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Saturday, 13 March 2010
Like yesterday, there were gold medals for Jenny Wolf and Jan Smeekens in the 500m. Today, Jenny Wolf needed 37.96 to complete the distance, and this victory also secured her first place overall. For Jan Smeekens, today’s gold medal marked his fourth 500m gold World Cup medal in a row, after finishing first yesterday and in both 500m’s at the World Cup in Erfurt last weekend. Today, he finished in 35.05. The overall victory in the men’s 500m was for Tucker Fredricks, Smeekens finished second overall. After her silver medal in the Olympic 1500m, Kristina Groves claimed the gold medal in the same distance today (1:58.15). Overall, she also finished first. And finally, Håvard Bøkko raced to the fastest time in the 5000m (6.20.52), thereby also finishing first in the overall standings.
For complete results see here.
Feature story
Countdown to Vancouver: Lucas Makowsky
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
So far, it has been a great season for Lucas Makowsky. He raced to his first individual World Cup medal, in the 1500m in Hamar, after which he went on to qualify for the Olympic 1500m and 5000m by finishing first in both distances at the Canadian Single Distances Championships/Olympic Trials in Calgary. On top of that, he continuously managed to improve his personal best times in the 1500m as well as the 5000m over the past few months. With the Olympics just around the corner, Makowsky talks about his season so far and reflects on how he is looking forward to what will be his first Olympic Games.
Olympic gallery
Sunday, 31 January 2010
This week's video shows a TSN special about speedskater Clara Hughes, who has been named the flag-bearer for Canada's Olympic team. She will lead the procession of athletes and officials into B-C Place during the Feb. 12 opening ceremonies.
On Saturday 13 February 2010, the Olympic long track speed skating events will kick off in Richmond with the men’s 5000m. Will Chad Hedrick successfully defend his Olympic title or will Sven Kramer or someone else climb on the highest step of the Olympic podium?
To count down to this day, Speedskating-online is happy to present the Olympic Gallery . Every week we will post a new Olympic video, like Dan Jansen’s gold medal race in Hamar, Italy’s gold medal in the Team Pursuit in Torino, and Johann-Olav Koss’ amazing 13.30.55 during the Winter Games in Lillehammer. So stay tuned and don’t miss it!
Spot news
Check out our spot news, stories written by people involved in speed skating in one way or another on subjects that don’t necessarily have a direct link to speed skating.
Sunday, 10 January 2010
Our latest spot news entry is written by Canadian speed skater Anestasia Bucsis.
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