Canadian Short Track Team Trials- Day 2- 500's

Canadian Short Track Team Trials- Day 2- 500's: I'm in Montreal right now. I was lucky enough to watch the hot short track action today at Maurice Richard Arena- Canadian short track speed skaters were trying to qualify for the national team. I was told that the rankings for the national team will consist of 30% points from the last trials in Calgary and 70% of the points from this weekend's trials.

The 1500-meter distance took place yesterday. Today's racing action featured 500-meter races, and the 1000-meter races will take place tomorrow. Speed Skating Canada has a couple of articles; Without Surprise, Roberge and Hamelin Win the 500m at the Canadian Open Championships and Kalyna Roberge and Marc-André Monette Crowned Canadian Champions in the 1500m.

You can find additional coverage thanks to Ohno Zone- check out Canadian trials results, day 2 and Canadian trials results, day 1.


Charles Hamelin- photo from Ohno Zone
There are tons and tons of other skating news items that I want to link up to and I've got a ton of video which will make a super good presentation once I have time to put it all together. I'll link up to all sorts of articles, results, and photos from other competitions that are taking place this weekend later. Until the next update, enjoy the pictures I took.



2008-01-19 Montreal Canadian Short Track Speed Skating Team Trials- 104 photos


And the girls are ready to start

500-meters

Steve Robillard (in 3rd) make an amazing pass a couple of laps after I took this picture- and he qualified for the semi-final and eventually made his way to a 4th place finish in the A final

Mathieu Turcotte went down in one of his 500's

Cori Rasmussen leading one of his 500's

500-meter

Pete Dykstra was amongst the fans and supporters taking in the racing action

Olivier Jean and I- he's back skating after a nasty fall last August where his blade ended up cutting through his heel to the bone... eek

I played a game of FRENCH scrabble vs Brian Jalbert and his partner Maude as well as Morgane Echardour- they all thought that my 'inferior' Ontario-French would keep me from being a threat in the game, but I am please to report that I easily won the game!