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 Jutta Leerdam in the 1000m. Kok leveraged two years of total sprint dominance into the first Olympic gold medal of her career. Leerdam took the silver in 37.15sec, inverting the order from their 1000m finish six days earlier, while Japan’s Miko Tahagi repeated her bronze from the 500m with a time of 37.27sec, once again from the early pairs.
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