Day Nine or the Dutch Doom

Today was the Men's 10K.

Excitement reigned.  Everyone wanted tosee what kind of skate Sven Kramer from the Nederlands would skate.

Things were going as usual until the Korean skater, Lee, set an Olympic record and really lowered the time.

The next few skaters tried, but couldn't get anywhere near the time. 

Now it is Kramer's turn.  The Dutch go KNUTTTS.  His first few lapse are pure indication he wants this Gold and the Olympic medal. 

All is well as he keeps his lap time in the 32 sec range.  He is steadily faster and faster than the Korean.

Then lap 16 of 25 something seems to go wrong with the timing system.  There is a buzz in the facility and those who know, know something is wrong. 

There was something wrong and what had happened was he should have skated an outer instead he skated an inner.  So at the end he sets an Olympic record and is DQed.

Kramer had started to skate the outer and then changed to the inner.  Apparently his coach was yelling at him to skate the inner, so he did.  Oops!

Everyone figured that the coach and Kramer would severe their relationship, but Kramer says no.

We figured that that Boo Boo cost Kramer 100,000 Euros.

Oh well another day at the office.