Long-track World Cup returns to Utah Olympic Oval
Brittany Bowe and Heather Bergsma are at it once again. Need proof? The two American long-track speedskaters each set new world records within minutes of one another in last weekend’s 2015-16 ISU World...
View ArticleWatch Dem Speedskaters Whip ... From Wheels To Ice (United States Olympic...
(Source: United States Olympic Committee) By Karen Price | Nov. 19, 2015, 4:40 p.m. (ET) Heather (Richardson) Bergsma is among the speedskaters that have made the transition from inline skating to the...
View ArticleSpeedskater Mitch Whitmore Breaks 500-Meter American Record, Wins First World...
(Source: United States Olympic Committee) By Brandon Penny | Nov. 20, 2015, 9:49 p.m. (ET) Mitch Whitmore celebrates winning silver in the men's 500-meter at the ISU World Cup on Nov. 20, 2015 in Salt...
View ArticleFive For Friday: Long Track Speedskating (United States Olympic Committee)
(Source: United States Olympic Committee) By Paul D. Bowker | Nov. 20, 2015, 12:01 a.m. (ET) Brittany Bowe (L) and Heather (Richardson) Bergsma will look to continue their dominant ways at the ISU...
View ArticleBergsma, Bloemen break world speedskating records
American Heather Bergsma broke the world record in the women's 1,500 meters Saturday in the World Cup speedskating event at the Utah Olympic Oval, and Canada's Ted-Jan Bloemen shattered the mark in the...
View ArticleCanada’s Bloemen sets new long track world record, wins gold (Canadian...
(Source: Canadian Olympic Committee) At the second long track World Cup stop of the season, Bloemen obliterated Sven Kramer's long-held global standard by completing the 10,000m event in 12 minutes and...
View ArticleHeather Bergsma Breaks Brittany Bowe’s Week-Old 1,500-Meter Speedskating...
(Source: United States Olympic Committee) By Brandon Penny | Nov. 22, 2015, 3:12 a.m. (ET) Heather Bergsma and her mother, Pat, celebrate Bergsma's world record in the 1,500-meter at the ISU World Cup...
View ArticleBowe Reclaims 1,000-Meter Speedskating World Record From Best Friend Bergsma...
(Source: United States Olympic Committee) By Darnell Dickson | Nov. 22, 2015, 10:41 p.m. (ET) Brittany Bowe celebrates her victory in the women's 1,000-meter race at the ISU World Cup on Nov. 22, 2015...
View ArticleBowe breaks women's 1,000 record in World Cup event
American Brittany Bowe broke the world record in the women's 1,000 meters Sunday in the World Cup speedskating event at the Utah Olympic Oval. Bowe, from Ocala, Florida, finished in 1 minute, 12.18...
View ArticleUS seems to be skating in mud at speedskating oval
SOCHI, Russia More than an hour after the latest disappointment at Adler Arena, the bigwigs of U.S. speedskating huddled glumly in the empty stands, talking urgently among themselves, trying to figure...
View ArticleU.S. short-track championships return to Utah Olympic Oval
Over 40 athletes are set to compete in this weekend's U.S. short-track speedskating championships at the Utah Olympic Oval in Kearns. Up for grabs are spots on the upcoming ISU World Cup team as well...
View ArticleBergsma wins final 5,000 World Cup race
Olympic speedskating 10,000-meter champion Jorrit Bergsma won the final World Cup 5,000 race of the season Sunday to seal the title in the combined long-distance rankings. Bergsma finished in...
View ArticleOlympics: Dutch women sweep 1,500, Americans fall short again
Sochi, Russia • They weren’t distracted. They weren’t angry. But no matter what Heather Richardson and Brittany Bowe and the rest of the American speedskaters have or haven’t done at the Sochi...
View ArticleOlympics: Dutch women sweep1500, Americans fall short again
Sochi, Russia • They weren’t distracted. They weren’t angry. But no matter what Heather Richardson and Brittany Bowe and the rest of the American speedskaters have or haven’t done at the Sochi...
View ArticleSang-hwa breaks world record again in women's 500 metre
KEARNS, Utah -- South Korea's Lee Sang-hwa broke the world record in the women's 500 metres for the second straight day and third time in eight days, finishing in 36.36 seconds Saturday in a World Cup...
View ArticleSpeedskating: Richardson, Bowe finish 1-2 in Kazakhstan
On the third day of a World Cup speedskating meet in Kazakhstan, Americans Heather Richardson and Brittany Bowe blew away the field. The Utah-based teammates blitzed the rest of the women in the 1,000...
View ArticleJoey Mantia Wins 1,500m World Cup In Heerenveen, Leads Season Standings...
(Source: United States Olympic Committee) By Associated Press | Dec. 13, 2015, 2:17 p.m. (ET) Joey Mantia celebrates after competing in the 1,500-meter at the ISU World Cup Speed Skating held at Thialf...
View ArticleJessica Smith Gets Season Off To A Fast Start (United States Olympic Committee)
(Source: United States Olympic Committee) By Darnell Dickson | Nov. 12, 2014, 7:18 p.m. (ET) Jessica Smith competes during 500-meter competition at the ISU Short Track World Cup at the Utah Olympic...
