Speed skating is a form of competitive ice skating where athletes race against each other and the clock around a 400m indoor oval track. Athletes are ranked based on time taken to skate the prescribed ...

There is a spring-loaded hinge under the ball of the foot to snap (or “clap”) the blade back into its original position. Clap skates are permitted in long track speed skating but not short track for ...

The Dutch dominate international competition in long track speed skating and it’s no surprise to find the Dutch taking all three medal positions in some events. Here’s what you need to know. What’s ...

If you thought figure skating—the act of throwing yourself into the air and spinning above a sheet of ice with sharpened blades on your feet—looked like one of sport’s more reckless ...

Maame Biney, the first Black woman to make a U.S. Olympic short track speed skating team, announced her retirement from the sport at age 24. “After 19 amazing years in speedskating, I am officially ...

Olympic speed skating gold medalist Nao Kodaira is all-smiles after winning her last race, the women’s 500 meters, at the M-Wave ice arena in Nagano Prefecture on Oct. 22. (Sayuri Ide) ...

Muthukumar Karuppasamy, who helped inspire the team to pick up speed skating, died last summer from a heart attack, ...

Pain has been a large part of Kristen Santos-Griswold’s short track speed skating career, including at the pinnacle last March. At the World Championships in the Netherlands, Santos-Griswold became ...

Canada will host five international speed skating events in the 2023-24 season. Montreal will host back-to-back short-track speed skating World Cups on Oct. 20-22 and again on Oct. 27-29.

SEOUL, July 11 (Yonhap) -- Kim Min-seok, a three-time Olympic speed skating medalist born in South Korea, has become a ...

Ivanie Blondin and Graeme Fish captured more hardware at the Canadian long-track speedskating championships on Friday in Qiebec City. Blondin, who won the 3,000-metre crown on Thursday, claimed ...