Erin jackson image – Credit: (Imagn) The 2022 Winter Olympic speed skating competition involved the most historically successful team maintaining prominence while new faces grabbed a hold of the sport. The Netherlands remained the dominant country with 12 medals including ...
Speed skater Sven Kramer – Credit: (Imagn) Dutch speed skater Sven Kramer made a push to the front of the group in Saturday’s mass start final. His lumbering 6-foot-2 strides helped him breakaway for two laps before he sunk back ...
Claudia Pechstein – Credit: (Imagn) Three days before her 50th birthday, the Winter Olympics’ oldest female competitor Claudia Pechstein did not add to her decades-long medal haul at Saturday’s speed skating mass start race – but had a lovely surprise waiting anyway. The ...
Claudia Pechstein – Credit: (Imagn) Three days before her 50th birthday, the Winter Olympics’ oldest female competitor, Claudia Pechstein, didn’t add to her decades-long medal haul during Saturday’s speed skating mass start, but had a lovely surprise waiting anyway. The German finished a respectable ninth, ...
Mikaela Shiffrin reacts after her DNF in the slalom portion of the women's combined – Credit: Getty Images Each day of the 2022 Winter Games, NBC Olympics will run down every sport in action, highlighting the biggest athletes and marquee ...
Nick Baumgartner of Team USA celebrates after victory on Day 8 of the 2022 Winter Olympics – Credit: (Photo by Ian MacNico/Getty Images) There’s been no shortage of programs catering to middle-aged men over the last — say, when was ...
Snowboarder Shaun White of the Team USA poses for a portrait with American speed skater Maame Biney in 2018. – Credit: (Photo by Marianna Massey/Getty Images) The beauty of languages means any name can be completely pedestrian to one ear ...
Speed skater Irene Schouten – Credit: (Imagn) Irene Schouten of the Netherlands secured her second gold medal of the 2022 Winter Olympics by winning the women’s 5000m speed skating competition on Thursday. She did so by setting the Olympic record ...
Speed skater Claudia Pechstein of Team Germany reacts after the Women's 3000m – Credit: (Photo by Wang Xianmin/CHINASPORTS/VCG via Getty Images) Claudia Pechstein makes history German speed skater Claudia Pechstein made Olympic history twice when she competed in the women’s 3000m, but ...