Oh boy! It's finally August! Which means we've finally arrived at Olympic Trials month. Tomorrow will be exactly one week from when we start our first set of races - the first set of (out of three) 1500 m's and 500 m's. This is probably one of the most important competition of my skating career. There is so much depth in Canada for Short Track talent. So it is going to be an intense week and a half. I general have that feeling when it comes to skating Canadian trials, but I know this'll be different. Normally, Canadian Trials are only one set of races, that run over a 3 day period. However, there's more on the line this time. Everyone in the top 16 is fighting for one of those 5 spots that'll send you to the Games in 2010! Of course, the Mens team is now down to 4 remaining spots! As Charles Hamelin has already been named to the team.
The competition will start on the 9th of August and run through to the 18th of August. The race days will be as follows:
Sunday August 9th: 1500m and 500m
Wednesday August 12th: 500m and 1000m
Saturday August 15th: 1000m and 1500m
Monday August 17th: 500m and 1500m
Tuesday August 18th: 1000m
We ship off to Vancouver on Wednesday evening.
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