Where did speed skating originate? The history of skating goes back over 1,000 years to when people in Scandinavia and the Netherlands used bone skates to cross frozen rivers and lakes. Bone skates ...

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 ...

Canada’s William Dandjinou began the 2024 ISU Short Track World Tour with four individual race victories. Olympics.com looks ...

Italian speed skater Davide Ghiotto recorded the fastest 10,000m in history by four seconds ... because of the absence of International Skating Union judges and drug testers at the lower-level ...

Italian speed skater Davide Ghiotto recorded the fastest 10,000m in history by four seconds, but it will not count as a world record ... But Ghiotto’s time will not count officially because of the ...

That’s because for the past 48 years, the move was considered “illegal” by the International Skating Union (ISU), the organization in charge of making the rules for figure skating and speed skating.

Three-time Olympic speed skating champion Irene Schouten narrowly escaped suspension in 2023 for violating doping regulations. The Dutch skater spoke of the ordeal in her biography 'Hardened for ...

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

The Netherlands’ Suzanne Schulting, a three-time Olympic gold medalist in short track speed skating, qualified for the powerhouse Dutch World Cup team in long-track speed skating, though it is unclear ...