Canada sprinters made sure that the reception team does not leave Calgary jump The World Cup without a medal, while the American star Jordan Stolz finished his turn of the hat in the Oval Olympic on Sunday.
Ottawa Ivanie BlondinCarolina Hiller by Prince George, British Columbia, and Beatrice Lamarche de Québec won gold in the Sprint women’s team.
“Very satisfactory,” said Blondin, who was fourth in the start of the mass of women less than an hour before the sprint. “It was a difficult weekend.
“I celebrated quite hard after that one. I was quite proud of our team and what we were able to do together. »»
Stolz de West Bend, WISC., Captured 500 meters gold to stay undefeated this season in 500, 1,000 and 1,500 meters.
The 20 -year -old player takes confidence in the Calgary World Cup who came after the holiday break in the next in his country of origin from Friday in Milwaukee.
“This removes the pressure,” said Stolz. “Usually when you come back to the race after a break, there is more pressure. Entering the second weekend is always a little quieter.
“I’m going to be quite comfortable on my original track. I will appreciate the crowd and I think the ice will be so fast.
After establishing track records in the 1,500 and 1,000 in Calgary, his time on Sunday of 33.85 seconds was two hundredths faster than Jenning de Boo from the Netherlands, which was also second in Stolz at 1K.
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Blondin, Hiller and Lamarche recovered the host team weekend when the Canadians were excluded from individual races medals in Calgary for the first time in 28 years of the World Cup race there.
The skaters of Canada and long -distance that came out of a high altitude training camp in UTAH less than a week earlier did not return with complete gas tanks.
Isabelle Weidemann of Ottawa, medalist in Olympic silver in 2022, finished fifth in the 5 km female and Graeme Fish of Moose Jaw, in Sask., Which was a bronze medalist in the world last year, finished fifth from the 10 masculine km.
“Our legs were simply not there this weekend,” said Blondin. “The goal is always the world championship, and we always try to remind us, but of course, would have liked to hit the podium this weekend, apart from the simple, but very satisfactory to do it with the girls.
“In the end, we aim for the worlds and all the training we do before that aims at worlds, so sometimes this affects the World Cup races and its advantage. I am not too worried at this stage.
The world championship is from March 13 to 16 in Hamar, Norway.
The Canada team won 10 medals, including a Sprint Gold team, at the 2024 World Championship in Calgary.
“We are close to a few events. This can turn around fairly quickly, “said Laurent Dubreuil de Levis, Quebec, who was fifth in the male 500.” It is like a reminder to take advantage of each medal, because they are very, very hard. “”
The 2021 world champion at 500 meters and silver medalist behind Stolz in the past two years, have been rusty on Sunday in his first round since November because of a groin injury.
Dubreuil, 32, was just under three tenths of Stolz second and less than a tenth of the podium.
“I still think I can win,” said the Canadian. “In the past two years, I was second behind Jordan at the world championships.
“I hope I will beat him several times (before) the end of my career and what a better time than the world championship this year or the Olympic Games next year.”
Although Team Pursuit is an Olympic event, Team Sprint is not.
Three skaters from each country begin the sprint of three laps and head against three skaters from another country on the track. A skater falls after each of the first two laps, letting a specialist in the intermediate distance strive from the finish line.
Dubreuil, Antoine Gelinas-Beaulieu and Anderson Johnson set a world record en route to the gold of the world championship in 2024. Dubreuil, Johnson and Connor Howe of Canmore, in Alberta, finished fourth on Sunday.
Femke Kok from the Netherlands was the 500-meter women’s winner. Timothy Loubineaud, in France, was the first in the start of the male mass and American Greta Myers prevailed in the female event.
Blondin, the Olympic silver medalist in 2022 in the start of the mass, found himself running after a breaking pack at the end of the 16 -laps of cat and mouse tactics.
“There was a breakaway that occurred and no one wanted to work on it,” she said. “I just tried to save the whole race and I hope that the pack would do it before we did, and that did not happen. I started to sprint early and I became solo. »»
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