Irene Schouten wants to win gold on rusty skates: ‘Everyone said: this cannot be done much longer’

Irene Schouten is very attached to the irons on which she won her three Olympic titles. So attached that she will ride it again from tomorrow at the World Championship distances in Calgary, while experts already thought she should switch gears last year. “Everyone who knows about it said: ‘Irene, this can’t go on much longer.’ They’re gone.”

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