Ping Huang
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And I happened to be out in the mix zone at the same time that Snoop Dogg and his entourage were leaving.
He was like, I don't know, like 10 feet ahead of me.
I took a very blurry photo, but you know, someone in the back of his entourage looked over at me, saw my NPR sweater.
I don't know if that was what did it or not, but she handed me his pin and now I have a Snoop Dogg pin.
It's pretty awesome.
I'm here for a day.
Thank you.
At the Milano Speed Skating Stadium, it's becoming the norm for speed skaters to blast through previous Olympic records.
Sunday was no different in the women's 500-meter sprint.
Going last in the event, sprinter Femke Koch clocked the distance in 36.49 seconds,
beating the previous Olympic record by nearly half a second.
Koch now holds both the Olympic record and the world record set last year in this event.
It was a 1-2 finish for the Dutch, her teammate Jutta Lierdam came in second, and Japanese skater Miho Takagi came in third.
Erin Jackson, the top US sprinter, missed the podium by five hundredths of a second after a stumble going into the second corner.
Now that her events are done, she plans to enjoy the food and the sights in Italy.
In the 500-meter speed skate, Stoltz was paired with Yannick Dubot, a top sprinter from the Netherlands.
It was a rematch between them.
They last raced side-by-side in the 1,000-meter event on Wednesday to the same result.
Stoltz winning gold, setting a new Olympic record, Dubot close behind with the silver.