(via FIBT – World Championships 2011) As you all lay around stuffed to the gills with Thanksgiving’s feast, your thoughts might turn, as they do this time of year, to sports. However, what if you’re tired of the usual season’s sporting fare? Glad you asked. There is an entire winter smorgasbord of sports going on this weekend and here’s… [read article]
(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]
Tomorrow morning, in sunny (hah!) Milwaukee, WI, the 2012 Long Track Speedskating America’s Cup #1/US Single Distance Championships/ World Cup Qualifier begins. Now, before we get into what’s at stake and who to watch this weekend there is probably one big question we should get to right away. What is up with the name of this competition? Speedskating is… [read article]
Short track speedskating kicked off a new season and we have a new fastest man in the world! JR Celski set the world record in the men’s 500m at the first ISU Short Track World Cup event in Calgary, Canada on Sunday. Celski, skating until the last lap behind Russian skater Vladimir Grigorev, passed into the lead with one… [read article]
The 2012-13 ISU Short Track World Cup kicks off tomorrow in Calgary, Canada. Despite all the major dramz that has been happening with the US Team, now is the time for them to put all that behind and start showing what they’re made of. According to the ISU announcement, tomorrow is just a qualifying day with medal races taking… [read article]
(Warning: image above is likely not representative of actual experience) Whew, this economy, huh? One day things are up, one day things are down but one thing is for certain – people always want to work in sports. Now you can! Here’s a list of great sport jobs open right now at various National Governing Bodies (NGBs). So dust… [read article]
There are WAY too many things that happen in the world of Olympic sports for us to cover in a day. So, in an effort to fill in some of the gaps, here are some great stories about (mostly) winter sports that we didn’t get to. The way this works is: we find stuff of interest, write a headline,… [read article]
(Haraz N. Ghanbari, AP) The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting that both head coach Jae Su Chun and assistant coach Jun Hyung Yeo have resigned from US Speedskating. The two were already serving suspensions following accusations that they had mentally, verbally, and physically abused skaters training in the US Speedskating Short Track National Team. As we reported on earlier, an independent… [read article]
