Speed skating

Speed skating

Speeed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which individuals race around an ice rink. There are three categories of the sport based on speed and distance they are, short-track speed skating, long-track speed skating and marathon speed skating.

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Speed skating

boots

Sports; Speed skating

Boots in speed skating are usually made of leather they do not have high tops, but give freedom of movement to a skater's ankle. They, of course, have skating blades attached to them.

breakaway

Sports; Speed skating

This is a sprint used by a skater to breakaway from the rest of the skaters and is usually done in the final moments of a race in a sprint to the finish line.

burn out

Sports; Speed skating

This is a fast pace set by one skater in an attempt to exhaust the other skaters.

cadence

Sports; Speed skating

See stride rate.

change in track

Sports; Speed skating

In Olympic skating, skaters must change the lanes of the track that they started in. The skater who begins the race in the inside lane of the track moves to the outside lane when they reach the ...