Irene Schouten underlined her speed skating dominance at the Beijing Games by grabbing a third gold in the women’s speed mass start. The Dutch skater, who also won the 3,000 metres and 5,000m as well as team pursuit bronze in Beijing, left it late but just edged Canada’s Ivanie Blondin at the line with Italian Francesca Lollobrigida taking bronze. The Netherlands top the speed skating medal table with six golds after the 14th and final event. Five-times Olympic champion Claudia Pechstein of Germany, competing just days before her 50th birthday at a women’s record eighth Winter Games, finished …