2 gold 2silver medals more for Norway

Another gold and bronze medal for the Netherlands at speed skating

fuck yeah, germany leading with 7 gold medals

didnt think i would ever see this happening

of course it wont last for long, but still cool

another sweep for the dutchies at speedskating 10km

kind of stupid how a nation that's only good at one sport is winning the medal count at the winter olympics. clearly shows there are too many events in speedskating. as if the sport wasn't boring enough already there are like two events (male and female) for every imaginable distance (500m, 1k, 3k, 5k, 10k) plus combined and team events... what an utter bore. for a speed skating world championship maybe ok but for olympics? ridiculous imo.

still impressive (if not suspicious) how such a small nation is dominating this sport...

Well there are just a lot of great skaters in the netherlands, but it's not the fault of the Dutch that the sport is becoming less competitive internationally (and i don't think it will stay that way either), i think other strong speed skating countries like Norway, Canada and the USA should take a look at what they are doing wrong. Neither do i hear you complaining about either the Luge or skeleton events (in which germany is very succesful).

On topic of the lots of different distances, the same goes for swimming at the olympics (where you don't hear anyone crying when Phelps wins 8 medals) or for the different races at athletics.

On topic: another 2 medals for the Netherlands at speed skating, again a distance which in this case the germans and Norwegians used to dominate, now they're not even competing for the medals.

This post was edited by markiestein on Feb 19 2014 09:17am

first of all, i'm the first to agree with you about the swimming events at the summer olympics, there are most definitely too many, but this thread is about winter olympics.
and i don't complain about skeleton (where germany hasn't won a single medal btw) which has only TWO events or luge, which has exactly FOUR events because speed skating has double the events those have COMBINED!

again, i'm not taking anything away from the athletes. although many people suspect doping behind this utter dominance i say as long as there is no proof they are innocent. my only point is that there are too many events. after all this is the winter olympics and not the speed skating olympics...

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i say this because the metal count does not matter. if all counties had the same number of athletes participating in the same events, then metal count would mater. as it is, the country with the most athletes has a greater chance at winning more metals. with such an unfair comparison, i cant see how metal count matters.

This post was edited by NatureNames on Feb 20 2014 01:16pm

This is like yelling at swimming lol