Japan's Nao Kodaira extended her winning streak to 34 straight races with a gold-medal 500-meter sprint performance at a World Cup event in the Netherlands on Saturday.The 32-year-old clocked 37.17 seconds around the oval at the sea-level Thialf arena in Heerenveen and shaved 0.12 off the previous track record she set last year."It was a normal time. I've been doing well in practice, so I wanted to show off a bit more in the race," said Kodaira, whose personal best at the distance is 36.50."My (World Cup) debut was also in Heerenveen, so the crowd was really cheering me on when I was skatin…READ FULL ARTICLE
