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Dutch women’s velocity skating hopeful Jutta Leerdam bounced backmost connected Sunday successful nan 500-meter title arsenic she hoped to make nan Olympic team for nan 2026 Milan Cortina Games.
Leerdam vanished successful 2nd spot down Femke Kok successful nan race. Kok, who group nan women’s 500-meter world grounds successful November, had a clip of 36.873. Leerdam vanished pinch a clip of 37.242.
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Jutta Leerdam participates successful nan Staatsloterij Olympic Qualification Tournament astatine THIALF successful Heerenveen, Netherlands, connected Dec. 26, 2025. (Caroline van Leusden/EYE4images/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
It was a overmuch amended than Friday’s result.
Leerdam, who is nan fiancée of boxer Jake Paul, collapsed and fell connected nan crystal during nan 1,000-meter event. She was seen successful tears arsenic she skated disconnected nan ice.
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Jutta Leerdam of nan Netherlands looks dejected competing connected nan Women's 500m connected Day 1 of nan Dutch Speed Skating Olympic Qualifiers astatine Thialf connected Dec. 26, 2025 successful Heerenveen, Netherlands. (Henk Jan Dijks/Marcel ter Bals/DeFodi Images/DeFodi via Getty Images)
"I'm skating truthful good successful practice. What those girls are skating here, I could person easy skated today," she said, via Olympics.com. "I've skated 1:14 present 25 times, and I consciousness moreover amended now than I person successful nan past 2 years. I’m really hitting it."
There’s still dream for Leerdam to suffice for nan Olympics arsenic nan nationalist committee will yet make nan determination arsenic to whether Leerdam will make nan cut.
Leerdam won a metallic badge successful nan 2022 Beijing Games successful nan 1,000-meter race. She vanished conscionable down Japan’s Miho Takagi, who group an Olympic grounds time.
Jutta Leerdam of nan Netherlands receives nan golden badge for nan women’s 1000m during nan ISU Speed Skating World Cup astatine Utah Olympic Oval connected Nov. 14, 2025. (Peter Creveling/Imagn Images)
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She skipped nan 2025 ISU Speed Skating World Cup successful Hamar, Norway, to attraction connected Olympic trials.
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