There aren’t any American speedskaters within the Olympic males’s 10,000 meters after Casey Dawson withdraws

MILAN (AP) — Casey Dawson withdrew from the boys’s 10,000 meters in speedskating on the Milan Cortina Olympics on Friday, hours earlier than the race, leaving the occasion with out its solely American entrant.

U.S. Speedskating mentioned Dawson wished to focus as an alternative on the crew pursuit, which holds quarterfinals on Sunday, and the person 1,500 meters subsequent Thursday. Dawson completed eighth within the 5,000 meters final weekend.

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U.S. coach Gabe Girard mentioned the choice “doesn’t come as a shock and at all times was part of the choices coming” for the Winter Video games.

America hasn’t received an Olympic gold within the 10,000 since Eric Heiden did in order a part of his 5 victories on the 1980 Lake Placid Video games. The nation’s final medal at speedskating’s longest distance was Chad Hedrick’s silver on the 2006 Turin Olympics.

Among the many contenders Friday had been Sander Eitrem, the Norwegian who received the 5,000 in an Olympic-record time in Milan, and Davide Giotto, the Italian who set the ten,000 world report of 12 minutes, 25.69 seconds in January 2025 and claimed a bronze within the occasion on the 2022 Beijing Video games.

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