But when he finished he found out he was disqualified. With 8 laps to go Kramer started to switch to the outside lane as he was supposed to. His coach gesticulated wildly and told him to get to the inside lane. Oops. He skated the remainder of the race in wrong laned, got DQed, blamed the entire thing on his coach (rightfully so) and even shoved the guy as he tried to console him.
I happened to catch this because I was DVRing the coverage and the announcers had no idea what happened at first. How did they not see Kramer almost stop and briefly argue with his coach about the proper lane to be in. And how did they not know he had skated two consecutive laps on the inner?
Anyway, the coach Gerard Kemkers must feel like the biggest piece of shit alive right now, but it could be all Kramers fault.
Check out what happened after Kramer won the 5,000 nearly a week before.
He called the poor lady from NBC stupid because she wanted him to state his name, country and sport. Tape identification, pretty standard, but he took it has a huge insult since he'd just won the gold medal and everything. The lady should have just said "I'm here with Sven Kramer of the Netherlands who just won gold in the 5,000 meters speedskating" and she might have saved everyone, a lot of embarrassment.
But maybe next time Kramer will handle it a little better and avoid the karmic bitchslap which cost him gold.
3 comments:
thats BS. She damn well should have fuckin known better.
Damn, this video has been axed from the web from what I can tell. I felt really bad for this guy, but from what it sounds like, yeah, a karmic smack.
From what I understand though, he's an insanely gigantic star in his country, so it's like asking LeBron James "Who are you, and what do you play?"
I had felt bad for him until i saw he was a giant doucher
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