The Orange women. (from left: Marrit Leenstra, Marije Joling, Ireen Wüst) after their victory in early November in Obihiro. Today they took the World by also winning the third game, or in a different composition than in this picture. Photo EPA / KIMIMASA Mayama
The skating season is only a few weeks on the road, but the first price that counts is already there for Netherlands: women this afternoon grabbed their third World Cup win in the team pursuit final victory in the rankings
The reason there. Now all the world cups are forgiven, is the fact that the team pursuit this season but was run three times, in three of the first four World Cups. The Dutch women were by far the best in all the races, they won them all. Even today at the home track in Heerenveen. Carlijn Achtereekte, Marrit Leenstra and Jorien House won in 2.59,69. Germany was second, Poland third. That was the order of the podium in the final standings.
Netherlands won at the last Winter Games in Sochi all gold on the line.
Men failed the
A post-Olympic season if it means a little shifting priorities. That is also the reason that the Dutch men’s team pursuit, which they in Sochi as the women won gold, a little thrown off shooting this season. Yesterday they were second in the last World Cup race, so they were second behind South Korea in the battle for the World Cup.
Not surprisingly, perhaps, because someone like Sven Kramer only drove the very first World Cup in Obihiro Japan, with it. Who won Netherlands whatsoever. The last two world cup in Berlin this weekend in Heerenveen, reason Douwe de Vries, Frank Vreugdenhil and Arjan Stroetinga. No Koen Verweij, not Jan Blokhuijsen, no Wouter Olde Heuvel
Continue in Heerenveen
Furthermore, striking the last two World Days:.
- For the season nobody really knew him, but he also proved this weekend to be the best sprinter of the moment, the Russian Pavel Koelizjnikov (€). Suspended in 2012 due to doping as a junior, already winner of four World Cup races in the 500 meters and two in the 1000 meters. Yesterday he won by force majeure, and in quick time, the first 500 meters, today more than 1,000 meters.
- The American women are back. During the Olympic Games in Sochi failed the entire US team on almost inexplicably, but the performance is there again. So why Heather Richardson and Brittany Bowe, the absolute top sprint, both fast 500 meters yesterday and today they were one and two in the 1,000 meters. Richardson even equaled the track record: 1.14,63. Ireen Wust and Marrit Leenstra were only fourth and eighth, away.
- On the ten kilometers, he is more vulnerable than ever, but Sven Kramer is still good five kilometers. Today he won for the second time in two games that he participated. Jorrit Bergsma, Olympic champion in ten kilometers, was just over a second from second. A small difference, but Kramer is not busy Bergsma, he said after the race according to Reuters news agency: “If he has me worried? No, these differences between us, we have had more “
There is a lot of skepticism among his fellow skaters. Who was already there because Koelizjnikovs doping past but possibly more because of the documentary that the German broadcaster ARD last week sent out, which revealed was done how widespread it doping is used by Russian athletes.
Pavel Koelizjnikov. ANP Photo / Bas Czerwinski
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