Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Speedskating champ too busy to sharpen game

Chad Hedrick grew up in Spring, about as close to golf and as far from speedskating as a kid could get.

Always competitive, Hedrick was roller skating (at his parents' rink) at 2 and won his first national championship at 8. He won a world inline skating championship in 1994, and 10 years later, just 18 months after switching to ice skates, he won a world speedskating championship in Norway. At the 2006 Olympics in Torino, he won a gold, a silver and a bronze.

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