This is the second part of the interview of Vladimir posted yesterday. He talked us more about his country and the situation of speed skating.

Directly from Bulgaria, Vladimir talked us about his career in short track speed skating. From the country of the famous Evgenia Radanova, he also approached the situation of the sport in Bulgaria which is pretty difficult because the country not support the sport as much as in the past years.

On January 4^th the long track team for Torino games is scheduled to be officially nominated at a news conference at the Olympic Oval. By then, Marilou Asselin, participating to the selections speaks to us a about his season and the chances of medals for the canadians at Torino.

The canadians launched a program called "Own the podium" This program identify athletes with transferable skills and support the athletes that are selected with the purpose of medaling at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. Peter Doucet tell us how he entered the program and what they have done so far.