Aaron In Ottawa, Roller Derby & Gillian Clarke On CBC, KNSC #13 Vids, Euro LT, More LT Results, World Jr ST, Road Rash Joins NROC, Blog News, ING SSC

Aaron In Ottawa: Aaron Arndt made a trip from Brampton to Ottawa to skate with the Ottawa skaters- here are his thought before the practice- In Ottawa- you can read about the practice in Road Rash Chronicles' entry called Back to the grind..


Aaron Arndt leading the way- photo from Road Rash Chronicles
Roller Derby & Gillian Clarke On CBC: Gillian 'G-Force' Clarke and the Roller Derby team, Chicks Ahoy, which she plays for were featured on CBC News Sunday last weekend.


'Can Chicks Ahoy beat the Gore Gore Roller Girls? With roller derby making a comeback, we take you to the championship of North America's biggest league'- photo and caption from CBC
KNSC #13 Vids: You can find videos of this weekend's KNSB #13- click here for the women's video and click here for the men's video. Here's the link to the women's Powerplay.nl marathon race. You can also use the controls below-

Euro LT: Speed Skating World Online Magazine has some reports from the European long track championships- celebration, 10k men, 5k women, 1500m men, and 1500m women.

Click here to find results and you can dig around this special KNSB site for photos, stories, and results.


Women's 1500-meter podium- photo from KNSB

Havard Bokko (Norway) and Sven Kramer (Netherlands) finished 1-2 in the 10k- photo from KNSB
More LT Results: Here are a few more long track results from this past weekend;
-American Cup 3
-North America and Oceania Regional Qualifier 2008
-Swiss Junior Allround Championship
-Japanese Junior Allround Championships
-Japanese Junior Sprint Championships

Here is another link to the results from the North America and Oceania Regional Qualifier 2008; click here.

World Jr ST: Speed Skating Canada has a few articles about the junior short track world championships- see Blais-Dufour and St-Gelais win medals at short track speed skating world juniors, Three top-six Canadian finishes in 1,500 finals at short track speed skating world juniors, and Canada concludes short track world juniors with two more medals.

You can also find coverage on Ohno Zone- check out Junior World Short Track Championships, day 1, Junior World Short Track Championships, day 2, and Junior World Short Track Championships, day 3.

You can find all the results that you want to find by clicking right here.
Road Rash Joins NROC: The Texas Road Rash has joined the National Roller Cup- see The Texas Road Rash Joins NROC for more.

Blog News: Here are a few blog items of interest;

Sigrid Ziegler's latest entry is called Another Anatomy Lesson- she talks about an injury that she suffered last Monday during practice.

Candy Wong's most recent entry is called Candy 1, Winter 0; she says '...We skated a grand total of 7km before the sky threatened to drizzle which turned to hail. But of course, the sky cleared up after I changed out of my skating gears...'.

The final blog is a new one; it's called Hope, Love, And Speedskates- looking forward for some good stuff coming from this one.

ING SSC: Speed Skating Canada is promoting a contest called the ING Speed Skating Challenge- see the latest article called The finish line is almost here. Tell us your story by January 18, 2008!.