Highlights from the 500m men’s speed skating event at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games as the Republic of Korea’s Tae-Bum Mo claims the gold medal.

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  1. look how lucky Mo is 1:14 he hits the red thing (dont know what the word is) and it bouces agianst his other skate! if he would have stept on it, it would have ended his race.

  2. Because he didn't perform well on the day, if you look up ice speedskating 500m world record you will find that Wotherspoon has skated a much faster time than anyone did at the 2010 olympics.

  3. Guys, while it is true Wotherspoon is the fastest ever (and winningest ever also), he was slower than Mo Tae-Bum on that day by a lot. You also fail to consider the difference in ice speed between Salt Lake City (where Wotherspoon set his WR) and Richmond (Vancouver, where the Olympics were held), which is about 0,6 seconds on the 500m. Also, Wotherspoon set his WR two years prior to the Olympics, and it was ridiculous to expect him to win, since he wasn't close to being as good as he was in 08

  4. And Wotherspoon failed to shine at the Olympics, but did really good in world championships, with 4 sprint titles and a few single distance titles as well.

  5. Great to see so much money being spent on spoiled rich white people too go round in round in a circle on an event the only people on the planet care about are the participants and the family members forced to humour them and watch that boring anti-spectacle !!! Super great all this money,chemicals ,energy,electricity,resources are consumed in a big “fuck you “ to the environment fore such an obscenely frivolous waste of time !!! The Winter Olympics have nothing to do with talent and everything to do with waisting millions of dollars while people are starving in the streets

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