Dutch skater Irene Schouten out-sprinted TeamCanada’s IvanieB to grab her third gold medal of the Olympic meet. Blondin, a 31-year-old from Ottawa, took the silver, just .06 seconds behind her long-time rival. Beijing2022 Olympics SpeedSkating 🥈
To get there, one has to navigate 16 laps around the 400-metre oval, with 15 other women all plotting and scheming to gather points during the mid-race sprints, or saving themselves for the all-out sprint at the end. If you don’t think you can skate all out with the world’s best at the end of a 6,400-metre race, you crank up the speed during the in-game sprints to gather points that will send you up the final standings. Valerie Maltais of La Baie Saguenay, Que.
BEIJING, CHINA – FEBRUARY 19: Silver Medallist Ivanie Blondin of Team Canada poses during the Women’s Mass Start Final flower ceremony on day fifteen of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at National Speed Skating Oval on February 19, 2022 in Beijing, China.The Netherland’s Irene Schouten and Canada’s Ivanie Blondin fight for gold in the final lap of the women’s mass start event at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics on Saturday, February 19, 2022.
That takes some guile and balance to get back on pace, and it might have taken too much energy, but she wasn’t at full speed, so who knows. And maybe she would have beaten Blondin regardless. No sense banging your head against that wall, not with a silver from this race and gold from the women’s team pursuit in hand.Article content
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