The speed skating star from the Netherlands is a gold medalist, having won her best race, the 1000 meters, in an Olympic record time ... She's competing in the 1000-meter speed skating competition.
MILAN, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- Dutch skater Femke Kok won her first Olympic gold in the women's 500m speed skating on Sunday, setting a new Olympic record of 36.49 seconds ... Takagi finished in 37.27 seconds to secure her ninth Olympic medal ... Enditem .
Femke Kok has been utterly untouchable in the 500 meters of speed skating entering the 2026 Winter Olympics... Femke Kok is a 25-year old speed skater from the Netherlands ... She skated the 500 meters in 36.09 seconds.
The shortest race in Olympic speed skating offers no space to recover from hesitation ... the final corner and stopping the clock at 36.49 – marking the sixth Olympic speed skating record of these Games.
MILAN (AP) — Jordan Stolz is so preternaturally calm and apparently impervious to nerves that the two-time Olympic gold medalist's coach, Bob Corby, does occasionally wonder whether his star speedskating pupil might be a little too relaxed ... .