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KEARNS — Brittany Bowe watched as the pair of skaters racing just before her at the ISU long track World Cup both broke the world record for her favorite distance on the ice where she trains.
It created both anxiety and excitement as the two-time Olympian took the ice just after Miho Takagi and Nao Kodaira, who owned two world records coming into this weekend, both beat the former fastest time in the world for 1000 meters — 1:12.09.
“I’m watching Miho and Nao, and they both go 1:11.7, and I thought, ‘That’s going to be a tough act to follow,'” said Bowe after capturing both the 1000-meter gold and a new world record with her time of 1:11.61, edging Japan’s best — Takagi, who earned silver with a time of 1:11.71, and Kodaira, who earned bronze with 1:11.77. “When someone breaks a world record, there is a little bit of a delay going to the start line. I knew I had to have close to a perfect race.” Rising in the mix of...