Lots of short track today

Short track is the best sport if you have a short attention span.

Take the 500m qualifying races today. Generally, you’re looking at 40-45 seconds. Come on, you can pay attention for 40 seconds.

The women’s 3000m relay on the other hand requires you to pay attention for about five minutes. The Americans were far back by about half a lap, leaving a three team race between South Korea, China and the Canadians. When it was over, that’s the order of the finish, but then the judges had to look at whether a South Korean skater fouled a skater from China. South Korea was doing their victory lap while the judges were still looking at replays. The Americans were waiting to see if they might end up with a medal by default. In the end, South Korea was denied a gold after being disqualified, and the American women won their first short track medal in 16 years. That’s going to be controversial with the South Koreans, but that’s short track.