(16-year-old phenom Emery Lehman) Big Deal #1: Heather Richardson. Today the ISU Long Track Speedskating World Cup season started off in the Netherlands, and Heather Richardson from High Point, NC brought back the first medal of the year for the US. Richardson won silver today in the women’s 500m (37.95), one tenth of a second behind the winner, Korea’s… [read article]
Just how impressive was Heather Richardson‘s performance this weekend at the 2012 Long Track Speedskating America’s Cup #1/US Single Distance Championships/ World Cup Qualifier? The 23-year-old from High Point, NC won every race, five in total; setting track records in her best two events, the 1,000m and 1,500m. We took a look back to figure out some of the… [read article]
(picture via US Speedskating) Day two is a wrap! The results from the second day of the 2012 Long Track Speedskating America’s Cup #1/US Single Distance Championships/ World Cup Qualifier are coming in and we have the unofficial results (as posted by US Super-Coach Ryan Shimabukuro) Once again, Heather Richardson is the dominant story winning both the women’s 2nd 500m… [read article]
(via Wikipedia) Day one of the 2012 Long Track Speedskating America’s Cup #1/US Single Distance Championships/ World Cup Qualifier trials for long track speedskating are done (See here for why the name is so long) and the two big stories are: 1) Heather Richardson = Awesome and 2) Team Roster = Hard to Know. Richardson has already proven herself… [read article]
(Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images) For Americans, the women’s 1000m at the 2012 ISU World Single Distance Speedskating Championships was a thrilling race, not so much for the final outcome – although it was exciting – but for the massive potential shown by Heather Richardson and Brittany Bowe. Unsurprisingly, Canada’s Christine Nesbitt won the 1000m world title. Nesbitt went… [read article]
Shani Davis of USA in first place, Stefan Groothuis of Netherlands, Kjeld Nuis of Netherlands for second and third place. Men’s 1000m Overall. Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Joern Pollex/Bongarts/Getty Images) This weekend was the 2012 ISU Speedskating World Cup season finale, held in Berlin, Germany. The 2011-2012 season is almost complete, with only one event remaining – the 2012 World… [read article]
(Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images) The final ISU Speedskating World Cup of the 2011-12 season is underway right now in Berlin, Germany and for the next hour or so you can still catch the men’s 1500m (footage will probably be done around 11:30am EST). The US’s Shani Davis is in position to lock up another world cup 1500m overall… [read article]
This past weekend, US Speedskating’s long track team had one of its best world cup of the year. The team, led by Shani Davis and Heather Richardson, won gold in the men’s 500m, 1000m, 1500m, and women’s 1000m, as well as two bronzes in the women’s 500m. Richardson was responsible for all of the women’s medals and has been… [read article]
(Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images) Howdy friends. I’m about to hop on a plane so I don’t have time to do a thorough re-cap of today’s skating but - wow. It was an amazing day for the US Speedskating team at the 6th ISU Speedskating World Cup in Heerenveen, Netherlands. Heather Richardson won her first ever world cup gold…. [read article]
(Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images) As of 9:40am this morning there is still time to catch the last few 10k’s by the men at the 2012 ISU World Cup #6 in Heerenveen, Netherlands. It’s been a good day for the US already, earlier this morning Tucker Fredricks made up for yesterday’s rough 500m to come back and win today…. [read article]
