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      <title><![CDATA[Olympic medal-winning speed skater from Russia makes Norwalk his part-time home]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Speed Skate Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1280867467" delta="4 weeks ago"><![CDATA[8/3/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[A few lucky souls are born with the ability and the desire to compete in the Olympic Games. A few more are given the opportunity to live out the American dream. With a little more hard work, and a little bit of luck, Ivan Skobrev could complete two lifetimes worth of dreams in a few short years.Born in the Russian city of Khabarovsk, Skobrev grew up in temperatures far different ...]]></text>
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      <title><![CDATA[Christine Nesbitt counts her blessings]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Speed Skate Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1278622358" delta="8 weeks ago"><![CDATA[7/8/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Olympic gold medallist Christine Nesbitt feels lucky to only have a fractured elbow after a sport utility vehicle struck her bike while she was riding in Calgary. The long-track speedskater had just completed a weightlifting session at the University of Calgary's Olympic Oval last Friday when she was hit while crossing a busy intersection.“I feel lucky because I know it could have been a lot worse,” Nesbitt said Wednesday. “Even ...]]></text>
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    <article id="12407">
      <title><![CDATA[Post-Games, a new start for Speed Skating Canada]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Speed Skate Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1276730007" delta="11 weeks ago"><![CDATA[6/16/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Speed-skating icon Susan Auch surveys the roster gaps at the top of Canada's most successful Winter Olympic sport and sees opportunity. 'It sounds like there's more of a loss of leadership than there actually is, but the truth is, if you don't change, you don't get better,' Auch said in an interview after news emerged that a fourth member of Speed Skating Canada's management team is joining the exodus. Brian ...]]></text>
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    <article id="11870">
      <title><![CDATA[Only 16, Skater Kwak Is Mature, Firm on Goals]]></title>
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      <createdate unixtime="1273090791" delta="17 weeks ago"><![CDATA[5/5/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[These days she is called the next Kim Yu-na, and even a medal hopeful for the next Winter Olympics with public expectations escalating following a surprisingly good result at the Vancouver Games. Kwak Min-jung, however, seems undaunted by the growing weight on her shoulders. In a clear and determined way, the 16-year-old skater told The Korea Times that her No. 1 priority now is just to do her best regardless ...]]></text>
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    <article id="11869">
      <title><![CDATA[Ballston Spa to honor Olympian Trevor Marsicano]]></title>
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      <createdate unixtime="1273090508" delta="17 weeks ago"><![CDATA[5/5/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[The Ballston Spa community is pulling out all the stops Friday for a parade to honor hometown Olympian Trevor Marsicano. The 20-year-old speed skater was part of a silver-medal winning team at the Vancouver Olympics. The parade steps off at 630 p.m. from the South Street School and will proceed down Milton Avenue to Wiswall Park. An awards ceremony will follow with presentations by Mayor John Romano and the supervisors ...]]></text>
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    <article id="11420">
      <title><![CDATA[Shani Davis returns to Evanston]]></title>
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      <createdate unixtime="1271121422" delta="20 weeks ago"><![CDATA[4/12/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Olympic speed skating champion Shani Davis returned to Evanston for the second time in four years Thursday night to show off the gold and silver medals he won in the recent Vancouver Olympics. Don't be surprised if he makes another Evanston appearance four years from now.Davis told his adoring fans, packed into the stands of the Robert Crown Community Center – where Davis got his speed skating start – that ...]]></text>
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    <article id="11419">
      <title><![CDATA[Le May Doans contact with rings goes beyond the Olympic Games]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Speed Skate Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1271121166" delta="20 weeks ago"><![CDATA[4/12/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[If you go deep into Shona Le May's closet, you may find an old ringette stick hidden among the miscellaneous broom sticks. That would be one of her daughter Catriona Le May Doan's not-so-dirty little secrets. Indeed, long before Le May Doan began pursuing the symbolic five interlocking Olympic Game rings, the future Olympic champion was busy chasing that little blue rubber ring in the sport of ringette.Not too many ...]]></text>
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    <article id="10784">
      <title><![CDATA[MacLennan shines at Worlds]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Speed Skate Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1268760446" delta="24 weeks ago"><![CDATA[3/16/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[If he couldn't have gold, Richard MacLennan was going to have silver twice. MacLennan, a 19-year-old native of Sault Ste. Marie, was second in both the 500-metre and 1,000-metre events at the World Junior Long Track Speed Skating Championships, this past weekend in Moscow. The medals were MacLennan's second and third on the world stage, after also taking silver in the 500 metres last year. And much like last year, ...]]></text>
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    <article id="10783">
      <title><![CDATA[Retirement not easy for Wotherspoon]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Speed Skate Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1268760236" delta="24 weeks ago"><![CDATA[3/16/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Jeremy Wotherspoon knows that after powering around the world's speedskating ovals for most of his life, retirement won't come easy.  But the Canadian long-track skater, who announced Saturday that he was calling it quits on a remarkable career, hopes the excitement of his next challenge will help ease him through the tough transition. The 33-year-old has been named the head coach of an international training centre in Inzell, Germany, ...]]></text>
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    <article id="10255">
      <title><![CDATA[Ohno wins bronze in 1000 meters]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Speed Skate Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1266945482" delta="27 weeks ago"><![CDATA[2/23/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Few thrills, no spills, just a slip in the corner that nearly cost Apolo Anton Ohno a place in history.  Ohno's own mistake dropped him to last place with three laps remaining in the short-track 1,000-meter final Saturday night, trailing the South Koreans and two Canadian brothers. With the gold and silver out of reach, Ohno scooted furiously past Charles and Francois Hamelin to earn ...]]></text>
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      <title><![CDATA[Davis turns feud into love fest after win]]></title>
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      <createdate unixtime="1266945415" delta="27 weeks ago"><![CDATA[2/23/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[VANCOUVER - Shani Davis and Chad Hedrick feuded during the Turin Games but the American skaters turned the Vancouver 1,000 meters into an American love fest at the Richmond Olympic Oval on Wednesday. World champion and record holder Davis used up his last reserves of strength over the closing 300 meters of the final pairing to beat the target and repeat as 1,000 meters champion and become the first man ...]]></text>
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    <article id="10253">
      <title><![CDATA[Dutch Lesbian Speed Skater Ireen Wüst Wins the Gold]]></title>
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      <createdate unixtime="1266945361" delta="27 weeks ago"><![CDATA[2/23/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Lesbian speed skater Ireen Wüst will bring the gold home to the Netherlands after winning the gold medal in the women's 1,500-meter race on Sunday, reports the Advocate. Wüst posted a time of 1 minute, 56.89 seconds to beat Canadian Kristina Groves by .25 seconds to capture her country's fifth speedskating medal of the Vancouver Olympics. Czech Martina Sablikova won the bronze with a time of 1:57.96.At the podium, Wüst ...]]></text>
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