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For me the worst is when I'm at the pub quiz on a Wednesday, and it gets to the music round - we need the artist and the year - so a song comes on, and I think "hmmm, sometime in the last 10 years... '96 maybe?" and then I am reminded that "erm... that would be nearly 20 years ago"... oh :(
 
Well I was born in 96 and I'm 18. It's hard to believe for me that 2003 was 11 years ago. People born in 2000 are now adolescents.
 
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Just watched the Dutch go 1-2-3-4 in women's 1500m longtrack. I'm really quite curious how they get so good - or is it that no other country puts the same resources into speedskating? Who knows, but it was really, really dominant and impressive.

Canada won a bronze in men's super G - first in 20 years in any alpine sport.

Slovakia took Russia to a 0-0 shootout. Incredible indeed. Russia won in the shootout but I expect many people are about to be sent to the gulag.
 
LooseCannon said:
Just watched the Dutch go 1-2-3-4 in women's 1500m longtrack. I'm really quite curious how they get so good - or is it that no other country puts the same resources into speedskating? Who knows, but it was really, really dominant and impressive.
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Holland is a skating country.

In the whole world there are 32 400m indoor ice tracks. 17 of these 32 are in the Netherlands. Wherever you are in the Netherlands, we're having a skating track at a max of 60 km distance.

Albertville: Ice track: broken down
Sarajevo: gone after the Olympics
One year after the last Winter Olympics. Vancouver used their Ice arena for other purposes. They said: we already have one in Calgary, let's get rid of this one.

This is illustrative for most if not all countries out there. They simply put more energy and money (and stimulation of talent) in other sports.
 
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Holland is a skating country.....
This is illustrative for most if not all countries out there. They simply put more energy and money (and stimulation of talent) in other sports.
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So essentially nobody is really trying to compete with the Netherlands.
 
This day started well for the Norwegian athletes, with Kjetil Jansrud continuing a good tradition of Super-G winners. However, the ice hockey team were nowhere near their best and lost 1-3 to Austria, meaning they will face Russia in the next round. Had they won, the opponent would have been Slovenia ...

The men's cross country relay team struggled with inferior skis, following the problems the women's team had yesterday. They never got involved in the race for the top spots :( Hats off to Sweden who seem to have gotten all preparations right. @Natalie, @Yax - congratulations!

The curling team have got their act together and won twice today.

Annoying that the biathlon today was cancelled, but it's been rescheduled to the best time possible for me - 07:00 tomorrow morning, meaning I can watch it before I go to work :)
 
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So essentially nobody is really trying to compete with the Netherlands.
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Or in some cases, even putting less effort in it compared with previous years. Poland beat our asses at the 1500 m men. Belgium has one guy who can really be big at the next Olympics.

All this said, I hadn't expected so many victories myself. And there's still more to come....
Also the first ever Dutch short track medal was very special.

Congrats with Canada's victory over Finland. I saw the Finnish equalizer, live.

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I just read and realized that these are most successful Winter Olympics ever, for the Netherlands.

current medal standings:

Country/G/S/B/total
1. Germany 7 3 2 12
2. Netherlands 5 5 7 17
3. Norway 5 3 6 14
4. Switzerland 5 1 1 7
5. Russia 4 7 5 16
6. Canada 4 6 4 14
7. USA 4 4 8 16
8. Poland 4 0 0 4
 
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