Dan Jansen has significant experience rewriting the speed skating world record book.
The 1994 Olympic 1000m champion broke the 500m world record in 1992, and then lowered his mark another four times. He also set world records in the 1000m and sprint combination.
Yet even Jansen is shocked by the number of edits to the record book over the last two weeks.
“I haven’t seen anything like it,” Jansen said. “Not this many.”
Four world records were broken this past weekend at the World Cup in Kearns, Utah. The weekend before, world records in three Olympic events fell at the season-opening World Cup in Calgary.