The U.S. Short Track speedskating team includes three athletes from Illinois, including our own Mary Grace as well as Lana Gehring and Katherine Reutter. Read the complete entry for team members and photo.

A skater from the Texas Flyers is attempting the unthinkable: Skating across the USA in inline skates, hoping to get into the Guiness Book of World Records. Believe it or not, it has been done once before by Rusty Moncrief in March of 2002. The current record stands at 69 days, 8 hours and 45 minutes. Dan hopes to break that record, planning on skating the distance (2,500+ miles) in something slightly over 30 days. That means he must average 100 miles a day!

Luigino has created a new line of wheels called “Answer” which promise to bring some innovation to the scene. According to part 2 of an interview with Joey Mantia by Michael Cheek, the new line of wheels will be handled strictly by Luigino (not in partnership with Powerslide, like they do for Matter wheels). The wheels will have a one-piece hub, a new innovation in the wheel industry.

Inline Planet has released the first four races that will participate in this years National Roller Cup. They are the Metrodome Inline Marathon, San Francisco Inline Marathon, Saint Paul Inline Marathon and the Hayward Inline Marathon.

They are currently having conversations with some other events as well (including Duluth). Full details at Inline Planet.