Nils van der Poel returned to the sport of speed skating last year after quitting it years before, saying that he would win the 5000m and 10000m at the Beijing

Nils van der Poel returned to the sport of speed skating last year after quitting it years before, saying that he would win the 5000m and 10000m at the Beijing Olympics, endurance events. Known for spicy interview comments like "I don't want to say that my competitors aren't going to win because they trained too poorly. I want them to have hope left." He won the 5000 with a tiny difference but smashed his own world record and the competition on the 10000. He announced he would retire again and would make his training regime public, this is that training regime. It is incredibly tougher than what other speed skaters do.