Loss of a GT Speed Skater, LT World Champs, ST World Cup, REL Articles, Blogs, World Inline Cup, Inline Planet Survey, Essent GP 2, Inline In The News
Loss of a GT Speed Skater: From Loss of a GT Speed Skater; 'Scott Storey 24 years old was killed in a head on collision Monday afternoon around 4pm, while riding his motorcycle. He was struck by a 19 year old young man that was driving while doing drugs and ran a stop sign. Scott started skating and competed in 95' with GT Speed in Columbus and in Atlanta. He was still part of our team and practice with us to stay in shape. It is so sad that we now have to add Scott's name to a memorial plate that we have at the skate center for his Dad that passed away in December of 2000. Please take a moment to pray for Scott's young wife and his mother. GT Speed Coaches and 4 other skaters will carry his casket at his Funeral...'.
LT World Champs: The ISU Long Track World Championships are taking place in Berlin, Germany. Day 1 racing is over- see all the results here. Canadians picked up a couple of wins. As predicted, DESGphoto has posted a few albums from Saturday racing- see all distances, 500 men, 500 ladies, 5k men, 3k ladies, other images, and unknown faces.
Ladies' 500-meter podium- photo from DESGphoto
Canada's Steven Elm in the 5k- photo from DESGphoto
World LT Champs- photo from DESGphoto
Crowd at the World LT Champs- photo from DESGphoto
USA's Shani Davis on his way to a 2nd place finish in the 500-meter- photo from DESGphoto
Here are some links to the SSWOM coverage; 500 ladies, 500 men, 3k ladies, 5k men, and What's wrong with the ice?.
Speedskating-online posted an article earlier this week called Clear goal for Denny Morrison at upcoming World All-rounds. And guess what? Denny Morrison won the 500-meter world championship earlier today- see the results.
You should also be able to find some updates on the TVM site; click here for the TVM World Long Track Championships page.
ST World Cup: The ISU Samsung Short Track Speed Skating World Cup will enter its final day of competition tomorrow. Catch up on all the results here- looks like USA ladies came 2nd and 3rd in the 1500m. USA came 3rd and 4th in the men's 1000m and Canada's Charles Hamelin won the 500m.
Here is a Speed Skating Canada article; Hamelin brothers shine in qualifying at short track speed skating World Cup final. Hmm, you know what's funny? One of the Hamelin brothers recruited me in the Pirates vs. Ninjas Facebook game. I'm a ninja. A Speed Skate World ninja.
Flyin Brian has some coverage of the event; see SLC ST World Cup- in the video below, watch the Korean AND listen to the commentary. Hehehe, it's really good stuff!
Here are some Ohno Zone links; Day 1 observations from SusanG, Photos from SLC (if you want to go directly to the album, click here), and Salt Lake City day 1 press roundup.
Salt Lake City ISU Samsung Short Track Speed Skating World Cup- photo from
REL Articles: Roller En Ligne's site was down for a few days. Now it's back online and there's tons of articles and links for you to click through;
- Photos Course indoor Agen 2008- to go straight to the album, click here
- Indoor Agen report
- Indoor Agen video
- Article on Cado Motus 100/110mm frames
- an article with a video about direction of push
- Team X Tech France
- France Senior Gross Gerau team
- AM Wing SP+ 110mm 85A test
Indoor Agen - photo from Roller En Ligne
Blogs: Candy Wong is in Florida- she's been putting updates that make me drool; 73km In One Day and In Miami. The food looks way too good. I'm glad I'm not there. Actually, I wish I was there...
Flyin Brian's got an update called Age Group Long Track Nationals 2008 Lake Placid.
Road Rash Chronicles' latest entry is called Speed vs. Strategy.
World Inline Cup: The 2008 World Inline Cup team form and single registration is now online.
Find out what the deal is with the planning of this year's World Inline Cup and Swiss Inline Cup in World Cup Topics for 2008- in a recent post, Bill Begg wrote the bad stuff and also the NOW THE WARM & FUZZIES; 'Well some might think that things have been tough leading into the 2008 season I have to agree. But in spite off that 2008 will be the best contested event ever, In the mens & especially in the womens grade, lets just run the comb through where things are at.
1/ Management changeover, with no real experience in a sport specific Business, always going to be a tough assignment, at the best of times.
2/ Our long term Seoul Korean Sponsor Kia comming to the end of there sponsorship term., unfortunately between the game of Chess with management change arounds, no Focus could go on finding a new sponsor.
3/ With the European football cup in Switzerland, the security issues have made it very Difficult for Iguana to work around, with many date alterations required.
4/ Then we had the ill-advised wisdom of trying at the last minute to change the mens team numbers to 4 instead of 5,
lucky they listened to slow down the groundswell of discontent from many team owners & skaters alike.
5/ Now we only have the problem of a finalized program, as they still strive for possible other Asian events, utilizing the same trip & have to fine tune the Swiss Calender
NOW THE WARM & FUZZIES.
a) More teams than ever, not National back up teams,but real
contendors.
b) Holland & Italy on Board, as new venues a real big factor.
c) Live Internet TV coverage of Europe WIC events with
Podium as a partner.
d) The Best ever Sports Insider Magazine, to show off our
Sport to others.
I believe the best racing ever,lets hope we can slip a few primes in to liven up the action'
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Essent GP #2: The Essent Grand Prix #2 took place earlier today in Lipno (Tsjechie)- you can find all the results here.
Inline In The News: The website Inline Skating In The News has a couple of new recent link to news articles;
- Cheyenne Chapter of Rocky Mountain Racing Wins 29 Trophies At Wichita Speed Skating Classic
- Speed skating: Denton's Malone looks to finish strong
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