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Brittany Bowe will slowly glide to the line this weekend for the first time in five months. It will be her first long-track speedskating World Cup race in nearly a year. And in that moment, said one of the world's premier long-track skaters, she guarantees she'll be overcome with "every emotion you can write down."
"But I'm a racer," she said, "so my thoughts are when I get to the start line, it's just going to by like any other race."
That's what Bowe, the 28-year-old Olympian who has 43 ISU World Cup medals to her name, keeps telling herself. But her races in Heerenveen, Netherlands, won't be like any other. Because they will be the first races that ccc hopefully ccc leave behind the sudden uncertainty of her blossoming career. Those mornings of waking up unsure if the concussion symptoms will resurface or not. Those days she initially felt good enough to skate around the Utah Olympic Oval in Kearns with a targeted return date on the horizon.
"Frustrating is one way to put it," Bowe said. "Heartbreaking is a better way to put it."
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