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Bronze medalist Laurent Dubré from Canada called Stolz the greatest speed skater of all time.
Stolz will also race in the Mass Start event next Saturday.
He's hoping to win gold in all of them.
On Friday, the Canadian men's team won a round-robin match against Sweden, but the victory was overshadowed by an altercation.
In curling, players throw a granite stone down the ice.
They must release it before it crosses the hog line or it gets removed from play.
During the match, the Swedes accused the Canadians more than once of touching the stone after it had passed the line, and Mark Kennedy, on Team Canada, responded with an expletive.
Game officials, who sit at either end of the sheet, say they didn't see a double touch so they couldn't call it.
The controversy is unusual in curling, a sport that prides itself on good sportsmanship and which players are supposed to call their own fouls.
Sports officials have issued a language warning to the Canadians and will assign officials to watch the rock throws going forward.
The stadium was a sea of orange.
The stands were filled with fans of Team Netherlands giving huge cheers whenever their speed skaters raced.
Dutch speed skater Femke Kok set an Olympic record, finishing two and a half laps on the track in one minute, 12.59 seconds.
Minutes later, her teammate Yuta Lierdom beat that time by about a quarter of a second, setting a new, new Olympic record.
US skater Brittany Bowe, who holds a world record in this distance, just missed the podium.
She finished fourth by a fraction of a second behind Miho Takagi from Japan, who set the last Olympic record in 2022 in Beijing.