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	NY SPORTS ON LINE - SPEEDSKATING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The 48-year-old speedskating champion had invited me to participate in one of the Flushing Meadow Speedskating Club's twice-weekly training sessions at the World's Fair ice skating rink in Queens.
		Moore was one of seven skaters from the Flushing club who competed at the third annual Masters International Speedskating Championships Feb. 19 and 20 in Milwaukee, and she came home with yet another first-place finish.
		Five years ago, he was inline speedskating in Central Park, and found there was a natural progression to the ice.
	www.nysol.com /speedskating.html (1462 words)

	United States Olympic Committee - Look for Hedrick, Davis, Raney in 2010
		For U.S. speedskating's future, the best news came after the 10,000, when Hedrick quit hedging about his future and said he would remain in the sport through the 2010 Vancouver Games.
		Her seventh-place finish was the best by any U.S. woman in long-track in Torino, and at 25 she's considered young for a distance skater.
		The other two also were long-track speedskaters: Eric Heiden with five golds in 1980 at Lake Placid and Sheila Young with a gold, silver and bronze in 1976 at Innsbruck.
	www.olympic-usa.org /11478_44759.htm (640 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Speedskaters Live the High Life in Oxygen-Thin Rooms
		U.S. Speedskating has converted a floor of a dormitory at its Milwaukee training center to "mountain rooms," oxygen-deprived chambers designed to build endurance while athletes sleep and go about their daily routines.
		U.S. Speedskating Executive Director Katie Marquard said the organization sought to replicate the high-altitude conditions most of its elite athletes are accustomed to in Park City, Utah, where many live, when it sought funds from the USOC for the project.
		Elite U.S. speedskaters are expected to spend two to three months annually in the dormitories, according to Rob Multerer, the director of marketing for the Pettit National Ice Center.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A64840-2004Dec14?language=printer (970 words)

	GMToday Sports
		John Findling, a co-editor of the Historical Dictionary of the Modern Olympic Movement, said Wisconsin's reputation for speedskating was cemented with Madison-native Eric Heiden's unprecedented five gold medals in the 1980 Olympics.
		He acknowledges he might have some influence over the newer speedskaters but said the Pettit is a major reason Milwaukee became a mecca for speedskating.
		Witty won a gold in the 1000 meters in 2002, and in 1998 won a silver in the 1000 meters and a bronze in 1500 meters.
	www.gmtoday.com /news/sports/Olympics_2006/topstory011.asp (775 words)

	Mogema - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Widely regarded in the industry as a world leader in specialised speedskating equipment, Mogema is the innovator of some of the sport's most successful technologies including Dual Box inline skating frames and NSX ice blades.
		The 't Harde-based Mogema metalworking group in the Netherlands was the first to produce an inline speedskating frame in 1985, when two employees – both speedskaters – began using company technologies in their own time to produce a specialised speedskating frame.
		The frame they produced for themselves was so quickly in demand among their friends and fellow speedskaters that production expanded exponentially, with an agreement being made soon after for Mogema metalworking group to produce quantities of the frame for sale by the Stouwdamsport skate shop in nearby Oldebroek.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mogema (313 words)

	ESPN.com - Speedskaters take home 11 medals
		Ditto for the rest of the U.S. speedskating team, which had an Olympics to remember in Salt Lake City.
		That's one more than U.S. Speedskating president Fred Benjamin predicted before the games, a seemingly outrageous projection that turned out to be too conservative.
		Witty, who'll be 30 when the next Winter Olympics rolls around, said there could be more speedskating in her future.
	sports.espn.go.com /oly/winter02/speed/news?id=1340595 (860 words)

	Neo Speed Skating News Archives
		Speedskaters from the Ohio Speedskating Tour succombed to the perrenial favorites of Michigan and the Michigan Wolverines.
		Speedskating at the current moment is only an Olympic sport during the Winter Olympics leaving those speedskating fans only something to watch every four years.
		As is the purpose of the Ohio Speedskating Tour, the OST successfully qualified dozens of Ohio speedskaters for the U.S. National Championships.
	www.neospeedskating.com /news/arc5-2004.php (3804 words)

	deseretnews.com \| U.S. speedskaters compete
		KEARNS — Several on-the-rise long-track speedskaters and one two-time Olympian competed at the Utah Olympic Oval on Saturday, the first day of the weekend-long American Cup competition.
		Manganello, hoping to follow in the footsteps of former inline skaters-turned-Olympic speedskating champions Chad Hedrick and Derek Parra, switched over from inline skating to speedskating four years ago at age 13.
		Manganello's coach, Scott Koons, considers her to be one of his hardest workers and thinks she has the potential for a bright speedskating future.
	www.deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,650212038,00.html (587 words)

