Shorttrack

After the cross-country events we went back to Pinerolo and took a train to Torino to watch shorttrack. As sworn speed skating fans we think of shorttrack mostly as a joke, where one can win without being the best (ref. Steven Bradbury, 2002) and where disqualifications play just as big a role as the actual performance (ref. Apolo Ohno, 2002).So we mainly went to the shorttrack event to see some spectacular falls and rough skating. We would become very disappointed! The technique of the shorttracers is very good, and it was very interesting to see the tactics and the nice moves by the best skaters. However, we did get to see a couple of falls, we got to see Apolo Ohno disappoint all his fans by not qualifying for the final, and we got to see a Korean gold medallist.