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 ...

The blades on a short track speed skating skate aren't right in the middle — they're off centre, placed to the left, so that the boot doesn't touch the ice when the skaters lean in on the curves.