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Polish skaters in Calgary

On the first weekend of March took place in Calgary competition with the World Cup series in skating. For this reason they were here Polish skaters. As is almost every time is going when they visit our city, we host them here for dinner one evening. This time too, without any of that is not cared.

wines of the evening went a lot, however, hasten to report that the players were not the perpetrators of this - more trainers and no calgaryjscy aborigines.

in this photo is from Barry Wójcicka coming from my hometown of Sanok. Barry now lives a few years in Zakopane, where he trains under the tutelage of Krzyska Niedzwiedzki.














Here Danusia with Barry.














Here the group photo. From left to right - Paul Abratkiewicz (current team coach sprinters, three-time Olympian himself), Chris Niedźwiedzki (seated - wieloboistow team coach), Barry Wójcicka (two times Olympian), Artur Was (Olympian of Turin), said to me, Maciek Ustynowicz (Olympian of Turin ) and Cuba Urbanski (were skaters, Polish champion, who lives permanently in Calgary and my good friend).














worth noting that in these competitions Maciek Ustynowicz broke the previous record in the 500m Polish Pawel Abratkiwicza belonging to the (now his coach). This record became the Olympics in Salt Lake City in 2002. And in such a way Polish record descended below the magic barrier of 35.04 to 34.83 ...

Writing High Hat On Sibelius

Lila Lila, and also here with Arthur skater ...

We here a lot of talking about the exploits of Lili, and there quietly in the shadow of another skater in the family grows. During the competition in January pojezdzil very nicely, and slew all their zyciowki with a large reserve. As from among their peers not in the way of competition in Alberta and neighboring provinces, it must compete competed in the group with older children. Alberta Championships so the kids wore about two years older than him, but he gave himself, and there's great advice - took 3rd place.

This age group is rather difficult to trace the network, but it seems to me that an overview of the situation I'm pretty good in the whole of Canada. Only in Quebec is a boy at the age of Arthur, who has similar performance (but still weaker by comparison, even the results of the open track) on the big track. On the short track is still najepszy in the west of the country, but in Quebec it is already much greater konkurecja. Short track Arthur did not somehow walked this year, but also defeated and there zyciowki.

Here we have nice portrait of Arthur before one of the gear in Calgary (3 pics by Robert Track)













Here spidery Arturek goes on hold. Spidery, as the still drivin high (only just now we take more solid to work on technique this summer).













Here and in the brilliant idea of \u200b\u200bthe finals in these zadowach - the two men before him are older than him by 2 years.













in February while we were in the Euro championships. America in Winnipeg (about which I write in the next blog), where they also competed in Arthur's age group (Bantam - 8 and 9 years prior to July 2006). Arturek there had completely no competition, and won without any problem. Year there will be much harder, because it will be in a group with older guys and a lot more of them arrives at the championship event (in the Arthur group was 8). Here you will receive a gold medal from the event at an evening banquet.














Here natmiast trackowym short on training with his two colleagues (Even older than him)













At the end of the season as the Arturka we list the moral behavior of all the records from that season.

Long track:
300m - 32.02 (in the hall), outdoor
33.32 500m - 52.46 (Hall), on the air
55.68 800m - 1:27.16 (Hall), 1:29.10 (air)
1000m - 1:44.92 (Hall), 1:57.40 (air)

Short Track:
333m - 500m
41.54 - 60.16
666m - 1:22.90
777m - 1:37.71 (in the last race of the season and driving down to 1:34 before August wywalil 10m meta)