Sven Kramer won his third straight men’s gold medal to match a feat last accomplished by Eric Heiden in 1979, and Martina Sablikova won her first women’s title at the World Allround Speedskating Championships on Sunday.
Heiden, a U.S. speedskater regarded as the best men’s in history, won three straight beginning in 1977.
U.S. skaters Trevor Marsicano and Chad Hedrick, a former inline skater from Texas who led a 1-2 United States finish in the last worlds at Hamar in 2004, finished fifth and sixth, respectively, in the men’s event… More info
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: North Carolina kid trades inline skates for ice skates and rises quickly through the ranks, just in time to make a run at the Winter Olympics.
No one is calling Heather Richardson the next Joey Cheek just yet, but she’s definitely an athlete to watch as the countdown to the Vancouver Olympics hits the one-year mark this week.
Richardson, a 19-year-old from High Point, is the reigning U.S. champion in long-track speedskating’s sprint events and recently finished 20th at the World Sprints…. More info
In April when snow begins to melt, Kern River Outfitters’ general manager Keith “Luther†Stephens will be on the Kern River surrounded by two dozen guide-hopefuls. The young men and women will be participating in the 2009 Kern River Outfitters Whitewater School – an annual six-day course designed to teach the basics of being a whitewater rafting guide and a sort of “on-the-water interview,†as Stephens put it.
“Each summer we hire about five or six new guides for our Kern River rafting trips,†said Stephens. Kern River Outfitters is anticipating more applicants for their guide school, which is slated from April 18 through April 23, and to hire more guide school participants than ever before.
“Most of the participants we have had are college students who want to work in a fun, exciting, and outdoorsy environment… More info
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Cape Town, South Africa – Like a predator stalking his prey, Patrick Davids’s eyes rarely stray from the choppy green sea, and his radio is always at the ready.
While the assortment of sunbathers, swimmers, and surfers may not know his name, they know what he does and that one day they may owe him their lives.
Mr. Davids, or “Rasta” as he is better known, is a shark spotter who helped set up one of the world’s only shark-monitoring units along beaches in Cape Town, South Africa.
From a cramped beach hut, Davids has helped build up a network of full-time shark spotters on nine beaches, watching over one of the world’s most shark-infested shorelines.
Nearly seven years ago, the former …Â More info