Olympic rookie Steven Dubois, the unlikeliest medal threat of Canada’s speed skating trio in the men’s 1,500 metres, won a silver medal in a penalty-filled competition on Wednesday night in Beijing.
Dubois crossed the finish line in two minutes 9.254 seconds to earn Canada’s second silver of these Winter Games and eighth medal overall.
South Korea’s Hwan Dae-Heon posted a winning time of 2:09.219 while Semen Elistratov of Russian Olympic Committee (2:09.267) collected bronze at Capital Indoor Stadium.
Dubois teammates, Pascal Dion and Charles Hamelin, who won 2014 Olympic gold in the distance, exited earlier in Wednesday’s event.
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