After a while, I just got fed up with waiting, I wasn't improving. As I did a little more training, I didn't feel like the symptoms were going away, but I felt fitter and healthier, so that just kind of motivated me more.
"Michael ("Mike") Ireland" (born 3 January 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian long track Speed skating/speed skater.
Ireland specialises in the sprint distances (the 500 m and the 1000 m). He participated in the 500 m at the 1994 Winter Olympics (finishing 26th), the 500 m (6th) and 1000 m (14th) at the 2002 Winter Olympics and the 500 m (7th) at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Ireland was the 2001 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships/World Sprint Champion, while winning several more medals at several World Championships (see the next section), and he also set a world record on the 1000 m (only to be broken 8 days later by compatriot Jeremy Wotherspoon).
In November 2008 Ireland suffered a severe injury in a World Cup event in Berlin. Later in the same meet teammate Wotherspoon broke his arm in seven places. In a span of two days Canada's two strongest sprinters were placed in serious jeopardy of not skating in the 2010 Olympics in their home country. Both skaters started the long road to recovery and in the 2010 Canadian Olympic trials both succeeded in their comebacks.
More Mike Ireland on Wikipedia.I can't put my finger on what's the problem.
To come seventh at the Olympics after a year of sitting on the couch isn't horrible. But I wanted to win.
After the experience I went through it was just a journey to get back to here.
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