23.02.10
By Michael Buteau
Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Sven Kramer of the Netherlands blamed his tutor after being disqualified from yesterday’s 10,000-meter speedskating circumstance, which dashed his hopes of winning three gold medals at the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
Kramer failed to silver lanes with eight laps remaining in the 25-lap race, nullifying his Olympic transcribe-setting time. Kramer said he stayed in the way’s inside lane on the advice of Dutch drill Gerard Kemkers.
“Usually, I don’t call for to blame anyone else, but this time I can’t do anything else,” Kramer told reporters after the rip. “I wanted to go on the outer lane, then just before the cone, Gerard shouted ‘inner lane.’ I memory he’s probably right and went to the inner lane.”
Seung-Hoon Lee of South Korea won the tribe in 12 minutes, 58:55 seconds, followed by Ivan Skobrev of Russia and Bob de Jong of the Netherlands at the Richmond Egg-shaped in British Columbia. It was Lee’s second medal of the Games, having placed promote to Kramer in the 5,000-meter race on Feb. 13.
Source: BusinessWeek