World Record Speedskating, 1000m , P. Koskela 1:07.00

Pekka Koskela, 1:07.00 , 1000m, Salt lake City, 11th of November 2007.

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• 1:07.00
• Pekka
• Koskela
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• 1000
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[basrare]

Didn't expect Koskela to do this. just amazing..

[StenStyren]

Outer lane always prior to the innor one and since Morrison would have been disqualified if he didn´t let Koskela pass him he had to stand up. Since 1000 meter is a sprint distance it was no point in continuing.

[babyphatgirl31]

totally of limit

[lorenzob123]

if he would continue he would have been in Koskela's way, and disqualified. Going from outer to inner lane has by rule advantage over going from inner to outer. So morrison had to wait, which costed so many time, he saved his energy for another day and stopped. It maybe doesnt seem like a big issue, but having the feeling you have to wait costs 10th's of a second and you can't afford that in sprintskating. By the way, if the colided, and i think they did, morrison would have been DQ'd anyway

[deltaecho1]

what happened to Denny Morrison???????? He Quit skating at the half way mark???

[suharinos]

Nowdays Koskela is like a shadow what he used to be...

[basrare]

Too bad he lost it ;(

[kiepenboertie]

morrison had a higher speed than koskela when they came out of the 2nd curve. buth he was just too late with his acceleration

[StenStyren]

When this movie was made the rule i was discussing was not made yet.

Last time i skated at an international competition (somewhere in November) we got this rule explained to us. However, i have not been able to find any official statement that the rule was changed so i don´t know.

From what i got explained to me this was introduced at the same time as rule 256 (You may under not cross the inner line of the track (previously you could do it if it wasn´t intended to "Shorten the distance"

[kakeper321]

Well, the skater coming from outer track has the priority. Do you have a source that back up your statement about the skater with highest speed got priority? If they made a rule like that, how could they enforce this rule since it isn't easy to determine who got most speed.

In this case Morrison had to let Koskela go. If he hadn't, Koskela would have been disturbed and Morrison would have been disqualified. Too bad, I think Morrison would have made a good time.

[StenStyren]

The blue guy starts ahead so that when both skaters have done their first curve they will have skated the same distance. Since this was after the 2nd curve the guy in blue had skated a longer distance and that´s why they guy on the inner track had to let him pass.

They have now changed the rules so that it´s the guy with the highest speed that has priority, but in normal cases that is always the guy on the outer track anyway.

[hoto888]

he has to let him pass because otherwise he would be disqualified, in such an occurence the outer lane has advantage