Road: Day 1

The first day of road racing was as expected: fast. Gregory Duggento broke his own 200-meter world record, not only once, but twice with a final time of 16.209! For the 200's, Andrew skated a mid-19, AJ a high 19, Alex and Jade mid 20's, and Sigrid skated a low 22.

The elimination races were f-a-s-t. The junior men skated in 14:22, but get this: the senior men finished in 13:45! That's crazy! I was looking at the splits and the times were 32's, with a few laps in the low 30's.


A rival from Mexico named Mystico and I after our wrestling match.


A junior skater from Korea finishing his 200-meter time trial.


Sigrid Ziegler mid-way through her 200-meter sprint.


Great Brittain's Vincent Henry flying through the air.


Dane Lewis qualified for the 200-meter final. Here is the form of his start in 16 pictures. Earlier, Italian sprinter Gregory Duggento broke his own 200-meter world record in a time of 16.317.


The afternoon was quite 'fun'. A bengay spray bottle fight at the hotel, jamming up Alex & AJ Perrie's room door, and a wet towel/ throwing things around fight in the athlete's tent helped release some tension. Mystico egged many of us on and ended up getting the short end of the stick in terms of wrestling. AJ Perrie got nailed in the face by a flying towel.


German skater Matthias Schwierz during the 200-meter final skating in 16.776.


Beautiful to see: Italian Gregory Duggento was in tears (of joy) after winning the 200-meter in world record time.


Argentina skaters out on a break earning enough points to ensure that Silvina Posada earned the gold.


Senior men's 10km points race action.

Alrighty; off to bed in about 1/2 hour. On the menu for tomorrow are the 500's and the 20km elimination races.