Canterbury speed skater Blake Skjellerup has secured two starts for New Zealand at next year's Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Skjellerup has just contested the Olympics' short track speed skating world qualification series in...
China edged its arch-rival the Republic of Korea and took the women's 3,000-meter relay title with a time of 4 minutes and 10.785 seconds at the short track World Cup speed skating final in Marquette, the United States on...
Canwest News ServiceNovember 14, 2009 6:53 PM Photograph by: Jonathan Ferrey, Getty Images Francois-Louis Tremblay of Alma, Que., took the gold medal in the men’s 500-metre final Saturday at the short-track speed skating...
Short track is the more unruly younger brother of speed skating. While speed skaters compete in separate lanes and against the clock, in short track everyone is racing together on the same stretch of ice. The rink is smaller...
The World Cup events in speed skating, November 5-8, 2009, provided an excellent opportunity to showcase the performance of our talented Canadian athletes. Canada was very well represented at the events by a strong team....
The Leader-PostNovember 9, 2009 Regina skaters Sean Hope, Stephen Hope, Roslynn Dagenais and Tanya Workman all won gold medals at the Yara Fall Classic short track speed skating meet in Regina this weekend. The meet featured...
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A stumble in the second corner likely cost Denny Morrison a spot on the podium Friday in the opening men’s 1,000-metre race of the International Skating Union World Cup long track speed skating season.
The name “Colbert Nationâ€_ — the catchall for the legion of ardent fans of the satirical Comedy Central program — will be emblazoned on the team's uniforms. NEW YORK (AP) — Of the many countries participating at the...
There’s something to be said for a game that has Bowser performing a triple Salchow in figure skating or Dr. Eggman sweeping the ice in curling. I’m just not sure what that something is, though. Exciting? Surreal? Blasphemous?...