Topic: Sven Kramer

Olympic speedskating champion Sven Kramer ruled out for entire season with thigh injuryOlympic speedskating champion Sven Kramer says a right thigh injury has ruled him out of competition for the entire season.Kramer returned to the Netherlands from a training camp in ...
Speed skating is an event in which competitors race each other over a certain distance on ice skates. The 2010 Vancouver Winter Games , featured the Olympic Speed Skaing Men's 5,000m at the Richmond Olympic Oval on February 13 , Dutch favourite ...

Sven Kramer

Sven Kramer is a 6'1, 177 lb, speed skater from the Netherlands. In 2006, he represented the Netherlands at the Torino Olympics , taking the silver medal in the 5000m, and took the bronze along with his teammates in the team pursuit ...
Dutch speed skater, Sven Kramer, was denied his gold medel in the 10,000 meter race after a DQ, thanks to his coach, Gerard Kemkers.
As I watched the Olympics this afternoon I jotted down some things. 108-meters is a long jump. It?s way over 300-feet. Say what you want but this is not a normal hill. Women?s Biathlon ? Anastazia Kuzmina, from Slovakia, won the ...
While that is important I want to write most of the words about Joannie Rochette. Scoring more points in the short program than she had ever done before, Rochette skated to a third place spot in the event. Joannie Rochette knows her ...

Games defined by tragedy as much as triumph

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Shaun White defied gravity, Joannie Rochette choked back tears of grief and Petra Majdic ignored medical advice to haul her battered body to the podium."I have no words to describe how we feel," said International Olympic Committee (IOC) president ...

Six memorable moments from the Vancouver Games

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Six memorable moments from the Vancouver Olympics.- - - Petra Majdic (Cross-country skiing) If gold medals were handed out for bravery then Slovenian cross country skier Petra Majdic would have been a runaway winner of the award in Vancouver.He took the ...

Blunders and belly slides at oval

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Blunders, malfunctions and a belly-sliding finish marked competition at Richmond Olympic Oval but a slender marvel from the Czech Republic emerged as queen of speedskating in the Vancouver Games.While Sven Kramer of the Netherlands and American Shani Davis failed ...
Canadian men win team pursuit, German women repeat, Hedrick settles for silver in final race Chad Hedrick was yukking it up outside the Olympic oval, savoring one last medal in one more event before he gets started on the rest of his ...