The Calgary 1988 Winter Olympics Film - Part 5 | Olympic History

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In Part 5 of the official Olympic film of the Calgary 1988 Winter Games we look at the speed skating events, in particular the performances of the Netherlands' Yvonne Van Gennip and East Germany's Karin Kania as both attempt to make Olympic history by winning gold in Speed Skating events.
Part 6 will be coming soon.
This video contains older content and is therefore published in 4:3 aspect ratio to maintain video quality.
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The video states that the 400m distance is measured on the inside lane. That is obviously false, since skaters switch lanes.