	WLV - Speedskaters rise to the occasion
		The importance of athlete specific scientific research is reflected in the results of a long term project with some British hopefuls who are preparing for the 2006 Winter Olympics.
		As part of the meticulous planning that goes into an Olympic cycle, Britain's short-track speedskaters are making sure their preparation camps are as effective as possible, with specialist support from the EIS, the BOA and the Olympic Medical Institute.
		To combat the problem, a 'living high and training low' programme was been introduced, where athletes live at a certain altitude, descend to a lower altitude only for interval and speed training and then rest and recover at high altitude.
	asp.wlv.ac.uk /Level6.asp?UserType=11&Level6=2274 (438 words)

	Celizic: Despite drama, U.S. speedskaters shine - Speedskating, short track - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Of the 25 American medals won, 14 were produced by big oval speedskating and snowboarding.
		So it’s a little hard to put the words “speedskating” and “disappointment” in the same sentence, especially when there are so many other American teams that left so many expectations unfulfilled.
		It’s always in order to hope for more before the games begin, but once the venue shuts down, the only fair way to judge a squad is by what it did, not by what someone else decided it was supposed to do.
	rss.msnbc.msn.com /id/11546521 (1007 words)

	Zen and the Art of Speedskating » Ski Sprinting
		Just as some ice speedskaters skate on inlines in the off-season, XC-skiers use wheels to accurately simulate their sport before the snow flies.
		Actually getting air helps them go faster, as the snow is not creating slowing friction when they are up, and they “fall” into the poles the same way speedskaters use their hips to “fall” into each stroke.
		Ice speedskaters tend to be scary imbalanced, to the extent that our left legs even grow slightly bigger than the right, since we just turn left.
	andrewlove.org /blog/?p=324 (487 words)

	Speedskaters produce two medals for U.S. - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Erasing his own agony from Nagano, FitzRandolph won the 500 meters Tuesday in a stirring speedskating duel with defending Olympic gold medalist Hiroyasu Shimizu.
		He gave the United States its first speedskating victory of the Salt Lake City Games, and it came with an unexpected bonus -- unheralded teammate Kip Carpenter took the bronze.
		The speedskating squad, which has never won more than eight medals, leads traditional powers the Netherlands and Germany, which have two apiece.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_17168.html (967 words)

	CANOE -- SLAM! Sports - Columnists - Gross: Plenty of skaters, nowhere to train
		In sports, our most successful "miners" have been the speedskaters, who have taken over as the clear No.1 source of Olympic gold, silver and bronze for Canada.
		At any rate, it's a shocking state of affairs that our governments don't give a damn about elite amateur sports facilities, but just happen to be around for photo ops when our athletes win gold, silver or bronze medals in the Olympics or world championships.
		Our speedskating club, the Kawartha Quarks, is focused not only on our elite athletes, but is also community-based.
	slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Columnists/Gross/2005/11/27/1326241.html (711 words)

	Young and ambitious: Canadian speedskaters looking forward to Vancouver 2010 - Speed-Skating.net - your news in all ...
		Also, a friend of my parents was starting a speedskating club.” Until the 2002-2003 season he focused both on short track and long track, after which he decided to concentrate on long track.
		Back then I also played other sports, like swimming, soccer, and baseball.» Despite a very promising start of his speedskating career with the junior world title allround in 2004, this career almost came to an end before it had really started when he was diagnosed with a heart condition during a regular medical check up.
		Like the American people, Canadians tend to forget about speedskating when the Olympics are over, but with the good results of the Canadian team in Turin and the next Olympics being in Vancouver, there’s a chance the media and the audience will stay interested in the sport.
	www.speed-skating.net /eng/article-193.html (2016 words)

