Learn how Olympic speed skating works—event formats, race distances, elimination rounds, mass start rules, and how skaters advance to medal contention at the Winter Games.

Growing up in sunny Florida, Erin Jackson, 33, said she had no plans to become a history-making winter athlete.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 26: Jutta Leerdam attends Max's "Paul American" premiere on March 26, 2025 in New York City. “I was watching ‘Miracle’ and I listened from the coach when he said, ‘We don’t ...

Canada’s short track speed skating team for the Milano Cortina Olympic Games was announced on Wednesday, and the 10-athlete ...

Japanese speed skater Yukino Yoshida booked her spot in the women's 500 meters at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics as she po ...

The Speed Skating World Cup continues December 12-14 at the Vikingskipet in Hamar, Norway, marking the last of four events in ...

Erin Jackson became the first Black woman to win a gold medal in an individual event at the Winter Olympics in Beijing in 2022. Her path to get there is a Hollywood script that would be returned and ...

Japan's Miho Takagi won the women's 1,000 meters at a speed skating World Cup event on Saturday as the Beijing Olympics gold ...

KEARNS, Utah (WFLA) – Star long track speed skater Brittany Bowe, from Ocala, Fla., is not shy about her goals for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan. She wants to come home with a gold medal. “My ...

Olympian Nick Pearson gives an ABC News reporter a lesson on how to speed skate. KEARNS, Utah <br/> Feb. 18, 2010&#151; -- Putting on a speed skating suit is sort of like squeezing a glove over a foot ...

Jake-Paul's fiancée Jutta Leerdam, 26, is an accomplished speed skater from The Netherlands who won a silver medal at the ...