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Bo's next event is the women's 500 meters on Sunday.
So far, speed skating leads in setting new Olympic records at these games.
The stadium was a sea of orange.
The stands were filled with fans of Team Netherlands giving huge cheers whenever their speed skaters raced.
Late in the event, 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 Jutta Lierdom beat that time by about a quarter of a second, setting a new, new Olympic record.
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.
Bowe's next event is the Women's 500 Meters on Sunday.
So far, speed skating leads in setting new Olympic records at these games.
The ice is fast at the Milano Speed Skating Stadium.
In his bright red onesie, arms clasped behind his back, 23-year-old Sander Eitrom sailed through 12.5 laps around the track.
In the men's 5,000-meter event, the Norwegian speed skater beat the previous Olympic record by nearly five seconds, easily clinching the gold medal.
The previous record was set four years ago in Beijing.
Itram has made a habit of breaking records lately.
Last month, he skated even faster at the Speed Skating World Cup in Germany, breaking the world record in this distance, becoming the first skater to come in under the six-minute mark.