Competitors must skate outside the blocks during the entire race ... Clap skates are permitted in long track speed skating but not short track for safety reasons. A maneuver in which one arm is swung ...

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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 won six of the nine events at the World Short Track Speed Skating Championships ... and became familiar with skating ...

Background Musculoskeletal injuries are commonly seen by medical staff of speed skating teams, but lack of injury registration underreports the incidence and prevalence of these injuries. Systematic ...

Colombia’s Pedro Causil on Monday became the first ever South American to take part in the speed skating finals of the Winter Olympic. Causil’s start at the 500 meters sprint in Pyeongchang wasn’t ...

Conclusion Experienced athletes have a well-developed performance template, and changing pacing strategy towards a theoretically optimal fast start protocol had negative consequences on speed-skating ...

BEIJING--When China's Gao Tingyu hopped onto the podium at the Beijing Olympics to receive his gold medal in the men's 500-meter speed skating on Saturday, he marked a special moment for Asian ...