![]() ![]() The Salt Lake City World Cup continues through Sunday. He enlisted in the military and did ultra running before returning to competition last December. He went nearly three years between racing after placing 14th in the 2018 Olympic 5000m. Van der Poel broke the 10,000m world record at the world championships in February, where he swept the 5000m and 10,000m. The most in-depth high-octane account of the gritty true story behind NASCAR comes. the miniseries NASCAR: The Rise of American Speed will air at 9 p.m. Dutch-born Canadian Ted-Jan Bloemen held the previous record of 6:01.86 set at the same oval in 2017. Watch Nascar: The Rise of American Speed Season 1 Episode 1 - Night One. Viewers of a three-part series about the rise of NASCAR as an American sport. Later Friday, Swede Nils van der Poel broke the men’s 5000m world record, clocking 6:01.56. ![]() woman to win an individual Olympic speed skating medal since 2002 and the first to win the 500m since Bonnie Blair in 1994. Jackson will look to qualify at the Olympic Trials next month, then set her sights on becoming the first U.S. This season, she became the first Black woman to win an individual World Cup race, according to US Speedskating. She did at the 2018 Olympic Trials, placing third in the 500m to become the first Black woman to make a U.S. In early December 2017, Jackson had yet to break 40 seconds in the 500m after converting from inline skating (and roller derby). Jackson has won four of the five World Cup 500m races this season - after coming into the campaign with a best finish of ninth. 12 over reigning world champion Angelina Golikova of Russia. Most records in speed skating are set in Salt Lake City or Calgary, which are at altitude. The 29-year-old Floridian clocked 36.80 seconds, breaking 37 for the first time and lowering the record of 36.90 set by Heather Bergsma in 2013. Jackson broke an eight-year-old American record in winning the women’s 500m at a World Cup in Salt Lake City on Friday. ![]() Now she’s an Olympic gold-medal favorite and American record holder. In these pictures, you'll feel the thunder.At this point in the last Olympic cycle, Erin Jackson was two months into her career as a full-time speed skater. Junior, the King, and the late, great Ironhead are profiled, as are the new stars: Jeff Gordon, and, of course, Ironhead's boy, Dale Earnhardt Jr. The huge post-World War II story is, of course, the rise of NASCAR, and this story is told in vivid detail, from its birth as weekend loops raced by hard-charging bootleggers in the South to its current status as the reigning national pastime. The carny circuit that was car racing in America leads off this fun and fast LIFE book, which chronicles the pageantry and excitement of the Indianapolis 500 as well as the occasional visits to our shores of Formula One racing, with its European flair. The carny circuit that was car racing in America leads off this fun and fast LIFE book, which chronicles the pageantry and excitement of the Indianapolis 500 as well as the occasional visits to our shores of Formula One racing Wonderful, fierce photography from the beginning of the automobile age proved that as soon as gas made cars go, the boys out back made them go fast. Wonderful, fierce photography from the beginning of the automobile age proved that as soon as gas made cars go, the boys out back made them go fast. ![]()
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