Mulder twins lead another Dutch speedskating sweep

And the third Mulder - "Fox" is investigating some kind of Dutch conspiracy ;-)

Pretty impressive work by the Dutch, great technique, they make it look so easy.

Poor Australian kid Daniel Greig does the 'Reverse Bradbury' and flops on his face and slides to ignominy.

What with the Aussies in this olympic with falling, Daniel Greig and the guy in the moguls.

Just watched the afternoon "wide show", some former bronze medalist claimed that the ice was made by Dutch ice makers, and it was made to suit their skaters. According to him,they made it softer, so the Japanese skaters would be slower. Not sure how that would benefit their skaters, but that is what he said. Let the excuses begin!

I tried desperately to watch some coverage of this event and all I saw was the same whining over and over and over again. Can't they get some objective coverage of international sports events here for a change? Hiroyasu Shimizu, the former 500m gold medalist with the incredible thighs, claimed that the Dutch speedskaters stole the cornering technique from the Japanese. Haha, really? And he also claimed that the people in charge of preparing the ice floor are from the Netherlands and that they kept the ice soft on purpose, to give an advantage to the Dutch skaters, adding that soft ice does not suit Asian speedskaters. These sentiments were parroted by fellow former speedskaters Okazaki and Horii. Well, the fellow that designed and oversaw constructing of the Sochi ice rink is actually from the Netherlands and he might be in Sochi at the moment, but to suggest he is keeping the ice soft for the benefit of the Dutch speedskaters is a rather childish claim and certainly not becoming people with first hand experience as speedskaters. No speedskater likes soft ice and it would certainly not benefit the Dutch skaters who are about 15~20 kgs heavier than the Japanese skaters. I very much doubt that any person in the Netherlands would have expected them to win all medals in this event, since they ususally do far better at long distance events, but then, all these 3 fellows have been strong all season. On tv they also mentioned that the Japanese skaters deserved to finish 1-2, having worked so hard for it, but what have the other 20~30 or so skaters been doing then? Just give some credit to these guys instead of this unsportsmanlike drivel.

As for soft ice not being suitable to Japanese speed skaters - it could be true. Something to do with the length of one's intestines.

I noticed the sign on the top right of the screen saying 'Japan to get their first medals at Sochi' disappear quite quickly. Jumping the gun (again).