Chad Hedrick in the final lap of his 1500m in Calgary Canada finally brought home the gold with Christine Nesbitt’s gutsy win the 1000m. The slow ice causing problems [more...]
Sophie Muir 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 [more...]
Nesbitt leads 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 [more...]
One word: Shani The (South) Koreans seem bent on messing up my predictions. Lee Sang Hwa skated brilliantly to hold off a second-race charge from Jenny Wolf who asserted her [more...]
Jenny Wolf vs Beixing Wang A suspenseful running of the men’s 500m concluded yesterday with 21st-birthday-boy Mo Tae Bum being the only person to go under 35 seconds on [more...]
Joji Kato nears the end of the first 100m of his 500m Yesterday’s women’s 3000m was no surprise at all. Sablikova won the Czech Republic’s first gold medal [more...]
Who do you think will win the 3k? I was kinda hoping that I would… There were a few surprises in yesterday’s men’s 5000m. Sven Kramer won in olympic record [more...]
The moment the gun fires Predictions for the first half of the speed skating competition. (I would have had this up much earlier, but it took hours to render then even longer [more...]
Sven Kramer and Bob de Jong, both of the Netherlands, make ready for the 5000m Sven Kramer should win the men’s 5000m today, but Bob de Jong could cause an upset, as [more...]
So I’m in Canada and, by the end of this season, will have been here for over three months of the previous twelve. Yet it was only recently that we played our first [more...]
As many of you know, I enjoy taking photos. Some of you even enjoy viewing those photos. Seeing as I do not have any kind of media accreditation for this event, my ability to [more...]
Those few of you who know me and live in the Netherlands know that I often inadvertently appear on Dutch television. This is mostly because I get press passes to speed [more...]
Josh on his way to a 6:27.03 in the 5000m There has been a great deal of anxiety surrounding the final list of competitors for speed skating in the upcoming Olympic Winter [more...]
Reeeeaaaaaadddyyy… Calgary It is time for another update. After two weeks off without training because of my back, I am now slowly starting to get back into it. How [more...]
I am slowly becoming more proficient at this whole video-editing business. I’m probably also getting slightly better with the actual shooting as well, although the [more...]