View ArticleCalgary’s Olympic Oval welcomes 220 skaters from Canada and around the world...
(Source: Speed Skating Canada) A total of 220 Canadian speed skaters along with athletes from the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, United States and India will compete March 19-22 at the Olympic Oval in...
View ArticleCanadians open long track World Cup season in Calgary with seven medals...
(Source: Canadian Olympic Committee) Feature photo: William Dutton celebrates his second 500m medal of the weekend. Three of the medals came on Sunday, two of which from the same race courtesy of...
View ArticleSpeedskating: Shani Davis leads solid U.S. performance at World Cup event
Kearns • Safe to say, the ice is as fast as it has ever been at the Utah Olympic Oval. Speedskaters broke two world records and 15 national records on the first day of a World Cup event there on Friday...
View ArticleFive For Friday: Speedskating (United States Olympic Committee)
(Source: United States Olympic Committee) By Paul D. Bowker | Oct. 16, 2015, 12:01 a.m. (ET) Shani Davis competes in the men's 500-meter during the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia....
View ArticleOlympic champion Shani Davis stars in World Cup qualifier
SALT LAKE CITY — Olympic champion Shani Davis matched the fastest 1,000-meter time in the world this season, finishing in 1 minute, 7.63 seconds Sunday in the U.S....
View ArticleShani Davis may compete in pursuit at Sochi Olympics
Kearns • Armed with three straight victories and some of the fastest times ever, speedskater Shani Davis already has affirmed that he will be the clear favorite to win his middle-distance specialties...
View ArticleSpeedskating: Tucker Fredricks hopes hot start continues in Kearns
Tucker Fredricks isn’t afraid to admit it. After the worst season of his long and illustrious speedskating career, the 29-year-old two-time Olympian had started to fear that age and injury were making...
View ArticleSpeedskating: Fredricks hopes hot start continues in Kearns
Tucker Fredricks isn’t afraid to admit it. After the worst season of his long and illustrious speedskating career, the 29-year-old two-time Olympian had started to fear that age and injury were making...
View ArticleSpeedskating: Brittany Bowe blossoming at just the right time as Olympic...
Speedskater Brittany Bowe touched the ice for the first time barely 31/2 years ago, when she finished a college basketball career and moved to Utah to pursue her goal of reaching the Olympics. Already,...
View ArticleSpeedskating: American Brittany Bowe sets world record in 1,000 meters
Kearns • Speedskater Brittany Bowe isn’t just a former college basketball player and champion in-line skater, anymore. Now, she’s a world-record holder, too. Join the Discussion The 25-year-old Florida...
View ArticleSpeedskating: Americans earns two more World Cup victories.
The U.S. Speedskating long-track team enjoyed another strong day at the opening World Cup event of the season on Sunday, with Tucker Fredricks and Heather Richardson racing to victories in Calgary,...
View ArticleBowe, Richardson, Davis headline long track World Cup qualifiers
Eleven Olympians return to the ice at the Utah Olympic Oval in Kearns on Friday for the upcoming U.S. long track speedskating World Cup qualifiers. Skaters will participate in the 500-, 1,000- ,1,500-...
View ArticleSpeedskating: Shani Davis says he’s ‘on the right path’
Shani Davis, Brittany Bowe and Heather Richardson headline the U.S. Speedskating long-track team that will open its World Cup season in Calgary this weekend before making a stop at the Utah Olympic...
View ArticleU.S. Long Track Speedskaters Ready To Rebound (United States Olympic Committee)
(Source: United States Olympic Committee) By Karen Rosen | Nov. 14, 2014, 1:31 a.m. (ET) Shani Davis competes in the men's 1,500-meter at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games at Adler Arena Skating...
View ArticleShani Davis qualifies for US World Cup roster
KEARNS, Utah — Shani Davis is among eight Olympians who qualified for the U.S. long-track speedskating team that will compete on the fall World Cup circuit. Davis skated the fastest 1,000...
View ArticleBrittany Bowe Breaks Oldest Women’s Speedskating World Record (United States...
(Source: United States Olympic Committee) By Brandon Penny | Nov. 15, 2015, 6:43 p.m. (ET) Brittany Bowe celebrates crossing the finish line after she competes in the women's 1,000-meter race at the...
View ArticleU.S. Olympic long-track speedskating teams set
KEARNS, Utah — Shani Davis is headed to his fourth and likely final Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, as the anchor to what is possibly the strongest U.S. long-track speedskating team in more than a...
View ArticleHeather Richardson-Bergsma Breaks 1,000-Meter World Record – Minutes After...
(Source: United States Olympic Committee) By Brandon Penny | Nov. 14, 2015, 6:22 p.m. (ET) Heather Richardson celebrates after she wins the gold medal in the women's 500-meter at the ISU World Single...
View ArticleSpeedskating: Shani Davis wins men’s 1,000 in season-opening World Cup event
Two-time Olympic champion Shani Davis won the men’s 1,000 meters at the season-opening World Cup event for speedskating in Calgary on Saturday, with American teammate Brian Hansen close behind in third...
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