Canadian speedskater Ivanie Blondin has captured a silver medal in the women's mass start event at Beijing2022.
Irene Schouten of the Netherlands overtook the Ottawa-born Blondin after the final turn of te 16-lap race to capture her third gold medal of the Games after winning the 3,000 and 5,000 metres. Schouten finished just six-hundredths of a second ahead of Blondin.
Blondin, 31, raced to the front of the pack on the final lap. She brings home her second medal of the Olympics after joining forces with Isabelle Weidemann and Valerie Maltais to take gold in the team pursuit.“These races the mass start, it fires me up," Blondin said."I’m a little bit of a fighter and I’m very competitive. The fact that girls were pushing me and there’s a lot of jostling and pushing and shoving just fires me up and kind of gets me going.
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