Only speed skating will be held on ice not handled by York International.
In one year, speed skating has gone from horse and buggy to bullet train.
During the 1994 Winter Olympics, four of the five distances for men's speed skating received new world records.
Women's speed skating is held as a demonstration event only with competitions over 500m, 1000m and 1500m.
Winter triathlon was promoted to a full event and speed skating was added.
Suddenly, speed skating has come to resemble swimming.
Most years, the world sprint championships of speed skating couldn't sell out a phone booth.
He has little charisma, but his knowledge of speed skating was overwhelming and almost always understandable.
Only two years after short-track speed skating was first introduced as a medal sport, there is some question whether it will remain an Olympic event.
Women's speed skating doesn't begin until next Monday.
He is not related to his speed skating rival Jonny Nilsson.
ROLLER SKATING: Look for the United States to excel in speed skating with Dante Muse and Tony Muse - ranked first and second in the world - leading the charge.
However, besides her speed skating she still studies nursing in Enschede and therefore was eligible to qualify for the 2007 Winter Universiade, which were also held in Turin.
They have trained their bodies and their minds to keep pace with Swedes and Dutchmen and Norwegians who had the national tropism toward speed skating the first time they looked out the window and saw the river had frozen over.
World championship competitions in Nagano and environs in freestyle skiing this week and speed skating the weekend of Feb. 14-16 will provide further opportunities for scrutiny.
Lee is the first Asian to medal in an Olympic 10000m speed skating event.
The same actions apply to grinding, speed, wall riding, skating backward, etc.
Pettit National Ice Center is one of only two indoor speed skating rinks in USA.
This became known as the Norwegian speed skating revolution, and Stein Johnson's methods were soon adopted by other countries.
When she married Jelle Keulen in 1962 and subsequently had three children between 1963 and 1966, her speed skating career seemed to be over.