{"id":66417,"date":"2026-02-15T14:34:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/femke-kok-dominates-500m-speed-skating-to-end-jacksons-hopes-of-retaining-olympic-title\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T14:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:34:52","slug":"femke-kok-dominates-500m-speed-skating-to-end-jacksons-hopes-of-retaining-olympic-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/femke-kok-dominates-500m-speed-skating-to-end-jacksons-hopes-of-retaining-olympic-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Femke Kok dominates 500m speed skating to end Jackson\u2019s hopes of retaining Olympic title"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Dutch star\u2019s years of dominance culminates in gold<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Jutta Leerdam wins silver in Dutch one-two<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>USA\u2019s Erin Jackson misses out on retaining title<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/09\/jutta-leerdam-winter-olympics-speed-skating-jake-paul\">in a Dutch one-two alongside Jutta Leerdam<\/a> in the 1000m. On Sunday evening, she performed like an athlete insistent on leaving no room for doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Kok leveraged two years of total sprint dominance into the first Olympic gold medal of her career. She blew away the field in the women\u2019s 500m in an Olympic-record time of 36.49sec with the kind of controlled, furious circuit that has made her a three-time world champion at the distance at 25 years old.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/15\/femke-kok-dominates-500m-speed-skating-to-end-jacksons-hopes-of-retaining-olympic-title\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch star\u2019s years of dominance culminates in gold Jutta Leerdam wins silver in Dutch one-two USA\u2019s Erin Jackson misses out on retaining title 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 &#8230; <a title=\"Femke Kok dominates 500m speed skating to end Jackson\u2019s hopes of retaining Olympic title\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/femke-kok-dominates-500m-speed-skating-to-end-jacksons-hopes-of-retaining-olympic-title\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Femke Kok dominates 500m speed skating to end Jackson\u2019s hopes of retaining Olympic title\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}