Team pursuit speed skating results
The USA men’s pursuit team did us proud today, finishing 21 hundredths of a second behind the Canadian team. Team leader Chad Hedrick was hoping for gold, as he plans on retiring after this Olympics, but they weren’t expected to make it this far, so he shouldn’t be too disappointed. Teammates Brian Hansen and Johnathan Kuck, both 19, are sure to be back in 4 years
US women did not fare as well. Though they held a good pace for much of the race, Catherine Rainey-Norman fell further and further behind teammates Jennifer Rodriguez and Jilleanne Rookard in the competition for bronze. The two lead women actually crossed the finish line before team Poland, but Rainey-Norman was just too far back to get the win. Gold was claimed by the German team for the second year in a row, edging the Japanese by a scant 2 hundredths of a second.
