43.487 Q
3 3 PULEC Andre AUT 44.133 q4 4 YORDANOV Asen BUL 45.218 Heat 14 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 WANG Hong Yang CHN 43.242 Q
2 2 ELISTRATOV Semion RUS 43.440 Q
3 3 FILIPOWICZ Adam POL 43.815 q4 4 BRANKOVIC Edin BIH 46.412 Heat 15 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 2 FAUCONNET Thibaut FRA 42.955 Q
2 1 SILOVS Haralds LAT 43.129 Q
3 3 WORTH Paul GBR 43.466 q4 4 BYKANOV Vladislav ISR 45.184
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Post by bubblebuttsbabe on Nov 5, 2009 17:42:40 GMT -5
Tony said, in his tweet and FB, that kwak slipped 2 different times coming out of corners, so that cost him. Um, yeah. I guess I should have re-read what I wrote. I read Tony's tweets, so I knew that. But what I wrote made it sound like I didn't. I think my mind thinks other people can read it and know exactly what I was thinking when I wrote that. Oops. Sorry, 19. ;] Btw, aren't you in Montreal?! |
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Post by bubblebuttsbabe on Nov 5, 2009 17:46:39 GMT -5
Source: www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/sports/2009/11/136_54903.html11-04-2009 19:51 Short Track Olympic Qualification BeginsBy Kang Seung-woo Staff Reporter Olympic berths will be on the line in the next two weeks as the South Korean short track team travels to North America for two World Cup events. The third World Cup event of the season begins Thursday in Montreal while the fourth and final competition will take place a week later in Marquette, Mich. The third and the fourth legs of the four-series competition are qualifiers for the Vancouver Winter Olympics, which kick off on Feb. 12, next year. Short Track speed skating has four events in both the men's and women's divisions ― 500-, 1,000- and 1,500-meter individual races, and the 3,000 relay (women) and 5,000 relay (men). Each country can have a maximum of three skaters in each of the individual events. One skater can compete in as many as two races in addition to the relay. The results from both competitions will be combined and the top 32 skaters in the 1000 and 500 meters, the top 36 in the 1,500 meters and the top eight relay teams will qualify. The results will establish a quota for each nation, so as long as Korea has at least three top-32 finishers in the 500 meters, they can send any three skaters they choose. The East Asian nation has been a dominant force in the sport, gathering 17 gold medals at the Olympic Games since 1992, when the short track became an official event. "People think that it is easy for South Korean short trackers to earn Olympic berths, and that can be a little bit burdensome,'' men's team coach Kim Ki-hoon said Saturday before leaving for Montreal."But our players have come through a competitive tryout to get here, so they will stand a good chance of qualifying for the Olympics." The South Koreans have proven that they are still heavyweights through the first two contests, which were held in Beijing and Seoul, claiming 10 of the 16 gold medals, five from each competition. However, Lee Ho-suk, a triple gold medalist at the 2009 World Championships in Vienna, Austria, in March, will not be available in these tournaments due to injury.
The 23-year-old, who won gold medals in the men's 1,000 and 1,500 meters, and the 5,000 relay in Seoul in September, hurt his ankle during practice last month and is now in rehabilitation at the Korea National Training Center in Taeneung, east of Seoul.The coaching staff replaced him with Lee Seung-jae, who finished sixth in the national team tryout, to allow Lee Ho-suk to rest and prevent further injury before he's ready to return. On the women's side, the squad has struggled to find a skater who can fill in for injured Jin Sun-yoo, a triple gold medalist at the Turin Winter Olympics in 2006, but it is still expected to have several skaters qualify for the Olympics. Despite wrapping up the first World Cup competition without a singles title, they got back on track as Cho Ha-ri and Lee Eun-byul were victorious in the 1,000 and 1,500 meters, respectively, on home soil in the second event. Meanwhile, the long track speed skating team will also compete in the first World Cup competition of the season, in Berlin, Friday. Unlike short track, combined results from five events will decide Olympic qualification. Lee Kyu-hyuk and Lee Kang-seok on the men's side, and Lee Sang-hwa on the women's are expected to earn tickets to Vancouver, where 12 gold medals will be awarded. - - - - - I think this will help some of you understand the oly qualifying better. ;]
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Post by aaosmts19 on Nov 5, 2009 17:49:50 GMT -5
Tony said, in his tweet and FB, that kwak slipped 2 different times coming out of corners, so that cost him. Um, yeah. I guess I should have re-read what I wrote. I read Tony's tweets, so I knew that. But what I wrote made it sound like I didn't. I think my mind thinks other people can read it and know exactly what I was thinking when I wrote that. Oops. Sorry, 19. ;] Btw, aren't you in Montreal?! Headed up tomorrow morning with WAGS...waiting for her to call me from the airport as we speak...she landed in boston about 20 mins ago. I know what you mean about the mind...i have a whole committee in mine, and no one ever listens to me! |
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Post by bubblebuttsbabe on Nov 5, 2009 18:00:46 GMT -5
Um, yeah. I guess I should have re-read what I wrote. I read Tony's tweets, so I knew that. But what I wrote made it sound like I didn't. I think my mind thinks other people can read it and know exactly what I was thinking when I wrote that. Oops. Sorry, 19. ;] Btw, aren't you in Montreal?! Headed up tomorrow morning with WAGS...waiting for her to call me from the airport as we speak...she landed in boston about 20 mins ago. I know what you mean about the mind...i have a whole committee in mine, and no one ever listens to me! LOL. How exciting! Say to hi to everyone for me! :] |
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Post by dopeyrn on Nov 5, 2009 18:28:06 GMT -5
Assuming Malone does not have an ACL tear, just a strain. How is it possible for him and JR to qualify for the Olympics?
