Derek Parra won a silver medal with speedskating (5000meter).
His coach is the dutch Bart Schouten. He was asked to go to Minneapolis to train young speedskaters, his decision to do that was easy because he is a big Princefan! To work in the purple city was like a dream, to listen to Little Red Corvette driving downtown Minneapolis is awasome. About 4 years ago he became the coach of the american team and now Parra won the silver medal!

The whole story can be read in Dutch at the following link.

http://www.ad.nl/artikele...74628.html

[Derek Parra is a young Olympic Speed Skater from California, and the first Mexican-American to compete in the Winter Games. - V Jillian]