VANCOUVER, Canada—On the last night of short track speed skating on Friday, Canada’s Charles Hamelin took a last minute, or rather, last second lead in men’s 500 m short track speed skating at Pacific Coliseum with 40.981 seconds.
Hamelin, the 25-year-old reigning world champion, set an Olympic record in his quarterfinal heat earlier in the evening with 40.770.
South Korea’s Sung Si-Bak took the silver medal with 41.340 and Hamelin’s teammate Francois-Louis Tremblay took bronze with 46.366. America’s Apolo Ohno, who was America’s medal contender, was disqualified for impeding Tremblay.
Although Ohno, the most decorated racer of the evening, benefitted from good fortune and dexterity in his earlier two heats as skaters ahead of him tangled and crashed, Ohno had a bad start in the final round, lying last among the four skaters.
At the last corner before the finish line, Ohno tried to cut inside Tremblay, probably resting his hand on the Canadian skater, causing him to fall as Ohno went ahead. Hamelin successfully overtook Sung, who fell right away. Hamelin crossed the finish line while losing his balance a little. He may have had a hand on Sung when he passed him.
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