Long track skating has been a staple since the first Winter Olympics in 1924. Short track made its Olympic debut in 1994. The two are fundamentally ... In individual long track speed skating events, ...

Every week, Talking Points gives you a worksheet to practise your reading comprehension with exercises about the story we’ve written. In mainland China, speed skater Sidney Chu is known for ...

Colombia’s Pedro Causil on Monday became the first ever South American to take part in the speed skating finals of the Winter Olympic. Causil’s start at the 500 meters sprint in Pyeongchang wasn’t ...