I think I must have just lost more speed than I thought on the second turn. If I think back on the race, that's the only part that really felt off in any way.
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"Jeremy Lee Wotherspoon" (born October 26, 1976) is a Canada/Canadian Speed skating/speed skater, widely recognized as one of the greatest speedskating sprinters of all time.
Wotherspoon was born in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, but grew up in Red Deer, Alberta. He first became involved in speedskating after signing up for a power skating class in an effort to improve his ice hockey abilities. Initially, Wotherspoon competed in both short track speed skating/short track and long track events. He eventually chose long track as a specialty and climbed through the junior ranks, moving to Calgary to train with the Canadian national team at the age of 17. Wotherspoon soon won medals on the World Cup circuit, with his first victories in 1997. In December 2003, Wotherspoon became the most successful male skater in World Cup history when he claimed the 49th victory of his career. Since November 2007, Wotherspoon is the holder of the current World record progression 500 m speed skating men/500 m world record.{{cite web
More Jeremy Wotherspoon on Wikipedia.I wasn't surprised to see the world record fall.
I contemplated during the race whether I should ease up and re-skate but I was skating so well, ... It's extremely rare to a get a faster time on a re-skate. It's really difficult to know how much the crossover problem affected my final time.
After the race I was kind of mad, I kind of thought I could have done better than that. But then I thought, 'Well I really turned things around and got things going again after the 500.
In the last couple of years I haven't had a race where I really did everything right and was really on. So that's something that would be nice to do. But I think it's also important for me to give myself a bit of a break.
It bothers me a little. Mostly that so much more emphasis gets put on the Olympics.
It's something that was just a strange occurrence. I never ever felt like I wanted to win a race to make up for that. It was more like I always felt I was capable of it (winning gold). It's gold, it's something you use to motivate yourself.
Kato won the world title last year and he's been on fire for awhile.
Being this consistent is pretty big for me, ... I haven't felt totally on physically or technically so far this year. But I've still been able to respond to the challenge which is a really good sign for later in the season when I'll be at my best.
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