MIC'D UP: Coach Bob Corby (USA) 🎤 | Heerenveen 2023 |
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- What was coach Bob Corby (USA) thinking during Jordan Stolz’ phenomenal 1500m race which helped him claim a third World title at 2023 ISU World Speed Skating Championships in Heerenveen? Go behind the scenes with Bob mic’d up to find out!
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Every coach's dream. Bob's waited his whole life for an athlete like this. Such a gift.
When Jordan races, it doesn't even look fast, and he seems less tired than his competitors as he crosses the finishing line. I think it's because his technique is so good and so economical he actually uses less energy to go fast than anyone else right now, allowing him to maintain his top speed for longer.
It's an amazing achievement not just by Jordan but by the whole team. Bob and all the rest have so many just reasons to be proud of Jordan, themselves and each other.
I've been mostly watching the men's 5,000 and 10,000 over the last two decades, enjoying the tactics, the schedules, and the refinement of long-distance technique, but for this championships I thought I'd watch everything: the Ladies' events, the sprints. Everything. And I am so glad I did, for there were some amazing races and personal achievements I otherwise would have missed, including the absolutely phenomenal performance by Jordan Stolz who, theoretically, still has many years left until he reaches his peak performance as well.
Wow! Just wow!
Jordan said in one recent interview is that he has the long femurs.That has to be a big factor too.He also said he does a lot of endurance training,esp when covid hit and the rink in West Allis was closed in 2020.He said he was biking,running up the ski hill near his home twice a day plus lifting more weights.Eric Heiden whom I got to meet in June of 1980 at a bike race in Calif called Jordan the superstar of the present and future in that great NY Times article.
@@hattiem.7966 Longer femurs? Well, that would certainly give him an edge. I was actually thinking of Heiden (and Shani Davis) when I saw Jordan race since it looks to me like he has the potential not just to be a sprinter but to be a great allrounder.
There actually aren't that many current established allrounders who raced a 5,000m in 6:27.68 at 18 years of age, and even if he never skates a 10,000m faster than 13 minutes - though I think he could if he trained for it - he'd still be able to win an allround championship by potentially being so far ahead of the others on the 500m and 1500m.
His economical style of skating is one that could serve him very well on the longer distances.
There are so many promising young speed skaters right now, who are already at or near the top of the sport several years before their theoretical physical peak, that I predict the next decade is going to be full of amazing competitions and exciting record-breaking races. I'm really looking forward to it.
@@hakonsoreide Are you Norwegian?I have been there a few times and have friends near Fetsund.I also skated in too small figure skates at Frogner in 1987 and got to meet the famous Knut Johannesen at an event.He was so nice.I told him I had met Eric at a bike race in June of 1980 near San Diego.I had lived out there before moving back to the east coast.I met Dan Jansen in 1996.He lives 2 hrs from where I am now.Jordan was talking about his legs,he is all legs and has a shorter torso.There are two excellent NY Times articles on Jordan.Eric was quoted as saying Jordan is the superstar of now and the future.J S is debating about the 10,000 and may skate in 5 races in Milan.The mass start and team pursuit were not around when Eric skated but he did skate the North American pack style on lakes as a child.
@@hattiem.7966 That is so cool how you met Knut Johannesen, and Eric Heiden, of course: two living legends. Dan Jansen too. I remember watching him compete at Lillehammer 1994 (on tv, that is).
I am indeed Norwegian, yes, and though I've never done speed skating or ever been to a speed skating event in person, I realised 20 years ago it was my favourite sport to follow, and really it's the only one I follow these days.
I didn't watch the 1980 Olympics (I was 5 and not really interested) and just missed seeing Eric Heiden at his peak, but I have fond memories of watching speed skating just a few years later when he was often mentioned by the amazing sports commentators on Norwegian tv as one of the greatest speed skaters of all time (which he still is), though I don't think he competed much anymore.
I watched Rolf Falck-Larsen win the 1983 allround championships, and 11 years later, I was also watching live as Johann Olav Koss did what is probably the closest anyone could get to matching Heiden's 1980 Olympic performance by winning and setting new world records in three events at the Lillehammer Games. By that time, 500m and 1000m had become the events of highly specialised sprinters that no one able to win a 5,000m or 10,000m could hope to match.
I was watching when someone first did a 10,000m faster than 13 minutes, and I enjoyed seeing Sven Kramer, Håvard Bøkko and Sverre Lunde Pedersen while they were still juniors, compete and show amazing potential alongside more seasoned skaters.
Mass start and team pursuit are really not my favourite events, but I guess it adds a bit of flavour and a different kind of dynamic into the sport, which can only be a good thing. I think someone at ISU was thinking about ways to make the sport more exciting to watch, also by trying to reduce the number of 10,000m competitions in a season, which I am not particularly happy about since it's easily my favourite distance to watch.
Generally, though, my favourite aspects of the sport is seeing young skaters displaying great technique and potential, as well as maturity and restraint in their race strategies for the longer events.
It is very exciting to watch outstanding performances, both in absolute terms and when athletes beat their personal bests, regardless of where they end up in the results.
Anyway, I'd really love to see Jordan do the longer distances too. When watching Jordan race I immediately thought of how he has the potential to be the greatest speed skater of all time, so it's nice to hear Eric Heiden agrees with me. After all, he really should be better at spotting that sort of thing than I am.
After Sven Kramer and Nils van der Poel retired and there certainly were signs Patrick Roest wasn't necessarily at the top of his game anymore the last few years, I was worried there might be fewer things to look forward to, but then you have the likes of Sander Eitrem, Sigurd Henriksen, Peder Kongshaug, Beau Snellink, and Jordan Stolz all doing amazingly for their age, and now I just can't wait for the next season to start.
@@hakonsoreide I grew up near Washington,DC and fell in love with the sport during the 1972 Sapporo games.That tells you how old I am!! I roller skated mostly as it was never cold enough to ice skate.I rolled skated on a small indoor oval for half a day in the early 1970's.I wish I had grown up,up north where there is ice.Now the skaters the US has,most were inline skaters and roller bladers that switched to the ice.JS hopes the sport grows more as it never did after Eric and his 5 golds.i walked on that oval in Lake Placid on a very hot day in Aug of 1996.Jordan like Eric was 18 when he peaked and he will be 21 too in 3 years.When I visited my friends in Fetsund,they drove me and my hubby to Lillehammer for the day.We saw all the venues and I lost my pics of me outside the Viking ship in Hamar.What Dan Jansen did was so touching,finally winning a gold medal and skating with baby Jane later.His daughters don't skate.Eric's daughter sings opera and does track I think.She is here on YT.Look up Zoe Heiden singing.His son plays baseball.His niece Joanne Reid was in two winter games in the biathlon.She didn't fare that well.
Heartbreak for the Dutch, but they are the first to congratulate the USA coaches!!
Bob Corby: "Season is over"
Jordan, 1 week later: Junior world record😂😂😂😂
Indeed and the place was so empty compared to Heerenveen.
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Congratulations, Bob, what a fantastic season!