Sochi Day 11: Ladies 5000m
Is this what redemption looks like? Recap The final individual event in the competition did not disappoint. As expected Carien Kleibeuker, the marathon skater from the [more...]
Articles by Daniel Yeow
Sochi Special: Digging The Ice
Longer feature articles are in the works, but I thought I’d hammer out a quickie and leave the long one for the day off so you had more time to really take it all in at [more...]
Sochi Day 10: Mens 10,000m
Consistency is key, and these two have been at the top for a while now. Recap The added spectacle of the Olympics might be the only reason that I would voluntarily sit [more...]
Sochi Special: The Anatomy of a Race
We are now well past the halfway point in the speed skating competition, with only the one individual distance remaining for both ladies and men, then the team pursuits. True [more...]
Sochi Day 9: Ladies 1500m
Marathon skater Jorrit Bergsma presents a challenge to Sven’s supremacy. Recap Exciting as always, the Olympics continues to throw surprises at us, thick and fast. Olga [more...]
Sochi Special: Timing Equipment
It was bound to happen sooner or later. There had already been races decided on meagre hundredths of a second, and now we have an example of a race which has been decided in [more...]
Sochi Day 8: Mens 1500m
Jorien Ter Mors of the Netherlands leads Arianna Fontana of Italy at the European championships for short track. Recap After an uneventful, but controversial day off (which [more...]
Sochi Special: It’s not about the suits
The golden suits of team Japan in 2010 unfortunately didn’t yield the correspondingly-coloured medals. I had intended to use this ‘day off’ from speed [more...]
Sochi Day 6: Ladies 1000m
Bart Swings, a current world champion in inline skating is looking to add an Olympic medal to his collection. Recap The olympics continues to surprise and in that sense, [more...]
Sochi Day 5: Mens 1000m
Oakley sunglasses – a nutritious diet loved by speed skaters the world over. Recap Could anyone have possibly predicted the result? Well… no. Not at all. The [more...]
Sochi Day 4: Ladies 500m
Shani Davis from the USA will be going for his third consecutive victory in the 1000m Recap As was expected, a few surprises. Zhang from China posting a fantastic time from [more...]
Sochi Special: The Difference Between Short Track and Long Track
At the Vancouver Olympics in 2010, Latvian Haralds Silovs became the first skater in history to compete in both long track and short track speed skating in the same Olympics. [more...]
Sochi Day 3: Mens 500m
it has always astounded me just how much hair a person can fit under those hoods… Recap Heartbreaking, agonising, saddening, Daniel Greig caught the tip of his blade in [more...]
Sochi Day 2: Ladies 3000m
Yo, what up? Recap It’s like I always say – anything can happen. The night’s racing delivered an edge-of-your-seat battle right down to the wire, with the [more...]
Sochi Day 1: Mens 5000m
Recap So that went mostly as expected. Sven got pretty much the exact time I said he would by skating pretty much the exact splits that I said he would. I’m pretty sure [more...]