Sophie Muir continued her great Calgary form to drop over 1 second off her 1000m National record set in Heerenveen just last weekend. In the process, Sophie took out 1st place for the ladies 1000m and finally posted an Olympic qualifying time for this distance.
Daniel Greig has also begun to hit his straps skating a season best 1:11.76 for the 1000m, and a second best ever time for this distance. This placed him 9th in the group of 74 men.
Daniel Yeow skated a personal best 1:20.26 to finish in 35th, moving up 3 positions from Friday's skate. This time improved on his previous best by over a second.
Ben Southee had returned to Calgary due to illness but has recovered well and trained earlier today and is back on track for the Calgary World Cup starting on the 4th of December.
Josh is due to skate the 10k in Hamar later today Aussie time (along with Shane Dobbin).
Shane Dobbin is sitting 13th in the overall rankings and on last news, was unsure whether he would skate A or B division.
Here is an interview with Shane about his Olympic prospects, and also some good comments by Chad Hedrick.
I managed to meet Shane, Roy and Tanya in Heerenveen and they are nice, down to earth people and I encourage the Aussie supporter group to follow Shane and cheer for him when they watch him in Vancouver, obviously along with cheering on the Aussies!
Sunday, November 22, 2009
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