Ottawa, Nov. 23 -- Dutch skaters continued their dominance at the ISU Speed Skating World Cup in Calgary by taking two golds out of four on offer.
Femke Kok clocked 36.65 seconds to take her fifth consecutive World Cup gold over 500 meters across this and last season on Saturday.
Kok's opener was 10.36 seconds, compared with 10.19 last week in Salt Lake City, but she was quick enough in the rest of the race to beat Chen Ying-Chu of Chinese Taipei into second place by 0.49 seconds. The bronze medal went to American Erin Jackson, who finished in 37.15s.
"My opener was not so good. I was not very sharp today, and then the way I entered the last corner was wretched, but my speed is all right so I'm happy to be able to post a time like this a...