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Four more golds for Dutch speed skaters at second World Cup in Heerenveen Sunday, 31 January 2021
Dutch skaters completed another golden weekend on the home ice of Heerenveen in the second round of the International Skating Union (ISU) Speed Skating World Cup.
On the same ice in the Thialf Arena
last week Dutch speed skaters won nine of the 12 gold medals on offer over the final two days of competition - but this time they settled for eight golds.
Femke Kok, winner of two golds in the last World Cup round on this ice, matched that feat as she won her second 500 metres race, clocking 37.333sec to finish ahead of three Russian rivals - Angelina Golikova, just 0.03sec adrift, Daria Kachanova, at 0.30, and Olga Fatkulina, at 0.34.
Career-threatening injury still providing priceless lessons for fastest man on ice Getty Images
In February 2022, Havard Lorentzen will go for his second Olympic gold medal at successive Games, potentially completing another step on an extraordinary mission, during which he has gone from being told he may never skate again to becoming the quickest speed skater on the planet. Intriguingly, the Norwegian is convinced the two threads are intrinsically entwined…
Havard Lorentzen sits in late 2020 as the reigning Olympic 500m speed skating champion, a World Sprint Championship gold medallist and a nine-time World Cup winner, but even now the 28-year-old believes none of it would have been possible without going through the toughest of times.