Mathieu Giroux qualifié pour les Jeux de Vancouver!

Thierry Bourdeau - Avenir de l'Est - 1 janvier 2010

C’est fait! Mathieu Giroux s’est offert tout un cadeau du jour de l’an en se qualifiant sur l’équipe canadienne de patinage de vitesse longue piste qui prendra part aux prochains Jeux olympiques de Vancouver, en février.

Mission accomplished by Giroux

CTV Sports - Grant Robertson, The Globe and Mail - January 1, 2010
 Canada's most improbable speed skating story has become a reality.
"It feels just awesome. Finally," Giroux said Friday after learning he had locked up a spot on the Olympic squad.  [...] All those choices I made 12 months ago to switch to long-track: Quit school for a year, moving to the West in April, all those choices I made finally paid off," he said.

Skating from the front

But now Lambert will be leading others to glory

Joe O'Connor, National Post - 30, 2009

Forget about having a bad week. Nathalie Lambert was having the worst week of her life.

She went to the Olympics to win three gold medals. She was going to be the queen of short-track speed skating in Lillehammer, Norway.

That was her plan. Those were the predictions.



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Mathieu Giroux: The long and short of it

Grant Robertson - The Globe and Mail - December 27,2009

Mathieu Giroux bought his first pair of long-track speed skates just more than a year ago. This week, if things go well in Calgary, he will add his name to the Canadian Olympic team.
It is a remarkable story of one athlete so determined to compete at the Olympics that he packed up his car in Montreal late last fall and drove across the country to Vancouver, where the Canadian speed-skating team was training.


Once there, he walked into the Richmond Oval and declared to Canadian coach Ingrid Paul that he didn't simply want to learn long-track speed skating; he said he too would be going to the Vancouver Olympics.