1) The Dutch speed skater was only 19 in 2006 when she won a gold medal in the 3000-meter race at the Turin Olympics.

2) Her early days certainly didn't foreshadow a speed skater who would donate $10,000 out of her own bank account to the humanitarian group Right To Play after winning gold at the 2006 Turin Olympics.

3) Another speed skater Li Jiajun won a bronze medal in men's 1500 - meter short - track race.

4) Christa Luding-Rothenburger, who was also a speed skater, earned a silver medal in cycling to become the only person in history to win Winter and Summer medals in the same year.

5) Cheek, a speed skater who competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics, had planned to go to Beijing to support Olympic athletes who are members of Team Darfur.

6) Our speed skater was coming in last, and it was near the end of the race.

7) There was a feature on legendary speed skater Gaetan Boucher, winner of two gold and a bronze at the '84 Sarajevo Games, who was about to take his last shot at the podium in the men's 1,500 metres.

8) In addition to being a world-class athlete, speed skater Clara Hughes is a talented artist.

9) Short track speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno became the most decorated U.S. Winter Olympian, winning three medals for a career total of eight.

10) I'm thinking now of Wang Meng, the world champion and Olympic gold medal short track speed skater.

11) His post - goal showboating gave way to the sweeping arm motion of a speed skater.

12) But for some possible future Olympians,[http:///speed skater.html] the games are about to begin with help from an American speed skater.

13) The class of 2010 also includes actor Eric McCormack of Will and Grace fame, and Olympic speed skater and cyclist Clara Hughes.

14) It was then she found her next teacher, Xiuli Wang, a former Chinese speed skater who guides her to this day.