Joey Mantia of the USA competed in the Men’s 1,000 meters long track speed skating this morning. He skated in the 13th out of 18th pair. He had a really good race and with one of the best times this year not at altitude. Takura Oda of Japan skated in the next pair and they had to go down to the hundreth of seconds to show Joey was still in the lead. But from there he had to slowly watch himself slip to second and third and finally Kjeld Nuis of the Netherlands skated last and took gold knocking Joey off the podium (really Dutch skaters, didn’t have enough medals already? couldn’t share the wealth a little bit?).
2014 and 2018 have not been the best for US speed skaters and this would have been a really big deal for Joey and the team but unfortunately he ended up sitting in the hardest spot. So just wanted to give him a little shout-out that someone was watching your race this morning and is proud. And you can read a lot more about him here if you are interested.
And way to go Dutch skaters….smooth move assholes
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