Canada skates to mixed team relay silver medal in Montreal

The old physical distancing. So, Zoe Deltraut, Cassandra Velzebore, the women on the Dutch side, the winners a week ago, is Zhang Chutong, Courtney Serot, Cassandra Velzebore, and Chiara Betti to start. Go to the start. It's the rare time we see Cassandra Velzebore starting a race like this out in position number three, and it's a good start in the end for Zhang, getting ahead of Serot. Start of the mixed relay, it's always so critical, you want to be in that lead position, have a little bit more freedom for the exchanges, not get bogged down by the other teams. Cassandra Velzebore looks up the inside of Serot, just almost an excuse me kind of pass, didn't really push, just sort of glided through and that allowed Deltraut to start her leg in second, but it is Gong Li for the Chinese lungs. Elisa Confortola up ahead of Danae Blais in third for the Italian Gladiators. They did not medal at all on World Tour last season. And then just peaked, when it mattered, at the Olympics and at the World Championships on this very ice. Sun Long, Tun Bor, Lorenzo Privitali, and Maxim Laun. Maxim Laun, all contact on the back of Privitali. Maybe looking for the inside. You have a little bit more time to set up passes when you're on the two and a half lap exchange as we move into our finishers. And Jungbo Hao, Jens van den Vout, Thomas Natalini, Felix Husserl. An impressive list of finishers. And van den Vout, a look up the inside, not going to do it. Husserl taking a look up the outside. There's so little room out there to be had when you're trying to make a pass. And they are switching things around. The Dutch have switched their women. It's Zoe Deltrap leading that leg now. Sarou tried to go up the inside of Betti and Betti goes down. Just a shoulder-to-shoulder racing in that corner. Chinese Longs and the Dutch Lions with a little separation, but in a play, making quick work of that to close it down to Sandra Velzeboer, makes it up the inside. That is why you switched her back to go into second. She had time to make her move up the inside, and now if they're not careful, she is going to take off, and it will be Thunborg with Laun up into second ahead of Sun Long. Well, Thunborg is going to be handing off to the most decorated man on the world tour, Jens van den Vout, right now. So, no easy work to be done for the Canadians and the Chinese lungs here. Husserl went under 40 seconds here in Montreal, but it is Jens van den Vout from Thunborg. They were knocked down a bit as a team yesterday in the men's 500 meters, but when a team gets knocked down, they get back up. Tremendous performance here from the Dutch Lions. They were clean through this race, so they're celebrating that victory. One review pass early on between Courtney Serreau going in on Chiaravetti. We'll be keeping a close eye on the monitor here, waiting to get a better look at that pass. Attempt made by Gordon Serreau, they were locked in, they were going through the corner already, the contact came early on the entry, but the crash came on the exit, is Chiara Vetti just losing her footing? We are looking at possible shared responsibility there in that one, so if you are new to Short Track, that's sort of when you're both a little to blame, and so we'll penalize neither. So there it is. Just a look here, Chiara Vetti, Vetti was a bit on the outside there, I can see... And then coming back in on Seurat, and they kind of just locked in the corner there and holding it. But Vetti losing and spinning out on the exit. We'll be looking at lane changes from both skaters. So an in-to-out change as Courtney's going up the inside, trying to get a little extra room on the corner entry. But Chiara Vetti then sensing the inside pass attempt from Seurat, coming back into the track to try to close that door off. A decision, a penalty for shared responsibility between Team Canada and Team Italy.