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!

Team Rainbo’s own Sadie Grace is now attending Marquette University. Marquette put up a nice little blog entry about Sadie, where she talks about training in Salt Lake City and her aspirations for the 2010 Olympics.