	NPR : Social Activism Off the Ice for Speedskaters
		Joey Cheek of the U.S. on his way to winning the Olymic gold medal in the 500-meter men's speedskating competition in Turin, Feb. 13, 2006.
		February 14, 2006 · When American speedskater Joey Cheek won the 500-meter race at the Olympics on Monday, he used the opportunity to make a statement.
		Cheek announced he was donating his $25,000 gold medal award from the United States Olympic Committee to support child refugees who have fled the bloodshed in Sudan's Darfur region.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5206011 (414 words)

	ksl.com - Utah's Online Source for Local News & Information World's Best Speedskaters Competing in Utah
		This is a critical time for American athletes trying to win a spot on the 2006 Olympic team, and this weekend the best speed skaters in the world are gathered in Salt Lake City to begin that quest for Torino.
		US speedskaters won more medals in 2002 than any other sport discipline --- 11 medals.
		Everyone of the American Medal winners is returning this season for another shot at gold, including people like Derek Parra, Jennifer Rodriguez and Casey FitzRandolph, and they are hoping Salt Lakers will come cheer them on as they did in 2002.
	www.ksl.com /?nid=148&sid=129556 (312 words)

	Speedskaters compete - Sports
		MILWAUKEE - When Chad Hedrick and Shani Davis went to the starting line for the men's 10,000 meters, the final race of the U.S. Single-Distance Championships, there was absolutely nothing at stake.
		Both long-track speedskaters were pre-qualified for the U.S. World Cup team.
		Monday and there were fewer than 50 spectators in the stands at the Pettit National Ice Center.
	www.dailycollegian.com /news/2005/10/25/Sports/Speedskaters.Compete-1560664.shtml (621 words)

	U.S. Speedskaters Hope To Carry Win Into Weekend -- 2002 Winter Olympic News from KSL
		U.S. Speedskaters had their best results in five years at last weekend's World Cup in Calgary.
		Witty had hoped to be the first American woman to medal in both the summer and winter games -- she barely missed that goal, taking 5th.
		Now she is back to her first love, speedskating, and doing great.
	2002.ksl.com /news-3317i.php?p=1 (471 words)

	Tough going: Speedskaters can't break ice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Casey FitzRandolph did it while finishing sixth in the 500, while Jennifer Rodriguez did it on the way to a fourth at 3,000 meters.
		This is not the kind of accomplishment that sends the average American sports fan running into the street waving his flag, but then the average American sports fan doesn't pay much attention to speedskating except during the Olympics.
		If he did, he'd know that the U.S. skaters are doing very well, indeed, in distances they're not known to dominate except when Bonnie Blair is skating.
	www2.jsonline.com /sports/oly98/speed21298.stm (650 words)

	Russian speedskating league. English pages. Inline speedskaters Relay race in Saint-Petersburg
		The Opening of Inline Speedskating Season in Russia starts from competitions in Saint-Petersburg.
		Mikhail Kochetkov from Saint Petersburg Track and Field Federation, Rollersport Federation, Russia League of Speedskating and Team «Omega».
		In case of using any text, audio, photo or other kinds of materials it is necessary to mention "Speedskater.Ru" and "Russian Speedskating League".
	speedskater.ru /art.php?id=107 (294 words)

	kyw.com - American Speedskaters Ready To Rock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Chad Hedrick, a big-talking Texan who was gambling in Las Vegas four years ago, is a relative newcomer to the sport's traditional format of long track.
		The speedskating team won 11 medals at the 2002 Winter Games, with the long track skaters earning eight and the short track squad three.
		Inspired, Hedrick baled out of his native Texas and a lucrative career as a world champion inline skater to train with the national speedskating team in Utah.
	cbs3.com /olympics/olympics_story_033154859.html (1005 words)

	United States Olympic Committee Honors Speedskaters Witty and Parra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		On the men's side, long track speedskater Derek Parra (Orlando, Fla.) garnered the Male Athlete of the Month award due to his incredible Olympic performances.
		He won the first speedskating medal for the U.S. with an upset silver medal in the men's 5000-meters.
		The only person ever to skate to a sub 1:44 in the history of speedskating, Parra's gold medal was the first medal for the U.S. in this event since Eric Flaim's silver in 1988.
	www.usspeedskating.org /releases/031202AOM.html (952 words)

