Learn how Olympic speed skating works — event formats, race distances, elimination rounds, mass start rules, and how skaters ...

Steven Bradbury was stunned as China’s short-track fortune continued amid controversy, two days after accusations of biased ...

Sixteen years after the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, Canada’s next generation of short-track speed skaters will return to the city that helped inspire their careers, bringing back Olympic memories, ...

Kristen Santos-Griswold, of Fairfield, missed a spot in the women’s 1000m short track speed skating semifinal by just .034 seconds on Monday morning. Santos-Griswold placed third in the quarterfinal ...

Xandra Velzeboer has secured her second gold medal of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics on Monday, 16 February. The Dutch star won the women’s 1000m short track speed skating final with a time ...

Corinne Stoddard followed her Olympic 1500m bronze medal — the first medal for a U.S. women’s short track speed skater since 2010 — with another 1500m bronze at the World Championships in Montreal.

The biggest difference between the two is how the races are run. Speed skating, or long track, is a race against the clock. Skaters compete in pairs on a large 400-meter oval, which is the same size ...

Kristen Santos-Griswold, of Fairfield, missed a spot in the women's 1000m short track speed skating semifinals by just .034 seconds on Monday morning. Santos-Griswold placed third in the quarterfinals ...