Learn how Olympic speed skating works — event formats, race distances, elimination rounds, mass start rules, and how skaters ...

Speed is everything in many Winter Olympics events, but for speed skaters, it's quite literally the name of the game. Whether they are competing in the shortest event at the Olympics or the longest, ...

A chaotic event that resembles short track more closely than any of the other speed skating races, the mass start typically features between 16 and 24 skaters racing around the oval in a pack. The 16 ...