Speed skating: Morishige 3rd as Stolz becomes youngest world champion

Japan's Wataru Morishige collected bronze Friday as 18-year-old American Jordan Stolz became speed skating's youngest-ever world champion with victory in the men's 500 meters.Stolz clocked 34.10 seconds to upset the favorite, Canada's all-around World Cup champion Laurent Dubreuil, by 0.36 at the Thialf speed skating arena in Heerenveen.Morishige, who won bronze over the distance at the 2022 Beijing Winter Games, finished 0.38 off the pace to narrowly beat countryman Yuma Murakami to the podium by 0.03. Among the other Japanese, Tatsuya Shinhama was ninth.The Japanese women's pursuit team o…READ FULL ARTICLE