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Post by bubblebuttsbabe on Nov 5, 2009 18:46:07 GMT -5
Assuming Malone does not have an ACL tear, just a strain. How is it possible for him and JR to qualify for the Olympics? What basically will happen is after both WC's, points will be added together and a top 32 (500 and 1000) and 36 (1500) will be ranked. Based on those rankings, slots will be allotted. Let's say, as an example, Korea has three male skaters in the top 32 and 36 for all three distances - they will be given three Olympic spots for the men (the most that is allowed). Now let's say, we (Team USA) do the same...we would be given three spots as well. With those three spots...Jordan and JR would be skating in the Olys because of their distance qualification at the Oly Trials (2nd in 500, 3rd in 1000, and 3 in 1500 for Jordan; 2nd in 1500 for JR). |
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Post by dopeyrn on Nov 5, 2009 19:06:36 GMT -5
Thanks BBB...you always have the answers!  |
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Post by bubblebuttsbabe on Nov 5, 2009 19:12:40 GMT -5
Thanks BBB...you always have the answers! hahaha. sometimes. ;] but that article above made it sound as if the 500 has the most importance in terms of slot allotment. i don't remember reading anything about that in any of the rules, so i'm unsure about that. however, i was looking over our results from the last two wc's and like Lori said earlier, we would have done the job. three spots would have been ours (at least from what i see on the men's side). i think the women's 500 was shaky though (just from a first glance). seems so this time around too. :/ |
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Post by bubblebuttsbabe on Nov 5, 2009 19:18:02 GMT -5
Women - 500M - Preliminaries - ResultsHeat 1 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 LEE Eun-Byul KOR 45.242 Q
2 2 ST-GELAIS Marianne CAN 45.372 Q
3 3 ITO Ayuko JPN 45.501 q4 4 GEHRING Lana USA 46.071  Heat 2 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 LIU Qiuhong CHN 44.298 Q
2 2 WANG Xinyue HKG 44.988 Q3 3 DARAZS Rozsa HUN 46.347 4 4 WHELBOURNE Alex GBR 46.352 Heat 3 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 2 KLEIN Aika GER 45.839 Q
2 1 CHO Ha-Ri KOR 45.895 Q
3 3 POTEMKINA Valeriya RUS 45.923 q4 4 WINDISCH Veronika AUT 46.181 Heat 4 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 GREGG Jessica CAN 45.496 Q
2 2 MALISZEWSKA Patrycja POL 45.918 Q3 4 VALCEPINA Martina ITA 45.992 4 3 HEIDUM Bernadett HUN 1:13.115 Heat 5 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 4 VAN DOORN Annita NED 45.416 Q
2 1 GEORGIEVA-NIKOLOVA Marina BUL 45.528 Q
3 2 CHRISTIE Elise GBR 45.861 q4 3 SAKAI Yui JPN 45.887 Heat 6 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 ZHAO Nannan CHN 44.562 Q
2 3 RUDOLPH Susanne GER 45.494 Q
3 2 RADANOVA Evgenia BUL 45.599 q  4 4 EZZI Ranya SWE 47.943 Heat 7 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 LINDSAY Sarah GBR 45.639 Q
