North Carolina becomes a hotbed of Olympic speedskating
William Douglas, McClatchy News Service, February 16, 2018
The U.S. Olympic speedskating team at the 2018 Winter Olympics has a North Carolina accent.
Long track skater Heather Bergsma and short track coach Anthony Barthell hail from High Point, N.C., while long tracker Kimani Griffin is from Winston-Salem.
The Tar Heel State isn’t known as a hotbed for ice sports. But the state has a reputation as a mecca for inline skating, which has increasingly become a key supplier of talent for the U.S. ice speedskating program.
There's quite a lot in this piece about the High Point Speed and Piedmont Speed skating teams and their impact on ice speed skating at the current Olympic games.