MORE RECORDS!!!!
Jeremy Wotherspoon has had an incredible speedskating career, even before what he did today.
He won a silver medal in his first Olympics in 1998, and went on to win more world cup races than any other skater in the history of the sport. However the 2002 & 2006 games were, frankly, disasters for someone so talented. After Torino he took some time away from the sport.
According to the local “skate-tribe” gossip, he trained with the Canadian bobsled team for a while, then even got burned out on that & went to Norway.
I hear he worked 17 hour days on a fishing boat for several months, in a place where no one knew him, growing a huge beard in the process.
I don’t know what answers he found there, but I do know this- whatever he found helped him smash the 500m world record into quivering bits in his first race back.
In the process Jeremy skated the fastest 400m lap any human being has EVER done. A 24.44!! this WR could stand for a while, unless he breaks it again Sunday!
Watching the race through my camera viewfinder, I could literally see Jeremy surging with power on the straightaway, awesome!
Here is the video, enjoy the high quality quicktime, or click the Youtube below.
Enjoy.. a… few…. Images…. Too…
I’m… going… to…. Bed…. More…tomorrow…
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Come join alivenotdead.com, I’m the only speedskater on there. I’ve been trying to bug Apolo to get on, but alas I don’t know him personally so he probably never gets my emails. Oh well.
Anyways, my blog site is there for you to see. I haven’t skated since August, just started college. It’s so difficult right now, going through a rough period. Can’t get myself to get on the ice because of how much my body has lost strength……
for your worldcup happinesses
probably live stream form dutch sports- channel…
go to http://www.nos.nl/nos/voorpagina/
look under sport - right corner (it was on yesterday…) enjoy
The seemingly effortless riding or Jeremy is awesome! The grace and lach of motion in his upper body, the ease of him going through the corners… magnificent…
It’s just time before he will break the 34 second mark.
When I watched the video, I didn’t think he was really going to set a WR. If you look at his last 100M, he looks as if it is effortless. He even stands back up a few feet before the finish line. Unbelievable!
I better get to work on cutting 20 Seconds off my 500M…
Wow!! I want to skate like that… I’ll accept being slower, but like that…yeah!