LT World Cup #1, Blog News- EGCSkates & LocalMN, Shani Davis Skating World Cup This Weekend, REL Updates, Heelys & Disney, Utrecht Pics, Sk-Force

LT World Cup #1: This season's first long track world cup is starting today in Salt Lake City. You can find updated and ongoing results here You can find some more results and updates on SpeedkatingResults.com.

Blog News- EGCSkates & LocalMN: Boot-maker in the making Eric Gee's latest post is called 29 days- if you'd like to get the inside track on what Eric's been up and where he's going with his boots, make sure you read the entry. Eric kindly posted some pictures of his boot making process.

LocalMN Blog has had some interesting posts, but the skating relevant entry is called A Closer Look at the Inaugural Houston Inline Marathon- how's this for props? 'Justin McMurtry did a fantastic job coordinating the inaugural Houston Inline Marathon from the registration, zoning auto traffic, cool pre-race expo at the Last Concert Cafe, and putting together a great race-day event, and more. This isn’t easy at all'.

Shani Davis Skating World Cup This Weekend: After surfing around and finding news that Shani Davis would not be competing in this weekend's long track world cup in Salt Lake City, some new developments have surfaced. If you haven't guessed by my 'title', it is being reported that USA's Shani Davis is competing in the long track world cup, which begins today. Go to Shani Davis Speedskating and you'll find the words 'Shani will not skate Salt Lake City World Cup' crossed out.


REL Updates: Here are a couple of items recently put up on Roller En Ligne- a shop called Ligne Droite and Renard Inline udpates.


Heelys & Disney: The Inline Planet has posted an article called Did Disney Dump Skaters for Heelys?. Did skating get dumped? Ugh! Not cool, not cool at all. I got dumped by a girl with who I once went to skate the Disney Marathon, and it was not cool, not cool at all. Hehehehe.

Utrecht Pics: Here's a photo gallery that from the Utrecht KNSB Cup that I didn't link to before.


Arjan Smit on the outside- photo from Wesp
ShorttrackOnLine.info was updated with a report from the 16th Valtellina Trophy taking place in Bormio. Click here for results and here for very nice photos.


Valtellina Trophy- photo from Armando Trabucchi
Sk-Force: Here's one for you to check out; Sk-Force.