by admin | Mar 20, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Kristen Santos-Griswold won a medal in all five events, including her first world title, as the U.S. women’s short track team had their best world championships since the sport was added to the Olympic medal program. Santos-Griswold, 29, won the 1000m, which had to be...
by admin | Feb 21, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Kristen Santos-Griswold earned her first World Cup 1500m win on Saturday to join Apolo Ohno as the only U.S. short track speed skaters to win in all three distances in the circuit’s history. Santos-Griswold, 29, goes into next month’s world championships riding...
by admin | Dec 12, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Kristen Santos-Griswold became the first U.S. female short track speed skater to win a World Cup 500m, prevailing in Beijing on Saturday. Then on Sunday, Santos-Griswold won the 1000m in a U.S. one-two with Corinne Stoddard for her third race victory this season and...
by admin | May 17, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Skate Mania isn’t much different than it was two decades ago when Erin Jackson first walked in. The sprawling wooden floor beneath fluorescent lights; the smell of brown leather roller skates; the snack bar; and the same teenage dreams inside four walls of painted...
by admin | May 11, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Carlijn Achtereekte, the 2018 Olympic 3000m speed skating champion for the Netherlands, has switched sports to road cycling. ‘I’m done with skating, but I am not yet done with top sport,” the 32-year-old Achtereekte said, according to her new team, Jumbo-Visma, which...
by admin | Feb 20, 2022 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
👍 This week our highlight goes to Suzanne Schulting who became the first woman to win 4 short track medals in a single Olympics. 👎 This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to the Russian figure skating coaches and how they treated their athletes...
by admin | Feb 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
New Zealand’s Zoi Sadowski-Synnott had just come up short in her bid for the gold medal in the Olympic women’s snowboard big air contest, but she didn’t even release her boots from her board before diving into a bear hug with winner Anna Gasser of Austria, who was...
by admin | Feb 17, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Suzanne Schulting from the Netherlands is the first woman to earn four short track speed skating medals at a single Olympic Games. Schulting collected the bronze in Wednesday’s 1500m final, her third individual podium finish of the 2022 Winter Olympics. The...
by admin | Feb 14, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Erin Jackson has ended the United States’ individual medal drought in speed skating, surging to a historic Olympic gold in the women’s 500m. The former roller derby skater from Ocala, Florida, who went off in the penultimate pair from the inside lane on Sunday night,...
by admin | Feb 8, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Claudia Pechstein became the oldest female Winter Olympian when she raced in the 3,000 metres speed skating at the Beijing Games on Saturday. Already the first woman to win five consecutive medals at the Winter Games, the 49-year-old Pechstein carried Germany’s...
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