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15-03-2025
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Kristen Santos-Griswold rests at short track worlds after relay collision
American Kristen Santos-Griswold sat out Saturday's races at the World Short Track Speed Skating Championships to rest after colliding with another skater in a relay on Friday. Santos-Griswold collided with Canadian Danaé Blais in the first round of the mixed-gender relay in Beijing. Blais crashed first in an area where teams were making relay exchanges. Blais got up and began taking steps to avoid incoming skaters, but couldn't get out of the traffic area entirely before Santos-Griswold skated into her after making an exchange. Medical professionals tended to the skaters for one to two minutes before each skated off the ice slowly with one person holding each's arm. Santos-Griswold held padding to her mouth. She was later taken to a hospital as a precaution, according to the International Skating Union. 'While she is not seriously injured, she is pretty banged-up and whether she races tomorrow, we will make that decision in the morning," U.S. head coach Stephen Gough said Friday, according to the ISU. U.S. Speedskating later posted that Santos-Griswold would rest Saturday before making a decision on whether to race on the last day of worlds on Sunday. "Our top priority is the health and well-being of our athletes, and we look forward to her full recovery," the post read. Blais posted that she will miss the rest of worlds due to injury. The final rounds of the women's 1000m were Saturday, with Belgian Hanne Desmet taking the title. The final rounds of the women's 500m and 1500m are Sunday. Santos-Griswold won a medal in all five events at the 2024 World Championships, including her first world title in the 1000m. This season, she became the third American to win an overall season title as the top-ranked skater combining results across the 500m, 1000m and 1500m. Kristen Santos-Griswold kept skating after Olympic heartbreak and is better than ever Kristen Santos-Griswold is coming off the best season for a U.S. short track speed skater in over a decade. Nick Zaccardi, Nick Zaccardi,
NBC Sports
15-03-2025
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Kristen Santos-Griswold rests at short track worlds after relay collision
American Kristen Santos-Griswold sat out Saturday's races at the World Short Track Speed Skating Championships to rest after colliding with another skater in a relay on Friday. Santos-Griswold collided with Canadian Danaé Blais in the first round of the mixed-gender relay in Beijing. Blais crashed first in an area where teams were making relay exchanges. Blais got up and began taking steps to avoid incoming skaters, but couldn't get out of the traffic area entirely before Santos-Griswold skated into her after making an exchange. Medical professionals tended to the skaters for one to two minutes before each skated off the ice slowly with one person holding each's arm. Santos-Griswold held padding to her mouth. She was later taken to a hospital as a precaution, according to the International Skating Union. 'While she is not seriously injured, she is pretty banged-up and whether she races tomorrow, we will make that decision in the morning,' U.S. head coach Stephen Gough said Friday, according to the ISU. U.S. Speedskating later posted that Santos-Griswold would rest Saturday before making a decision on whether to race on the last day of worlds on Sunday. 'Our top priority is the health and well-being of our athletes, and we look forward to her full recovery,' the post read. Blais posted that she will miss the rest of worlds due to injury. The final rounds of the women's 1000m were Saturday, with Belgian Hanne Desmet taking the title. The final rounds of the women's 500m and 1500m are Sunday. Santos-Griswold won a medal in all five events at the 2024 World Championships, including her first world title in the 1000m. This season, she became the third American to win an overall season title as the top-ranked skater combining results across the 500m, 1000m and 1500m. Nick Zaccardi,
NBC Sports
16-02-2025
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Kristen Santos-Griswold is third American to win short track overall season title
Kristen Santos-Griswold has finished the short track speed skating World Tour season ranked No. 1 in the world, becoming the third American to win an overall title. Santos-Griswold had the best results across 18 total races among the 500m, 1000m and 1500m distances over six stops on the circuit dating to last October. She wrapped up the overall title this weekend at the 2026 Olympic venue in Milan, Italy, winning the 1000m on Saturday and the 500m on Sunday. The previous Americans to finish a short track season ranked No. 1 were eight-time Olympic medalist Apolo Ohno (2000-01, '02-03, '04-05) and Katherine Reutter ('10-11), the last American woman to win an Olympic short track medal in 2010. The annual short track World Cup began in 1998-99. Last season, Santos-Griswold won a medal in all five events at the World Championships, including her first world title in the 1000m. Santos-Griswold made her Olympic debut in 2022 with a best finish of fourth, then took time to decide whether to keep skating. This season brought challenges. Santos-Griswold won four individual races, but also crashed at least six times on the World Tour. 'Bad luck seemed to be the theme of the season for me,' she said recently, according to the International Skating Union. Next up are the World Championships from March 14-16 in Beijing, live on Peacock. Competition could ratchet up in the 2025-26 Olympic season. Dutchwoman Suzanne Schulting, the world No. 1 four consecutive seasons from 2018-19 to 2022-23, spent this season skating long track instead as she worked her way back from breaking an ankle at last March's short track worlds. She has said she wants to race both disciplines at the 2026 Olympics. South Korea's Kim Gil-Li, the 2023-24 overall champion, missed the fifth of six World Tour stops to compete in the Asian Winter Games. That took her out of the running for this season's overall, though she trailed Santos-Griswold after four stops. Nick Zaccardi,
Yahoo
14-02-2025
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American short track skater Kristen Santos-Griswold looking for Olympic redemption
