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?
