Canadian Olympic silver medalist Valerie Maltais of La Baie, Quebec has decided to make the switch from short track speed skating to long track speed skating.In an announcement made on Tuesday, Maltais becomes the second high performance Canadian speed skater Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalists Theoren Fleury of Oxbow, Saskatchewan and Cindy Klassen of Winnipeg, Manitoba were inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame on Friday in Red Deer, Alberta. Even though Fleury and Klassen were from outside Alberta, they Read more
Ted-Jan Bloemen of Calgary, Alberta has won Canada’s fourth gold medal at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang. Bloemen placed first in the men’s 10000m speed skating event and became the first Canadian to medal in the distance since Frank Read more
Ted-Jan Bloemen of Calgary, Alberta has won Canada’s third medal of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang on Sunday. Bloemen won the silver medal in the men’s 5000m speed skating event. Bloemen won the silver medal by the absolute smallest Read more
Ivanie Blondin of Ottawa, Ontario won a World Cup gold medal in the women’s 3000m in Erfurt, Germany on Sunday. It was the first World Cup win for Blondin of the 2017-18 season and first career win in the women’s Read more
Ted-Jan Bloemen of Calgary, Alberta set a World Record on Sunday in the men’s 5000m speed skating at a World Cup in Salt Lake City, Utah. Bloemen posted a gold medal winning time of 6:01.86 to beat the old world Read more
Alex Boisvert-Lacroix of Sherbrooke, Quebec won his first career individual World Cup speed skating event from the Olympic Oval in Calgary, Alberta on Sunday. It was also Boisvert-Lacroix’s fifth World Cup medal in the men’s 500m in his speed Read more
Ivanie Blondin of Ottawa, Ontario and Ted-Jan Bloemen of Calgary, Alberta each won World Cup speed skating silver medals in Stavanger, Norway on Sunday. Blondin won a silver medal in the women’s 5000m and Bloemen won the silver in the Read more
Marsha Hudey of White City, Saskatchewan has won a silver medal in a women’s 500m World Cup speed skating competition in Stavanger, Norway. For Hudey, it was her first World Cup individual medal in her speed skating career, according to Read more
Laurent Dubreuil of Levis, Quebec won a gold medal for Canada in the men’s 500m at a World Cup speed skating event in Heerenveen, Netherlands on Saturday. It highlighted an extremely successful weekend for Canadian speed skaters in Heerenveen because as Read more