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Penultimate Post

Sunday, March 28, 2010
By Daniel Yeow
Penultimate Post

About a week ago, the speed skating season came to an end with the world allround championships in Heerenveen. Josh Lose skated in those championships and didn’t skate particularly well, owing to being slightly ill. Despite performing poorly in the regional qualifier, and believing himself to have not qualified, he got a call three...
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The Australians Are Coming

Thursday, March 11, 2010
By Daniel Yeow
The Australians Are Coming

Beep – the alarm goes off, it is 6am. It is dark. A small group of skaters drag themselves out of bed, throw some warm clothes on and grab their skating bags. We walk outside and fumble around in the darkness trying to activate the lights on our bicycles. 40 minutes later we are...
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Speed Skating Daily: Team Pursuit Final

Saturday, February 27, 2010
By Daniel Yeow
Speed Skating Daily: Team Pursuit Final

These olympics continue to surprise and inspire. Most unusual of the aftermath of the preliminaries is the absence of team Canada in the ladies’ final. The team that lost narrowly to the USA (by 4 hundredths of a second – less than a blade length) was the same team that broke the world record...
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Speed Skating Daily: Team Pursuit Preliminaries

Friday, February 26, 2010
By Daniel Yeow
Speed Skating Daily: Team Pursuit Preliminaries

The ladies’ 5000m was without incident nor any significant surprises (which itself is a bit of a surprise at these games). The favorite – Czech Martina Sablikova won, but after exhausting herself in trying to stay ahead of the pace set by German 21-year-old Stephanie Beckert which was extraordinary to say the least, taking...
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Speed Skating Daily: Ladies’ 5000m

Wednesday, February 24, 2010
By Daniel Yeow
Speed Skating Daily: Ladies’ 5000m

Just when I thought this Olympics couldn’t get more unpredictable, the men’s 10,000m threw me another curve ball. Heavily favored for the win, Sven Kramer is disqualified under the most unusual of circumstances. While making a routine lane change from the inner to the outer, coach Gerard Kemkers has a brain cramp and tells...
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Speed Skating Daily: Men’s 10,000m

Tuesday, February 23, 2010
By Daniel Yeow
Speed Skating Daily: Men’s 10,000m

The ladies’ 1500m result was, characteristically for the games, a surprise. Inspired by countryman Mark Tuitert’s spectacular win in the 1500m, Ireen Wüst equaled the track record on less-than-optimal ice conditions to set a time which was, ultimately, too difficult to catch. Favorite for the gold medal, Canadian Kristina Groves, could only manage a...
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Speed Skating Daily: Ladies’ 1500m

Sunday, February 21, 2010
By Daniel Yeow
Speed Skating Daily: Ladies’ 1500m

I’m beginning to think that I may be better off simply putting the names off the start list in a hat and randomly choosing them. Once again, the old adage that “anything can happen” in a race has been proven true. My pick for the win was nowhere to be seen while Shani Davis,...
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Speed Skating Daily: Men’s 1500m

Saturday, February 20, 2010
By Daniel Yeow
Speed Skating Daily: Men’s 1500m

Canada finally brought home the gold with Christine Nesbitt’s gutsy win the 1000m. The slow ice causing problems for many, with a lot of skaters blowing up before the finish, dutch skater Annette Gerritsen set a great time of 1:16.58 to take the lead ahead of Laurine van Riessen until Nesbitt, after being behind...
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Pep Talk

Friday, February 19, 2010
By Daniel Yeow
Pep Talk

Sophie Muir recently made history by not only becoming the first Australian long track skater in 16 years, but is also the first ever female long track olympic speed skater. We’re pretty proud of her. But it takes more than just a pretty face to get into the olympics. Literally thousands of hours of...
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Speed Skating Daily: Womens’ 1000m

Thursday, February 18, 2010
By Daniel Yeow
Speed Skating Daily: Womens’ 1000m

Slow ice conditions meant that many of the skaters in the men’s 1000m “popped” before the finish, and were unable to skate strongly all the way to the finish. The end result though was never in doubt. American Shani Davis emerged victorious and was the only competitor to go under 1:09. In second place...
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The Weather

Saturday, July 31, 2010, 4:23
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
30°C
current pressure: 1007 mb
humidity: 74%
wind speed: 11 km/h SW
sunrise: 5:55
sunset: 19:05
 

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