World Junior LT Champs, Heerenveen LT World Cup, Roller En Ligne, Mundo & Cartagena, Hughes' Crazy Week, SB's SLC World Cup Pics, Vids, MISC Links

World Junior LT Champs: The World Junior Long Track Championships are taking place this weekend in Changchun, China. Click here for women's cumulative results and here for men's cumulative results. You can also use this page to view the results. You'll also be able to view the results on SpeedSkatingResults.com. I think that between those 3 sites, you're bound to find something you're looking for.

Canada's Jordan Belchos placed 4th in the 3000-meters and USA's is sitting in 9th after the first day of competition.

Click here for KNSB's page which has some pretty good information on the championships.

Heerenveen LT World Cup: Just in case it's not a busy enough weekend in long track speed skating, ISU's long track world cup finale is taking place in Heerenveen- click here for the results so far. The men's 1500-meter A results have flags that looks alike between positions #4 and #10- they're either from the Netherlands or from Russia. Check out Germany's Jenny Wolf's nearly perfect record in the 500-meter world cup standings.

Good news for photos seekers; Meijco.nl has photos- check them out!


Vincent Labrie's skate- photo from Meijco.nl

Podium photo with podium Denny Morrison, Shani Davis, and Enrico Fabris- photo from Meijco.nl

Ok, talk about perfect timing... 'de Noorse starter Jan Wiggo Oxholm liet de atleten wel erg lang wachten - met als gevolg veel valse starts'- photo & caption from Meijco.nl
Even better news SSW fans; DESG is also putting photos up! Yea! Check them out from day 1;

- All distances
- 500m men
- 500m ladies
- 3000m ladies
- All other images
- Unknown faces


China's Shuang Zhang- photo from DESG

Mike Ireland- photo from DESG

Dmitrij Lobkov- photo from DESG

Hiroyasu Shimizu- photo from DESG
Speed Skating World Online Magazine is covering the event. Here are a few entries; Shani Davis won't skate the 5000m, dq Valkenburg, H'veen World Cup Final 1500m men, H'veen World Cup Final 3000m ladies, H'veen World Cup Final 500m men (1), and H'veen World Cup Final 500m ladies (1).

Roller En Ligne: Roller En Ligne's got some good stuff for us all to check out- Bont frame information, a Diego Rosero interview, and tips (with video) on the skate recovery.

FICHE A3 : retour de la jambe / phase pendulaire
Uploaded by teamrollerenligne

Mundo & Cartagena: Mundo Patin's website was recently redesigned. Looks pretty good.

Here's an article on the upcoming Cartagena competition; Las pruebas de eliminación cierran las jornadas de Circuito y empiezan con la Pista. I don't think I need to inform you that it's written in Spanish...

Click here for results from the Copa Internacional Salvemos todos a Bolívar competition.

Here are a couple of articles & reports; En un gran final, Alexandra Vivas se quedó con el triunfo en Cartagena and La magia del patinaje ya se vive en Cartagena de Indias.

Click here for photos of the event.


Racing in Cartagena- photo from Patin Carrera
Hughes' Crazy Week: Here are a couple of entries from Canadian long track speed skater Clara Hughes' website; 2 YEARS, 2 DAYS UNTIL VANCOUVER- ON THE ROAD TO THE 2010 OLYMPICS and THE CRAZIEST WEEK OF MY SPORTING LIFE. Interesting reading material.

SB's SLC World Cup Pics: I don't remember if I linked to SB's pictures from the Salt Lake City ISU Samsung Short Track World Cup. The pictures are quite nice.


Salt Lake City ISU Samsung Short Track World Cup- photo from sb
Vids: Here are a couple of videos for your enjoyment- mundial de patinaje venezuela (2003 worlds 200-meter sprints)- check out the leg speed! Also check out the massive crash in caida en el mundial de cali- I was standing in the corner where it took place. Check out the slow-motion replays too... eek.

Click play below to check out the videos.




The race continued and the refs tried to control the situation while medics helped the injured and fallen skaters
MISC Links: Let's get ya started with a blog- it will cover two skaters' quest to compelte the Mans 24 hour skate- DUO Dément.

This link comes out of France- RollerSisters.

Here's another one for you; Skate-Connection.

This is from Denmark; Skatenews.dk.

Final link for today; Stadler Racing Team.