Yang Yang (A) has dominated short track speed skating for many years. She won 6 world championship in a row (1997-2002) and get 2 olympic gold and one silver in Salt Lake City Olympics. From Italy, she answered our questions and talk us about her career and the sport of speed skating in China.

This is the second part of the interview with long track speed skater Jean-René Bélanger. In this part, he speaks to us more about the need of a covered rink in Quebec. He also reveals us the most beautiful place where he has skated: Collalbo, one of the rare outside oval rink on the world cup.

Top of its 1.94m, Jean-René Bélanger is one of the tallest if not the tallest speed skater. Jean-René speaks to us about his season and his training program from the last 12 months. The second part will talk about the need of an oval in eastern Canada.

This coming 13 February, Vincent Labrie of Quebec, will take part in his first Olympic Games in the 500m. He explains to us how he worked with psychologists to improve his mental focus these two last years to finished 4th on the 500m just behind Jeremy Wotherspoon, Mike Ireland and Brock Miron, a performance that qualified him  for the games.

This is the second part of the interview with national coach Arno Hoogveld. He talk about the program that leads their athletes to Torino games and the place of cycling in speed skating. Arno Hoogveld is very confident in his athletes and in all the canadian athletes going to this game. Canada is definitely a country of winter sport!