2 4 HUSZAR Erika HUN 45.741 Q3 3 NOVOTNA Katerina CZE 46.109 4 2 KRIEVANE Evita LAT 47.042 Heat 8 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 PARK Seung-Hi KOR 45.162 Q
2 3 BORODULINA Tatiana AUS 45.737 Q3 4 VOS Maaike NED 46.218 4 2 BOUVIER Stephanie FRA 46.933 Heat 9 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 WANG Meng CHN 44.778 Q
2 2 MAU ASAM Liesbeth NED 45.147 Q3 3 VIVIANI Elena ITA 46.110 4 4 STEPANOVA Liya RUS 47.289 Heat 10 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 ROBERGE Kalyna CAN 45.337 Q
2 2 FONTANA Arianna ITA 45.435 Q
3 3 PIERRON Veronique FRA 45.495 q4 4 BELLA Aida POL 46.698 Heat 11 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 REUTTER Katherine USA 44.991 Q
2 2 SAKURAI Biba JPN 45.311 Q
3 3 BELOVA Ekaterina RUS 45.615 q4 4 WALTER Bianca GER 46.211 - - - - - - oooo, bad starting position for lana. :/ looks like kat is the lone ranger. :]
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Post by bubblebuttsbabe on Nov 5, 2009 19:38:57 GMT -5
Men - 500M - Preliminaries - ResultsHeat 1 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 JEAN Olivier CAN 42.726 Q
2 2 KNEGT Sjinkie NED 42.832 Q3 3 ELISTRATOV Semion RUS 43.030 q4 4 MASSON Jeremy FRA 43.852 Heat 2 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 CONFORTOLA Yuri ITA 42.881 Q
2 3 KONOPKO Bartosz POL 43.000 Q3 2 VAN DER WART Freek NED 43.047 q4 4 SAKAcrapA Satoshi JPN 43.122 Heat 3 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 SUNG Si-Bak KOR 43.039 Q
2 3 HEUNG Tyson GER 43.557 Q3 4 KULESZA Dariusz POL 45.320 ADVDQ 2 GALAMBOS Gabor HUN DQ Heat 4 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 HAMELIN Charles CAN 42.351 Q
2 3 LIANG Wenhao CHN 42.748 Q3 2 PANDOV Assen BUL 43.000 q4 4 JACKSON Mark NZL 43.325 Heat 5 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 3 WANG Hong Yang CHN 43.213 Q
2 1 CHO Simon USA 43.447 Q 3 2 KNOCH Viktor HUN 43.836 4 4 SEIFERT Robert GER 57.200 Heat 6 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 TREMBLAY Francois-Louis CAN 42.197 Q
2 2 STANLEY Paul GBR 42.719 Q3 3 TERAO Satoru JPN 42.734 q4 4 PANDOV Kiril BUL 44.103 Heat 7 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 2 SIMON Jeff USA 42.941 Q
2 1 ELEY Jon GBR 43.351 Q3 3 RODIGARI Nicola ITA 43.417 4 4 HERRMANN Paul GER 43.545 Heat 8 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 2 FUJIMOTO Takahiro JPN 43.079 Q
2 3 SERRA Roberto ITA 43.117 Q3 1 PRANKEVITCH Sergei RUS 43.191 q4 4 WORTH Paul GBR 43.356 Heat 9 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 OHNO Apolo Anton USA 42.835 Q
2 2 KOZULIN Evgeny RUS 43.285 Q3 3 KERSTHOLT Niels NED 43.408 q4 4 FILIPOWICZ Adam POL 43.752 Heat 10 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 GYSEL Pieter BEL 43.293 Q
2 2 FAUCONNET Thibaut FRA 43.332 Q3 3 SILOVS Haralds LAT 43.422 4 4 SULTANGALIYEV Artur KAZ 43.657 Heat 11 [Splits] Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual. 1 1 HAN Jialiang CHN 43.010 Q
2 2 LEE Seung-Jae KOR 43.284 Q3 3 LEPAPE Sebastien FRA 43.443 4 4 PULEC Andre AUT 43.849 - - - - - - last race of the day!! :] .....and they're done.
