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 ...

Olympic speed skating champion Nao Kodaira wrapped up a glittering career by winning her eighth straight women’s 500 meters at the national single distance championships in her native Nagano ...

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 ...

Develop your skills and practice with a variety of skating and hockey drop-in programs to suit your schedule. A CSA-approved hockey helmet is strongly ... You must be a competent forward and backward ...

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 ...

I want people to see my personality through my skating," he said. "I'm not a typical skater. I'm tall. My body shape. I have a skin colour that's not typical of a speed skater." He's also known ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...

Speedskater Ivanie Blondin reached the top step of the podium for a third straight day with a victory in the women's 1,500 metres on Saturday at the Canadian long track championships. Blondin, an ...