Junior Country Match and Junior World Championships commented by Quebec's juniors
Last 4-5 March, juniors of six countries had a special meet at Junior Coutry Match, a competition of preparation to the junior world's championship few days later. Here are the comments of three athletes coming from Québec within the canadian team; Philippe Riopel, Justine L'Heureux and Marie-Pier Gervais-Moreau.
Results Ladies' world allround championships long track speed skating
Cindy Klassen pursued his Olympics domination on the world allround championships winning every distances. Claudia Pechstein of Germany and Kristina Groves of Canada complete the podium.
Results Men's world allround championships 2006 long track speed skating
Shani Davis won the world allround championships. This championships has been marked by the world records set in the 1 500m by american Shani Davis (1:42.68) and at the 10 000m by Sven Kramer of Netherlands (12:51.60). Chad Hedrick who was in good position to win has been disqualified in the 10 000m because of a bad change from inner to outer lane.
TURIN, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Jin Sun-yu of South Korea won the
women's short track skating 1,000-metre gold medal at the Turin
Winter Olympics on Saturday.
Wang Meng of China won the silver and Yang Yang also of
China took the bronze.