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 ...

In individual long track speed skating events, competitors skate around a 4000m oval in a contest for the best time. "There are two lanes on the ice, two different skaters who never come into contact ...

2022 Beijing Olympics - Speed Skating - Men's 1500m - National Speed Skating Oval, Beijing, China - February 8, 2022. Cornelius Kersten of Britain in action. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch British speed ...

2022 Beijing Olympics - Speed Skating - Men's 10000m - National Speed Skating Oval, Beijing, China - February 11, 2022. Nils Van Der Poel of Sweden reacts after competing. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu ...

Gao set the pace early as the seventh pairing out of 15, with a huge cheer that seemed to echo from the depths of the National Speed Skating Oval greeting him as he stood on the start line.