fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week agoFemke Kok dominates 500m speed skating to end Jackson's hopes of retaining Olympic title
On Sunday evening, she performed like an athlete insistent on leaving no room for doubt. Kok leveraged two years of total sprint dominance into the first Olympic gold medal of her career. She blew away the field in the women's 500m in an Olympic-record time of 36.49sec with the kind of controlled, furious circuit that has made her a three-time world champion at the distance at 25 years old.
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