2010 Winter Olympics – Men’s & Women’s Speed Skating
The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics has been all about the United States in men’s speed skating.
While Apollo Anton Ohno has been the talk of the short track world, Shanni Davis and Chad Hedrick have also had impressive performances on the long track. Davis defended his 1500m gold from Torino with a spectacular run and his American teammate Hedrick went back to the medal stand with a bronze medal effort.
The relay prelims in both short and long track are set to be run and it is a pretty good chance that these same men will see the medal podium again. Another medal for Ohno and he sets the record for the most Winter medals ever by an American.
On the women’s side of the speed skating draw, the United States brings nine9 skaters to Vancouver. Rebekah Bradford has been the big U.S. women’s skater. The individual events will be run over the weekend with the pursuit and relay events to be run next week. Three US women ran in the 3000m earlier in the week and did not fair well. Martina Szablikova from the Czech Republic captured gold, Stephanie Bekert of Germany second, and Canada’s own Kristina Groves earning the bronze. The rest of the women’s events will run through the middle of next week.
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