Ivanie

Canada's Ivanie Blondin raced to a silver medal in the women's mass start on Saturday at the ISU World Speed Skating Championship in Heerenveen, Netherlands.The 32-year-old from Ottawa stopped the clock after eight minutes 34.19 seconds,…

Ottawa's Ivanie Blondin took silver in the women's mass start event Sunday at the second-last World Cup speed skating stop of the season in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland.The 32-year-old picked up her fourth World Cup podium of the season in…

Canada's Ivanie Blondin captured bronze in the 5,000 metre at the speed skating World Cup in Calgary on Friday.Blondin, skating in the final pair next to fellow Ottawa native Isabelle Weidemann, bided her time through the gruelling race…

Canada's Ivanie Blondin got the best of a pair of Dutch skaters in the women's mass start at the season-opening World Cup in Norway earlier in November.But Irene Schouten and Marijke Groenewoud made sure that didn't happen on home ice in…

Double Beijing medallist Ivanie Blondin is the top Canadian competitor so far at the 2022 world speed skating championships. The Ottawa native is currently in 10th place midway through the women's allround competition after she finished in…

Canada’s Ivanie Blondin won the silver medal in the women’s mass start speed skating final at the Beijing Olympics on Saturday. The 31-year-old from Ottawa, who won her semifinal heat, was strong throughout the gruelling 16-lap race…

Canada's Ivanie Blondin won a silver medal in a thrilling women's mass start speedskating event on Saturday at the Beijing Olympics. SILVER Ivanie Blondin wins her second medal of #Beijing2022 with a silver in the women’s mass start…

Ivanie Blondin has, at long last, captured her first individual Olympic medal after winning silver in the women's long track speed skating mass start at the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games. "It is nice to finally get an individual medal.…

BEIJING - Ivanie Blondin's speed, patience and tenacity made her a double Olympic medallist Saturday in Beijing. She took silver in speedskating's combative mass start just four days after winning…

She makes it look easy, flying around the oval at world class times, but for speed skater Ivanie Blondin, the years since her medal-less return from the Pyeongchang Winter Games have been marked by deep depression and poor mental health.…