if you are in the real schaatsliefhebbers, she was already well known as a top-flight talent, and the reigning world champion in the junior league, but on Saturday we had Her Cook for the first time ever, the public at large. The only nineteen-year-old Friezin it was also, to her own surprise, the third place in the 500 meters at the national championships the distances, and not just to the world CHAMPIONSHIP distances.
the world CHAMPIONSHIP distances, in mid-February in the united states, Salt Lake City, told the Cook, after she had been placed in her first major tournament on the senior level. “I thought,” that’s the uci road world CHAMPIONSHIPS in Calgary, alberta, canada, were. But apparently it’s not,” said the second-year junior, is in the collection of the Vessel.
the Cook was the Saturday version of the 500 meters away from the national championship only to Jutta Netherlands (37,74) and Letitia de Jong (37,93) is violated. By 38,14 she took her eight-hundreds of a second off of her personal record, she was of the big names, as They for the Spill and took them for a plane ticket from Salt Lake City.
as of Or for the rider of the province of Friesland will have to start at the world CHAMPIONSHIPS on the fastest track in the world, it remains to be seen. “I did not take them into account”, and smiled to the inhabitant of Nij Beets, with a bronze medal around her neck. “I have to, but just by me and my coach are going to talk about all the things I’m going to drive.”
As a Chef, focus this season is primarily in the world junior championships, and the tournament is on the week after the world CHAMPIONSHIPS the distances, eight time zones away, in Poland, Tomaszów Mazowiecki.
“It seems to me to be really, really cool to be on a fast track to the drive-in in Salt Lake City, which I have never done this before. Yes, for a time, one training session two years ago. However, the world CHAMPIONSHIP for juniors, is, for me, is really the main objective with this winter season. So we have to be next week, but it is a good plan.”
As a Cook (to the right) in the NR-stage (500 meters away from Letitia de Jong (left) and Jutta Netherlands (in the middle). (Photo: Pro-Shots).
‘m not concerned with expectations, ”
Last season was a Cook, the most successful skater at the world junior championships in italy Baselga di Piné with the gold in the allroundtoernooi, in the 1,500-meter, and for the teamsprint and a silver medal in the 500-and 1,000-meter.
the world championship for juniors in the small-vierkamp, she is following in the footsteps of the well-known names, as well as the German Anni Friesinger (1996), Ireen Wüst (2005), Marrit Leenstra (2008), Japan’s Miho Takagi (2012 and 2013), Antoinette de Jong (2014) and the Netherlands (2017).
“you know, I’m not really involved in the things that other people say that they are now a lot of me would expect,” says Cook. “I have to have the time to see it. And when I’m by myself more and more going to expect, I explain myself just then.”
as a Chef has not yet made the decision whether they want to focus on in the dash, or in the allrounden, though, she seemed to be Saturday in the 500 metres, with a gap of eur 10.47 sounds a lot like a top sprinter. “I never would have expected. My fastest of the opening in the Vessel it was with 10.7, so this is a bit of a change.”
“But the juniors are going to the allrounden is still very good, so that’s where my focus is me, for now. Though I have to admit that it’s a 3 km, the most distance, which I find to be long and boring. The 500-metre, I find, is a lot of fun, because then you’re going to fast. Sounds to me like a sprinter? Yes, maybe, yes.”
See also: Overview: the Results and the program’s national championships distances
