Speedskating in a sentence

Dupont said the skaters who went to the meet in Fredericton will make up Nunavut’s speedskating team at the 2024 Arctic Winter Games, scheduled for March 10 to 16 in Mat-Su Borough, Alaska.

Peter Joseph Groseclose, meanwhile, won’t be speedskating for two to three weeks to recover from a wound in his foot he sustained in a collision with a Chinese athlete in the men’s 500 meters where he finished fifth on Monday.

Even U.S. Speedskating veteran Joey Mantia, 31, wasn’t on the scene then.

The nation's short-track speedskating community in particular has faced several serious abuse scandals in recent years.

Eric Heiden won five gold medals in speedskating then competed in the Tour de France.

Before Pyeongchang, the U.S. earned a total of 67 Olympic long track speedskating medals, 29 of them gold.

By luck or design, short-track speedskating has created double doses of suspense with its use of replay review, that much-maligned act of self-correction put to increasing use across the spectrum of sports, from football to tennis, baseball to hockey.

Choi Min-jeong of South Korea has moved into the semifinals of the women's 1,000 meters in short-track speedskating at the Pyeongchang Olympics.

Gold medals will be awarded Friday in skeleton, cross country, speedskating and aerials.

Jorien ter Mors has set an Olympic record to win the 1,000 meters at the speedskating Oval, earning a fifth gold medal for the Netherlands in as many events.

Lana Gehring, of suburban Glenview, will be looking to qualify in women’s short track speedskating, which will hold qualification events for the 500-meter and 3,000-meter relay.

Many recent world championships in winter sports, including traditional Korean strengths short and long track speedskating, have had no North Korean entrants at all.

Medals were up for grabs in just three events Monday in Pyeongchang: men’s 500-meter speedskating, men’s large hill team ski jumping, and men’s two-man bobsled.

Miho Takagi became the first Japanese to win an overall speedskating World Cup championship on Sunday.

Norway has defeated defending champion the Netherlands with an Olympic record speedskating race and will face South Korea in the final of the men's team pursuit.

Of the new events making their Olympic debut in Pyeongchang, it would be a surprise if a Canadian wasn’t on the podium in big air snowboarding and the mass start in long-track speedskating.

Rippon’s mother said his first coach had recommended that he switch to speedskating because he had a thick lower body.

S. Speedskating is doing everything they can within their power to make these athletes succeed," says Boutiette.

Still, she’s young, and speedskating is not a sport that favors teenagers — at least not the way figure skating or increasingly snowboarding is known as a young athletes game.

They include world champions Pavel Kulizhnikov and Denis Yuskov, both of whom have previously served bans for failed doping tests, as well as Ruslan Zakharov, who won an Olympic relay gold medal in short-track speedskating in Sochi in 2014.