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Isabelle Weidemann

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The Ice Skating Podcast

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Isabelle Weidemann is having a year. The Canadian speedskater is number one in 3000 and 5000 meter racing. She is the woman the rest of the world is chasing, heading into the Beijing Olympics. Weidemann is also the acknowledged diesel engine in Canada’s pursuit trio, along with Ivanie Blondin and Valérie Maltais. Why Diesel? Because once the lanky 26 year-old gets up to speed, she has fantastic efficiency and endurance. Weidemann hauls her teammates in her wake for extraordinarily long distances.Weidemann hunkered down for a chat with her old teammate Anastasia, at home in Calgary, a short jog from the Olympic Oval.  The Ottawa-born skater is as surprised as anyone to find herself a team veteran. Time flies when you are logging hundreds of hours toward saving fractions of seconds.   One of the surprises for Weidemann, amid the inevitable slog of training, is the recognition that try as she might in every way to be a better athlete, life away from the ice has more influence than most people acknowledge.  The week she got a new puppy was also the week Weidemann smashed personal goals in training.  A trip out of town with family set off a streak of racing successes. It happens too often to be a coincidence.  For the truly driven athlete…there’s an art to discovering when and how to step back, take the foot off the gas, and return to even greater results.  Anastasia has often said Isabelle Weidemann is one of the most underrated athletes in Canada. Before the Winter Olympics get underway, here’s a chance to discover why that quiet background buzz about the Canadian Speedskating team is getting steadily louder.

Isabelle Weidemann is having a year. The Canadian speedskater is number one in 3000 and 5000 meter racing. She is the woman the rest of the world is chasing, heading into the Beijing Olympics. Weidemann is also the acknowledged diesel engine in Canada’s pursuit trio, along with Ivanie Blondin and Valérie Maltais. Why Diesel? Because once the lanky 26 year-old gets up to speed, she has fantastic efficiency and endurance. Weidemann hauls her teammates in her wake for extraordinarily long distances. Weidemann hunkered down for a chat with her old teammate Anastasia, at home in Calgary, a short jog from the Olympic Oval. The Ottawa-born skater is as surprised as anyone to find herself a team veteran. Time flies when you are logging hundreds of hours toward saving fractions of seconds. One of the surprises for Weidemann, amid the inevitable slog of training, is the recognition that try as she might in every way to be a better athlete, life away from the ice has more influence than most people acknowledge. The week she got a new puppy was also the week Weidemann smashed personal goals in training. A trip out of town with family set off a streak of racing successes. It happens too often to be a coincidence. For the truly driven athlete…there’s an art to discovering when and how to step back, take the foot off the gas, and return to even greater results. Anastasia has often said Isabelle Weidemann is one of the most underrated athletes in Canada. Before the Winter Olympics get underway, here’s a chance to discover why that quiet background buzz about the Canadian Speedskating team is getting steadily louder.

Isabelle Weidemann in fine form

Kim Boutin

Joey Mantia

Elizaveta Tuktamysheva

Anna Shcherbakova

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Welcome to episode 20 of The Ice Skating Podcast – brought to you by the International Skating Union. It's another very busy edition, with two Grand Prix figure skating events to report from – the  Internationaux de France from Grenoble and the Rostelecom Cup from Sochi.We've got interviews with the stars of both meetings, including Guillaume Cizeron and Gabriella Papadakis, Anna Shcherbakova, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, plus Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov.The ISU World Cup Speed Skating season is also in full swing, and the action in Stavenger, Norway was thrilling – we’ve got a full report, including interviews with Joey Mantia, Isabelle Weidemann and Nils Van der Poel. The ISU World Cup Short Track meanwhile took place in Debrecen, Hungary and Dordrecht, Netherlands – and we’ve got a full run-down, including interviews with Suzanne Schulting, Shaoang Liu, Kim Boutin and Sjinkie Knegt.The Ice Skating Podcast is the official pod of the ISU, hosted every fortnight by Luke Norman and Nick Moore. 

Welcome to episode 20 of The Ice Skating Podcast – brought to you by the International Skating Union.  It's another very busy edition, with two Grand Prix figure skating events to report from – the  Internationaux de France from Grenoble and the Rostelecom Cup from Sochi. We've got interviews with the stars of both meetings, including Guillaume Cizeron and Gabriella Papadakis, Anna Shcherbakova, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, plus Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov. The ISU World Cup Speed Skating season is also in full swing, and the action in Stavenger, Norway was thrilling – we’ve got a full report, including interviews with Joey Mantia, Isabelle Weidemann and Nils Van der Poel. The ISU World Cup Short Track meanwhile took place in Debrecen, Hungary and Dordrecht, Netherlands – and we’ve got a full run-down, including interviews with Suzanne Schulting, Shaoang Liu, Kim Boutin and Sjinkie Knegt. The Ice Skating Podcast is the official pod of the ISU, hosted every fortnight by Luke Norman and Nick Moore.

Figure skating, Speed Skating and Short Track with Anna Shcherbakova, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Anastasia Mishina, Aleksandr Galliamov,  Joey Mantia, Isabelle Weidemann, Nils Van der Poel, Kim Boutin and Sjinkie Knegt