First of all, happy Chinese New Year &  happy Valentine’s Day!

Just remember; nobody doesn’t like SpeedSkateWorld.com or Peter Doucet!

With the Olympics under way and day 1 providing great action in short track & long track speed skating, let’s turn the spotlight towards the world of roller speed skating.

EVENTS NEWS

• I shared the news about this a few days ago, but here it is again: World Champs date changes
• Are you ready for the 2010 race season?
• 2010 German Inline Cup [Anmeldung GERMAN INLINE CUP gestartet] [Anmeldung für den GERMAN INLINE CUP jetzt möglich] [German Inline Cup 2010 / Termine]

Photo from here

PICTURES & VIDEOS

Photo from Hernan Perez Peña

• Videos from Argentina
• Videos from France Indoor Champs- Vidéo : finales vitesse CJS Bougenais (44)
• Videos- Midwest Speed League Feb 8 Watertown WI (scroll down to 2nd post)
• Live video streaming from Blue Ridge Challenge
• Pictures from Colombia’s National League: Bucaramanga 2010
• Videos- France’s Indoor Championships- France Indoor CJS Vidéo des vitesses
• Pictures- Day two of racing in Lagos, Portugal: Terras do Infante
• Pictures- France Indoor Championships- from RollerSisters

Racing at Lagos, Portugal’s Terras do Infante- photo from MundoPatin.com

REPORTS & RESULTS

• France Indoor Championships- France Indoor CJS : les résultats
• Results Midwest Speed League Feb 8 Watertown WI
• Racing in Lagos, Portugal: Terras do Infante [Las clasificatorias abren el segundo día] [Ponzetti y Guyader comienzan ganando] [La lluvia llega a Lagos. Melissa Chouleysko y Yann Guyader se llevaron las primeras plazas en las competiciones de hoy]
• Report with pictures- France Indoor Championships- CHAMPIONNAT DE FRANCE INDOOR CJS 2010

France’s Indoor Championship- photo from RollerEnLigne

BLOGS & SKATERS

• Keith Carroll- Logically Thinking
• Two French roller speed skaters qualified for the Olympic Winter Games: Deux Champions du Monde Course qualifiés pour les Jeux Olympiques de Vancouver
• Shane Dobbin- Awesome
• Sara Bak training- Traningen idag i solskin :-p
• RoadRashChronicles- Closed until further notice.
• Wouter Hebbrecht- bumps on the road

New Zealand’s Shane Dobbin- photo from here

Diving deeper now, not only do I want to be an inliner I want to be a champion. Now it is easy, I’ve won a race before so sure I’ve been a champion, wrong, I’ve been a winner. There is a distinction. Even more I want to be a world champion. This is not talk, you see, it eats at me every day. I think of when I was in Colombia, Spain, China and it eats me away.

MISC

• Gas in the pace line
• New blog for RPM Poil- Web : nouveau blog de RPM Poli [Visit the site here: RPM Poli]
• USA Roller Sports- 2010 Rules
• how do we take inline-speed skating to the Olympic?
• Secret of Success- An Olympic gold medalist says it’s all about hard work, self knoweldge and technical understanding

So I started doing exercises (curved slideboard, dryland in a mirror, video analysis) to drill myself on correct technique. I kept it up for three years and by the 2002 Olympics, I had some of the most stable hips in the world — and an Olympic medal (bronze in the 1000m).