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May 28, 2004
Cleveland highlights clip
Cleveland highlights clip
Many thanks to Sue (footage), Sonia (editing) and Maggie (web hosting) for this clip from last season's U.S. National Short Track Championships in Cleveland. This clip depicts warmups with Apolo and Shani, plus Apolo's 4-lap time trial. Enjoy!
Have a great Memorial Day weekend, everyone!
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May 26, 2004
QF 1
This is turning out to be a long series! Here are more photos from Apolo's 1500m quarterfinal at the World Championships in Sweden.
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QF 2
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QF 3
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QF 4
l-r: Takafumi Nishitani (JPN), JiaJun Li (CHN), Apolo Ohno (USA), Guillaume Mathieu (FRA), Volodymyr Hryhoryev (UKR)
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QF 5
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May 24, 2004
casey fitz
Casey FitzRandolph on the issue of doping
Doping has been all over the news lately as prominent names among U.S. track athletes and Summer Games hopefuls are accused of using performance-enhancing drugs. U.S. long track skater Casey FitzRandolph recently discussed doping with The Capital Times of Madison, WI. The article describes how Casey recently underwent a 'no-advance-notice' drug test, something all U.S. national team skaters are subject to. They are supposed to keep the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency informed of their whereabouts at all times for this purpose.
Casey takes a tough line on athletes who use illegal substances:
'I find myself cheering for them to bust people, because there's no doubt there have been a lot of people who have won Olympic gold medals that didn't deserve to do so.'
FitzRandolph is fairly certain speedskating is generally clean. But it wasn't always so.
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