Winter Olympics – Speed Skating
Speed skating has kicked into high gear at the Vancouver Winter Olympics and so far the spotlight has been focused on US speed skating phenom, Apollo Anton Ohno.
A former gold medalist at 1500m, Ohno finished with the silver medal in this 1500 edition which tied him with Bonnie Blair for the most Winter Olympics medals by an American. Ohno has more events and should walk away as the most decorated American Winter Olympian.
He currently holds six total medals and the even greater thing is that Ohno is a native of Seattle and trained during his younger days in Vancouver.
Another skater that has been in the spotlight as far as speed skating goes is Canada’s own Jeremy Wortherspoon.
Wortherspoon has been hailed as one of the greatest speed skaters of all time on the World Cup circuit. During the 1998 Nagano Olympics he placed 2nd in the 500m but since then has been a disappointment in the Olympics. Wortherspoon came up short again in Vancouver as he had a 9th place finish. This is probably the last time the Canadian will be at the Olympic games.
Stayed tuned into NBC’s complete coverage of the Vancouver Winter Olympics as there is plenty of speed skating left as the relays and some individual events are still left to be run.
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