MILAN – Another day of record-breaking speed skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics ended with some Double Dutch. The Netherlands duo of Femke Kok and Jutta Leerdam stood on the podium together after Kok ...

And, well, Kok did, too. Embracing those expectations rather than fighting them, Kok extended her two-year-plus unbeaten streak at her sport's shortest distance Sunday, adding a gold medal and the ...

MILAN (AP) — Everyone expected Femke Kok to win the 500-meter speedskating gold medal at the Milan Cortina Olympics. Even her Dutch teammate, Jutta Leerdam, the woman who beat Kok in the 1,000. Even ...

Speed skater Femke Kok had admitted that anything but gold in her signature 500m race would be a disappointment after opening her Olympic account last Monday with silver in a Dutch one-two alongside ...

MILAN -- Everyone expected Femke Kok to win the 500-meter speedskating gold medal at the Milan Cortina Olympics. Even her Dutch teammate, Jutta Leerdam, the woman who beat Kok in the 1,000. Even the ...

Femke Kok has been utterly untouchable in the 500 meters of speed skating entering the 2026 Winter Olympics. The superstar from the Netherlands has raced the event seven times in World Cup competition ...

MILAN — Everyone expected Femke Kok to win the 500-meter speedskating gold medal at the Milan Cortina Olympics. Even her Dutch teammate, Jutta Leerdam, the woman who beat Kok in the 1,000. Even the ...

Kok wins Olympic gold in 500m to give Dutch their first women's title in the distance Leerdam takes silver; Takagi secures bronze, tallying nine Olympic medals Dutch speed skating team claim eight ...

Kok powered through the final turn and easily pulled away from Jackson, finishing in 36.49 seconds — a whopping 0.66 seconds ahead of teammate Leerdam, who defeated her in the 1,000 meters Monday.