Subject: 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games

No chance. Watching matches I realy cant imagine another final than USA-Canada.

SLOVAKIA to the finals :)

Who is this athlete? Skater or something?

WHAT ?? Norway is the number 1 country in speedskating in history of the Olympics and you're asking who Kramer is ... ?? What is your next question, who is Håvard Bøkko or Johann Olav Koss ?? ;)
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Never heard about him

Yesterday Norway accused of not being in the rules for the relay, the brought two pairs of ski instead of one ^^

Never heard from who?

link to Sven Kramer
- Olympic Games
Gold 2010 Vancouver 5000 m
Silver 2006 Turin 5000 m
Bronze 2006 Turin Team pursuit
- World Championships
Gold 2007 Salt Lake City 5000 m
Gold 2008 Nagano 5000 m
Gold 2009 Vancouver 5000 m
Gold 2007 Salt Lake City 10000 m
Gold 2008 Nagano 10000 m
Gold 2009 Vancouver 10000 m
Gold 2007 Heerenveen All round
Gold 2008 Berlin All round
Gold 2009 Hamar All round
Gold 2007 Salt Lake City Team pursuit
Gold 2008 Nagano Team pursuit
Gold 2009 Vancouver Team pursuit
Silver 2008 Nagano 1500 m
Bronze 2005 Moscow All round
Bronze 2006 Calgary All round
- Europa Cup
Gold 2007 Collalbo All round
Gold 2008 Kolomna All round
Gold 2009 Heerenveen All round
Gold 2010 Hamar All round
Silver 2005 Heerenveen All round
- World Junior Championships
Silver 2004 Roseville Allround
Gold 2005 Seinäjoki Allround

link to Håvard Bøkko
- Olympic Games
Bronze 2010 Vancouver 1500 m
- World Championships
Silver 2008 Nagano Allround
Silver 2009 Vancouver 5000 m
Silver 2009 Vancouver 10000 m
Silver 2009 Hamar Allround
- Europa Cup
Silver 2008 Kolomna Allround
Silver 2009 Heerenveen Allround
Bronze 2006 Hamar Allround

Charles, do you really think anyone but us in the world cares about speedskating? :P... Do you Petter Northug? Or do you know Bill Demong? I don't think you do ;)

Is track speed skater a lot follow in your country?

Yes, it's on television every weekend for several hours during winter. And once it gets cold outside we start speedskating, cos we have a lot of water and ice tracks over here. So Sven Kramer is a superstar in our country, but of course he's a nobody in the rest of the world :)

It's strange because in france, we saw that sport only during olympic games

Depands, I don't watch cross-country skiing so I don't know these names no. But I watch all sports Dutch are good in (or in case of the olympics, participate), so I'm surpriced people don't know there own athletes. And more surpiced a Norwegain doesn't know speedskaters but watch Olympics ... That is strange!

And yes, more people care about speedskating or else it would have been cancelled years ago :) Speedskating is becoming more populair because inline-skating isn't Olympic, icespeedskating is.

Funny thing, last year a Frenchmen (Tristan Loy) was winner of the Open Dutch National Championships on natural ice.
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Yes that's true but maybe Eurosport show that sport i don't know because I haven't it... but the others channel no. And it's the same for all sports in olympic games.
Even biathlon where we are very good...
Only artistic skating is diffused... very boring ^^

I think that national televisions only show sports your country is good at and the non-international clubgames (probably mostly soccer..). People do not want to see sports where their country sucks.
So we swiss watch tennis (federer), ski alpin (cuche, janka) and club games like ice hockey and soccer. I think that is quite normal.

Well. Norway rocks in most of the olympic sports, so you can't blame him for not following all the competitions where Norway participates.

Btw what happened to Rintje Ritsma (spelling!)?

Yes I think it's that too.
In france sports are rugby, soccer, tennis too, handball and swimming.