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Re: Vancouver XXI Olympic Winter Games

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Originally Posted by danielf (Post 34969346)

Oh my god...

You really couldn't make this up. Sven Kramer, the red hot favourite for the mens 10k speed skating is disqualified after posting the top time, as he chooses the wrong lane.

Speed skating is done on a 400m oval, and riders change lanes once a lap as the outside lane is longer than the inside lane, thus making sure every lap is 400m. This is normally not problematic, but Kramer's coach Kemkers was somehow convinced that Kramer needed to go into the inner lane when Kramer was getting ready to take the outside lane. So he shouts to him to get into the inside lane. Kramer who is firmly on his way to Gold (with a 6 second lead over the fastest time at that point) starts to doubt, and goes for the inside lane, and gets rightly disqualified. I am so gutted. I've never seen anything like this. How can you lose an Olympic gold over such a freak misunderstanding? :bigcry:

Surely he knew he'd just finished the inside track and was on his way out to the outer track? Maybe he deserves it for being so daft! :D

Re: Vancouver XXI Olympic Winter Games

Yes, there is that. He did go on camera and was surprisingly calm and collected. Both are to blame, but it isn't helpful for a coach (who's gone on camera and took full blame) to confuse the athlete.

I've seen some weird things happen over the years. A famous examples is of a skater that lost count of how many laps he had to go. He started his sprint in the penultimate lap, and the commentators were raving about how much he apparently had left in the tank. They were slightly less enthousiastic when he stopped skating when he had one lap left to go.

It's a freak thing I suppose. **** happens. It's just hard to laugh about it when a dead certain olympic gold medal goes out the window through driver/coach error.

Well done to Lee Seung Hoon of Korea for posting the second time and taking Gold though. None of the others came close to his time. :tu:

Re: Vancouver XXI Olympic Winter Games

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Originally Posted by Charlie_Bubble (Post 34969360)

Surely he knew he'd just finished the inside track and was on his way out to the outer track? Maybe he deserves it for being so daft! :D

Talking about daft...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olym...10/8533399.stm :D