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Feb. 2, 2022 - Local speedskaters head to Winter Olympics
2/2/2022 | 1m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
Tacoma and Bellevue speedskaters head to Beijing Winter Olympics.
The athletes discuss the challenges of short track skating, keeping up their mental health and avoiding COVID-19.
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Feb. 2, 2022 - Local speedskaters head to Winter Olympics
2/2/2022 | 1m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
The athletes discuss the challenges of short track skating, keeping up their mental health and avoiding COVID-19.
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(gentle music) From Apollo Ono to JR Celski to Aaron Tran, the Puget Sound region is known for short track speed skating athletes who have gone all the way to the Olympics.
This year Corinne Stoddard and Eunice Lee, hailing from Tacoma and Bellevue, will continue that tradition.
The local athletes, 20 and 17 years old respectively, are headed to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
The two are the first female speed skaters from the Pacific Northwest to reach the Olympics in years.
Stoddard will compete in all the women's races, the 500, 1,000 and 1,500 meters, as well as the relay.
Lee qualified for the team as the fifth person on the four-person relay team, meaning she is there as an alternate.
If she ends up competing, she'll be the youngest US short track skater to compete at the Olympics since 1998.
I'm Stephen Hegg.
Read an interview with these two athletes on crosscut.com.
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