MILAN (AP) — American speed skater Kristen Santos-Griswold has unfinished business with the Winter Olympics. The 30-year-old from Fairfield, Connecticut is targeting next year's Milan Cortina Games as redemption after an agonizing end to the short track at Beijing almost made her quit the sport entirely. Santos-Griswold was one of the favorites going into the women's 1,000 meters final at the 2022 Olympics and led heading into the last lap before short track superstar Arianna Fontana tried to make a cut up the inside and the pair collided, with both crashing. 'Yeah, last Olympics obviously didn't go my way and it was pretty hard to handle, I'm not going to lie,' Santos-Griswold said in an interview with The Associated Press on Friday. 'I struggled a lot with deciding if I wanted to keep skating after that, and kind of came back and forth between realizing that I wanted to do it for fun and because I love the sport and it wasn't about the outcome. 'And that's something that I'm still working on every day, just to remember why I'm here.' Fontana was eventually disqualified, handing Santos-Griswold fourth place. But the American struggled after returning from China. Santos-Griswold opted not to go to that year's world championships and instead took some time out to decide whether to return to the sport. 'I was all over the place in my head,' she said. 'I would say like about a month of myself going back and forth, like really figuring out if it was what I wanted, not like what someone else wanted, not what family wanted, and if I could handle the mental aspect of skating because it's really hard. 'Ultimately I went back and forth for a while and decided that I didn't feel like I was ready to give it up. I felt like I still had more to give in the sport and I really wanted to push myself to the end.' Santos-Griswold was speaking at the start of races this weekend in Milan that serve not only as the last leg of the Short Track World Tour — with her in pole position to win the Crystal Globe — but also as a test run for next year's Olympics, with some of the skating events set to be held at the same venue. 'Definitely being here this weekend I think is really exciting and also nerve-wracking,' Santos-Griswold said. 'You want to obviously have a good feel and get a good mindset to be ready to be here in a year from now. 'But I think regardless of what happens, it's also enough time to reset if needed. So my goal for this weekend is to really just get a good feel and prepare myself for next year.' Having taken three Olympic trials to book her ticket to the Games, Santos-Griswold acknowledges that she felt the pressure in 2022. She feels there will be even more pressure next year but believes she is learning the lessons from Beijing. 'I think it was honestly a good precursor for this upcoming one and knowing how to handle that,' Santos-Griswold said. 'I think that's something that honestly I've been dealing with a lot this year even, is the pressure of skating and how hard it can be and how frustrating it can be when you feel physically ready but mentally you might be not quite there. 'So I think while it's hard to deal with right now, I'm grateful that it's happening right now so that I can figure out ways around it and working with it.' And there is one crucial aspect Santos-Griswold is focusing on. 'I think I always feel like I have to constantly prove myself in the sport,' she said. 'But I'm working on being confident in the type of skater I am and knowing that I don't need to prove to anyone that I'm good. 'That I'm just good.' ___ AP Olympics: Daniella Matar, The Associated Press
Associated Press
14-02-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
American short track skater Kristen Santos-Griswold looking for Olympic redemption
MILAN (AP) — American speed skater Kristen Santos-Griswold has unfinished business with the Winter Olympics. The 30-year-old from Fairfield, Connecticut is targeting next year's Milan Cortina Games as redemption after an agonizing end to the short track at Beijing almost made her quit the sport entirely. Santos-Griswold was one of the favorites going into the women's 1,000 meters final at the 2022 Olympics and led heading into the last lap before short track superstar Arianna Fontana tried to make a cut up the inside and the pair collided, with both crashing. 'Yeah, last Olympics obviously didn't go my way and it was pretty hard to handle, I'm not going to lie,' Santos-Griswold said in an interview with The Associated Press on Friday. 'I struggled a lot with deciding if I wanted to keep skating after that, and kind of came back and forth between realizing that I wanted to do it for fun and because I love the sport and it wasn't about the outcome. 'And that's something that I'm still working on every day, just to remember why I'm here.' Fontana was eventually disqualified, handing Santos-Griswold fourth place. But the American struggled after returning from China. Santos-Griswold opted not to go to that year's world championships and instead took some time out to decide whether to return to the sport. 'I was all over the place in my head,' she said. 'I would say like about a month of myself going back and forth, like really figuring out if it was what I wanted, not like what someone else wanted, not what family wanted, and if I could handle the mental aspect of skating because it's really hard. 'Ultimately I went back and forth for a while and decided that I didn't feel like I was ready to give it up. I felt like I still had more to give in the sport and I really wanted to push myself to the end.' Santos-Griswold was speaking at the start of races this weekend in Milan that serve not only as the last leg of the Short Track World Tour — with her in pole position to win the Crystal Globe — but also as a test run for next year's Olympics, with some of the skating events set to be held at the same venue. 'Definitely being here this weekend I think is really exciting and also nerve-wracking,' Santos-Griswold said. 'You want to obviously have a good feel and get a good mindset to be ready to be here in a year from now. 'But I think regardless of what happens, it's also enough time to reset if needed. So my goal for this weekend is to really just get a good feel and prepare myself for next year.' Having taken three Olympic trials to book her ticket to the Games, Santos-Griswold acknowledges that she felt the pressure in 2022. She feels there will be even more pressure next year but believes she is learning the lessons from Beijing. 'I think it was honestly a good precursor for this upcoming one and knowing how to handle that,' Santos-Griswold said. 'I think that's something that honestly I've been dealing with a lot this year even, is the pressure of skating and how hard it can be and how frustrating it can be when you feel physically ready but mentally you might be not quite there. 'So I think while it's hard to deal with right now, I'm grateful that it's happening right now so that I can figure out ways around it and working with it.' And there is one crucial aspect Santos-Griswold is focusing on. 'I think I always feel like I have to constantly prove myself in the sport,' she said. 'But I'm working on being confident in the type of skater I am and knowing that I don't need to prove to anyone that I'm good. 'That I'm just good.'