	Tucsonan's nephew one of Canada's speedskaters \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		Connection: Nephew Jason Parker is a silver medalist for Canada in speedskating.
		Finally: After speedskating for close to 20 years, as well as an Olympic alternate for the games in Salt Lake City, Parker, 30, planned to retire after the 2006 Olympics.
		The norm: Parker began speedskating around age 11, before going to the University of Calgary and making the Canadian national team.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/117224 (416 words)

	U.S. speedskaters foresee fruitful stay \| Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
		Ohno, who won gold in the 1,500-meter race and silver in the 1,000 at Salt Lake 2002, is one of the most recognizable names the United States has to offer.
		By the time the 2006 Winter Olympics are over, though, Ohno's teammates on the U.S. short-track squad and the Chad Hedrick-led long-track speedskating contingent could produce the highest percentage of American medals.
		The United States combined for 34 medals at the 2002 Games, and Hedrick expects the speedskating group to help push the Americans toward that mark in Turin.
	www.chron.com /disp/story.mpl/sports/oly/3646532.html (966 words)

	USATODAY.com - U.S. speedskaters making ageless quest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		MARQUETTE, Mich. — Hyo-Jung Kim was born the year after Amy Peterson first made the U.S. short-track speedskating team, in 1987.
		Peterson, who won an individual and a relay bronze at the 1994 Olympics and a relay silver at the '92 Games, is the symbol of where it has been.
		The two skaters, U.S. Speedskating President Andy Gabel says, '"'have shown the rest of the girls they can compete with the rest of the world."
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/winter/2005-12-14-us-speedskaters-young-old_x.htm (683 words)

	Other events: Canadian speedskaters complete haul \| Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
		Using a finishing kick honed from her days as a world-class cyclist, Hughes won the women's 5,000 meters Saturday, and Klassen took third, adding to impressive medals totals for them and their team.
		Canada, meanwhile, won nine medals in speedskating, eight by the women.
		Klassen led the way, but she didn't even pick up speedskating until being cut from the national hockey team before the 1998 Nagano Games.
	www.chron.com /disp/story.mpl/sports/oly/3686186.html (832 words)

	GE - Olympic Games
		The research team will compare the heart performance of the speedskaters with that of long-distance athletes such as marathoners and rowers, as well as patients with heart disease.
		Picard and Wood to explore new therapies for people with heart disease, as well as those recovering from heart attacks or heart surgeries.
		Apolo Anton Ohno, 2002 Olympic Speedskating Gold Medalist in the 1,500m and Silver Medalist in the 1,000m, and Angela Ruggiero, U.S. Women's Ice Hockey team 1998 Olympic Gold Medalist and 2002 Olympic Silver Medalist, are serving as spokesathletes for the cardiac and musculoskeletal research studies, respectively.
	www.ge.com /olympicgames/news_healthcare.html (1041 words)

	Speedskating Santa Barbara Sponsor Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A number of Ice speedskaters use an agency to represent them.
		So while an inline speedskater may have trouble getting an established agent to represent them now the basic techniques are available for you to represent yourself.
		Sponsors are interested in athletes with a positive image and who can command media attention so their products or services can gain exposure to the public.
	home1.gte.net /pjbemail/Sponsor.html (264 words)

	U.S. long—track speedskaters eager for medals - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		U.S. long—track speedskaters eager for medals - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		The compelling storylines behind U.S. Speedskating's lineup of long-track skaters are as plentiful as the number of medals the team expects to win in the 2002 Winter Olympics.
		A young, unashamedly confident group with thoughts of going for the gold.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,70000080,00.html (455 words)

	ContraCostaTimes.com \| 02/23/2006 \| Speedskaters can finally shake on it
		Shani Davis and Chad Hedrick finally shook hands Wednesday, accepted their medals and insisted they're ready to move on from the "soap opera."
		The feuding, not-feuding American speedskaters said far too much has been made of their personal rivalry at the Turin Games.
		But they stopped short of saying they settled anything with a handshake during the ceremony a day after both won medals in the men's 1,500 meters.
	www.contracostatimes.com /mld/cctimes/sports/13941408.htm (686 words)

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