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Eight men and eight women's speed skaters will attempt to build on Canada's storied long track history at the Winter Games that includes 37 medals when they compete next month in Beijing.

Canada's Ted-Jan Bloemen and Kaleb Muller held up the top two spots on the podium in the men's 5000-metre race at the ISU Speed Skating Four Continents Championships on Wednesday in Calgary.

Canada won three more medals on the final day of the long-track speed skating World Cup on Sunday at the Olympic Oval.

Canada's Laurent Dubreuil put an exclamation mark on a successful World Cup season on Friday in Calgary. The Levis, Que., broke the national record in the 500 metres with a time of 33.778 seconds to win gold.

As Gilmore Junio attempts to reach his third consecutive Olympics, some things haven’t changed. The 31-year-old long-track speed skater burst onto the scene at the 2014 Olympics, when he gave his spot in the 1,000-metre race to a teammate.

Heading toward what would be her fourth Olympics, Valerie Maltais appears to be on a mission in her new discipline. Maltais won the 1,000 metres at the Canadian long track speed skating championships on Friday with a personal-best time of one minute 14.95 seconds.

The 2021 Canadian long track speed skating championships begin Wednesday in Calgary, a pivotal event toward the Winter Olympics in Beijing.

Canada's Courtney Sarault added to her medal haul at the short track world championships on Sunday, securing the bronze medal in the women's 1,000m and silver in the 3,000m Superfinal.

Canada's speed skating team capped its last warmup for the world championship with a pair of sprint bronze medals from Laurent Dubreuil on Sunday.

Canada’s Ivanie Blondin captured the overall mass start title at the speed skating World Cup in Heerenveen, Netherlands on Sunday.