Canadian Olympic Medal Winners To Be Paid, Canadian Domination At Long Track World Cup #2, Hoorn Photos, Iten Interview

Canadian Olympic Medal Winners To Be Paid: This news item was well received in Canada and it was all over the national news; it was announced that starting in 2008, Canadian athletes who win medals at the Olympic games will be paid up to $20000. See Canadians to be paid for Beijing medals and also Les médaillés olympiques canadiens toucheront des primes à compter de 2008.


Anouk Leblanc-Boucher won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics- she would have earned $10000 for her performance- photo from Patinage Vitesse Courte Piste
Canadian Domination At Long Track World Cup #2: Patinage Vitesse Courte Piste has posted an article called LONGUE PISTE - Domination canadienne - in English, that means LONG TRACK - Canadian domination.


Canada's Jermey Wotherspoon- photo from Patinage Vitesse Courte Piste
Speed Skating Canada has also posted an article about this past weekend's long track world cup #2- see Morrison wins 1,000, helps team pursuit to gold at speed skating World Cup.

You can also find some news about on the men's 1000-meter race in which Simon Kuipers' 3rd place medal was later awarded to Shani Davis when '...referee Jim McClements announced that not Kuipers, but Davis and Kyou-Hyuk Lee had won the bronze in the 1000m, because Kuipers did not have both blades on the ice when crossing the finish line'.


The 1000-meter finish between Davis and Kuipers
Hoorn Photos: Click here for Wesps' photo gallery from this past weekend's Hoorn KNSB Cup #7.


Hoorn KNSB Cup #7- photo from Wesps
Iten Interview: Team Rollerblade has posted an interview with Nicolas Iten.


Nicolas Iten- photo from Team Rollerblade