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Post by ricksny on Mar 21, 2010 8:37:21 GMT -8
Guess the Canadian coverage is over. Too bad they didn't finish covering the ceremonies especially the special one they talked about
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Post by Apologold on Mar 21, 2010 10:06:53 GMT -8
Mannnnn I haven't posted on a MB in a long time!
But I did want to come out and commend the USA's performance at the Worlds! We were missing Apolo but our men still finishe second in the relay, and JR came close to an overall medal!
On to the World Team Champs...go USA!
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Post by sunshine on Mar 21, 2010 12:02:15 GMT -8
It is my understanding that this is the last year for a World Team Championship and Team USA is not participating. On Jordan's Ustream video Qand A with the five men, they all talk about what their plans are after the World Championship..........they are next spreading in the wind around the globe............
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Post by Laura (Lori) on Mar 21, 2010 19:25:58 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2010 9:00:40 GMT -8
Got this very interesting article in my Google search today. Of course we all hear stories of politics in short track but the ones I generally hear involve the US or Canadian organizations. I wondered from the first day of World Championships why Lee Jung So wasn't skating. Here's one explanation. www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/sports/2010/03/136_63024.html
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Post by Laura (Lori) on Mar 25, 2010 15:17:19 GMT -8
Got this very interesting article in my Google search today. Of course we all hear stories of politics in short track but the ones I generally hear involve the US or Canadian organizations. I wondered from the first day of World Championships why Lee Jung So wasn't skating. Here's one explanation. www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/sports/2010/03/136_63024.htmlYeah, I was wondering why he wasn't skating, too. (I'm going to copy this to The Koreans thread)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2010 20:09:07 GMT -8
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.... The Case of the Missing Short Track Skating Lap At the International Skating Union World Short Track Speed Skating Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, which ended on Monday, the skaters in the men's 3,000 m Super Final finished the race without skating one last lap, it emerged on Wednesday. The 3,000 m race requires 27 laps, but they skated only 26. Lee Ho-suk came from behind in the 26th lap and overtook J.R. Celski of the U.S. to finish first. Kwak Yoon-gy, who was in third place, also managed to pass Celski to finish second. Celski came in third. However, no one -- neither the athletes, coaches, ISU officials, referees nor the audience -- realized that the skaters had not raced the 27th lap, so the awards ceremony took place and the competition concluded. The ISU only discovered the fact later, and did not post the time records of the race on its official website. It turned out that the ISU referee made a mistake in counting the number of laps, and rang the bell indicating the final lap too early. The mistake will not affect the results of the race, although the times will not be recognized. The Korea Skating Union said on Wednesday, "The Korean national short track team analyzed its own video, and we confirmed that all seven skaters in the final skated one lap short."
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Post by Laura (Lori) on Mar 25, 2010 22:30:29 GMT -8
REALLY? That is so bizarre! I wonder if at any point they thought a World Record had been set???
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Post by Laura (Lori) on Mar 27, 2010 10:19:07 GMT -8
Here's a nice blog about World Championships, with substantial mentions of Jordan's UStream webchats and a nod to Tony Chung as well! Short Track World Championships: Relays, Super Finals & Social Media Mayhem Blog: Words to Bumble / March 23, 2010 This weekend I discovered how to watch obscure winter sports that have been rudely neglected by Universal Sports (which had recently made me so happy regarding the Alpine ski season), purely thanks to the wonders of social media. Between Twitter investigation and US Speed Skating on Facebook, I discovered that the TVU Networks Player carries Chinese and Korean sports channels and Tony Chung provides mucho helpful live commentary to short track events on Twitter (you know, since I am Chinese and Korean challenged).
FYIs completed, let’s move on to the action.
The Men:
The men’s team was comprised of Kyle Carr, J.R. Celski, Simon Cho, Travis Jayner and Jordan Malone. They not only gave a strong showing at these ISU World Championships, but also social media-ed it up with a lot of conversational tweeting and a couple informal live webcasts for fans… which was ‘interesting’ and definitely involved nearly toxic numbers of teenage girls, leading Cho to wonder, “How many of you skipped school to watch this?”To read the entire entry: www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/user%2F10946473119433287297%2Fstate%2Fcom.google%2Freading-list
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