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Post by bubblebuttsbabe on Nov 5, 2009 20:13:30 GMT -5
Start of the media roundup... ;] - - - - - -  Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press Canadian coaches helping short track teams abroadThe Canadian Press By Jennifer Ditchburn, The Canadian Press Posted Thursday, November 5, 2009 6:30 PM ET MONTREAL - Some of the foreign teams competing at this week's short-track speedskating World Cup are wielding a secret weapon that they're hoping will bring home medals at the Vancouver Games: Canadian coaching staff. Sprinkled along the boards at the Maurice Richard Arena on Thursday were a number of well-known Canadian faces in the sport. Four-time Olympic medallist Eric Bedard calls Dresden, Germany home now, as he works with a relatively green team of speedskaters. He watches as one of his young athletes in a navy blue bodysuit runs around the hallways of the arena in a pre-race warmup. Their best hope in Vancouver is to get to the finals in a relay race, but he's looking at the long-term growth of the German national team. Bedard says Canadians are attractive to European teams because they bring a different, less stringent ethic to training than Asian coaches, but are nonetheless well-skilled and focused. "This is a tradition in Quebec and Canada. We're into short-track, into a lot of winter sports, we have a long tradition of sports,'' said Bedard. "In short-track we were there for the first World championship.'' John Monroe had a stint coaching in Canada, and now smiles as Dutch star Sjinkie Knegt glides easily to a qualifying win in the 500 metres. He is the is national coach for the Netherlands skating team, and is working to put in place the infrastructure for skating in the country that will build on talent from the earliest ages - like the culture around hockey in Canada. The Netherlands has been off the radar for years in the sport, and he wants to change that. Coaching at that high a level is a dream, Monroe says., "One of the reasons I felt like I had a better opportunity coaching in other places such as the U.S. and overseas, was simply that within the Canadian system there are so many good coaches it's hard to get your foot in the door.'' The American team, which has rapidly become one of the greatest threats on the ice, has two former Canadian Olympians on staff: Guy Thibault and Laurent Daigneault. Thibault, who is the high performance director for the U.S. national team, is credited with attracting athletes to the team. Multiple medallist Apolo Ohno, who announced he was retiring in 2006, came back to the team when Thibault joined up. Slowly, Thibault put in place some of the strategies he had employed with 11 of 12 speedskaters on Canada's 2006 Olympic Team. When he arrived, he said the team did not have nutritionist, a recovery room, a weight-training specialist or whirlpools at their Salt Lake City facility to rest athletes' aching muscles. Now, that's all in place.Thibault said the American team and the Canadian team will be competing head-to-head for medals. Like his other Canadian cohorts working abroad, the allure of improving a team's fortunes is high. "It was more gratifying to build up a new system,'' said Thibault.The World Cup competition will help determine which athletes compete in Vancouver this February. The results from this week's races will be combined with those from next week's World Cup in Marquette, Michigan. - - - - - - Um, I don't remember a formal announcement about Apolo, but oo-kay. |
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Post by bubblebuttsbabe on Nov 5, 2009 20:16:49 GMT -5
Source: www.ctvolympics.ca/short-track-skating/news/newsid=19033.html Miss Vicent :] Paul Chiasson/File/The Canadian Press Two Canadian short-trackers fail to advanceThe Canadian Press By Jennifer Ditchburn, The Canadian Press Posted Thursday, November 5, 2009 7:02 PM ET MONTREAL - Canadian short-track speedskaters hoping to secure as many Olympic berths as possible through the World Cup faced a couple of early disappointments Thursday. Skaters Guillaume Bastille and Tania Vincent both failed to advance past the quarter-finals in 1,500 metre races.Fellow skaters Charles Hamelin and Olivier Jean for the men, and Kalyna Roberge and Valerie Maltais for the women, will go on to skate in the semi-finals on Sunday at the Maurice Richard Arena. The meet will determine how many skaters each country can send to the Olympics. Canada automatically gets one spot per distance, and a team in the 3,000 and 5,000 relays, but will be aiming to have the maximum three men and three women in the 500, 1,000 and 1,500 events.
The rankings from the end of this week will be combined with the results from another meet in Marquette, Mich., next weekend. Skaters in the top 32 spots in each distance will go on to Vancouver, the top 36 spots for the 1,500 metres.
The countries to watch for are Korea, China and the United States, with powerful skaters that the Canadian team are scrutinizing carefully in Montreal. The World Cup this week is a chance to gather intelligence about your rivals before the big show in February in Vancouver.Some of the top male competitors include Korea's Lee Ho-Suk and J.R. Celski on the American side. Celski is not at the meet this week because of a significant leg injury that he is still recuperating from. He told reporters this week he intends to be on the ice in Vancouver. On the women's side, two-year world champion Wang Meng is the one to beat. Canada's men's Olympic squad also features Hamelin's brother Francois, Francois-Louis Tremblay of Alma, Que., and Guillaume Bastille of Riviere-du-Loup, Que. The women's team includes Jessica Gregg of Edmonton and Marianne St-Gelais of Roberval, Que.
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Post by bubblebuttsbabe on Nov 5, 2009 20:18:41 GMT -5
I'd say this is VERY good news...
Jordan just posted on his FB: "SOMEBODY just got cleared to put skates on after his fourth day of rehab!!! Long way to go... but thats a start"
CONGRATS JORDAN! :]
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