Here’s all the latest online ice speed skating news that I could round-up for you.
SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING NEWS
Speed Skating Canada (SSC) was thrilled to announce today the appointment of John-Paul Cody-Cox as its new Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Cody-Cox has been the Executive Director of Volleyball Canada for the past three and one-half years, prior to which he served as the association’s Marketing Director, beginning in 2004.
TVM training camp in Calgary- photo from SchaatsENZO
TVM training camp in Calgary- photo from SchaatsENZO
Through Winter of Discontent, Eva tells both her story and the story of US Speedskating. And it’s not always a nice story. But I think it’s an important one for people to hear which is why I want to make people aware of it. Whether you have an interest in sport in general or speedskating in specific, this book may make you aware of some of the things that really go on in high-level sport that you won’t hear about otherwise.
I’ll be blunt: if you’re the kind of person who needs their sports books to be full of happy endings and Rocky-esque moments, this is not the book for you to read. If you want a true insider’s view of high- level sport in what is admittedly a niche sport (and make no mistake, I’m sure athletes in all sports could tell similar stories), this is a book you will want to read. It pulls aside the veil of smoke and mirrors to let you see the real story of what goes on. This is the story you won’t see on NBC between shots of Apollo Anton Ohno winning gold, it’s not the story you’ll see in the major news media. Because it’s not a story people want to believe is true. But it is.
Here’s the latest roller & inline speed skating news-
REPORTS & RESULTS
I tried to find another video to show you The Extra Special Thing. But I can’t…you had to be there. What I wanted to show you was how Joey Mantia makes skating look like ballet. Power and grace combined. It was really cool to watch. Even someone like me who knows nothing about skating could appreciate it. I’m really glad I was there.
The 2010 Rink Rabbits World Team- photo from First Loser
Ten skaters teamed up to skate 1000km’s, broken up in 8 stages- photo from here
Taking on the 24 hours solo at Le Mans in France- photo shared by REL
NEWS- MISC, BLOGS, EVENTS
International inline skating coach Bill Begg believes Timaru could host the World Inline Speed Skating Championships in 2015 once the proposed new rink on Caroline Bay goes ahead.
The road from Two Harbors to Duluth will be smoother than ever for nearly 3,000 skaters in the 15th NorthShore Inline Marathon and half-marathon on Sept. 11.
The national team from Belgium also has a new national coach, Jorge Botero. I’m really really looking forward to Worlds to meet him and learn as much as possible from him! On Wouter Hebbrecht his blog you can read much more about him, but I’m already convinced that the Belgium team will do great with him as our coach.
Eindhoven skating center to host mid-September World On Wheels [Read more]
Copenhagen Championship canceled because of lack of entries [Read more]
International Open Rixheim: September 5th [Click here]
Roller Marathon des 3 Vallées: September 19th [Click here]
NEWS, LINKS, MISC
Revolutionized thinking for WORLD INLINE CUP 2011, I believe will be of major interest to individual skaters, sponsors & very importantly host Federation countries, major announcements shortly, the WIC will move very shortly to dispell rumours & thoughts of factional splits.
Here’s some of the latest from the world of ice speed skating;
SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING NEWS
Speed Skating Canada (SSC) is proud to announce the appointment of Nathalie Lambert to the International Skating Union Short Track Technical Committee. She is the first woman member of an ISU speed skating technical committee.
Here are a few links to results, news, and rankings from the USA Outdoor Championships recently held in Colorado Spring. I’ll post links to videos and photo albums later tonight.
All year long we train for this. We skate outside when it’s below freezing. We train outside and sometimes it starts flurrying or snowing. We keep going. We train when we are happy, sad, pissed off, tired, sore, and hurt. We train when we are fast and when we are slow. Somehow, we never stop training even when everyone close by does.
So yes the hometeam will win, yes they will be strong & yes for sure they will be desperate to Win, it will be tough for the visitors, even without the altidude situaion
Bill Begg writes about Worlds & Colombian skaters [Click here]
Here’s some of the latest short track speed skating news & online material;
Young skaters from the Toronto-area: Alex Zawada, William Preudhomme, Kevin Ryu Sun, Shan Shukla, and Chester Roxas having fun in Calgary- photo from Shan Shukla
Lee Seung-hoon, an Olympic gold medalist in long-track speed skating, is interested in competing in both short-track and long-track events at the Asian Winter Games next year.
I will start with a summary of my results from this track Championship. My first race was the 300m Time Trail in which I finished 10th, on the same day I had the 15k elimination race in which I got disqualified, in the 500m I finished 5th just out of the final, I won the points-elim and the 1000m sprint and in my last race Maarten, Ferre and I captured the silver medal on the 3K relay.
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