The concept of speed skating

Speed skating is a kind of ice competition with skates as tools.

It belongs to skating in international sports taxonomy. It refers to the skating competition aimed at competing within a specified distance, referred to as speed skating, which is the official event of the Winter Olympics. Athletes slide on the ice with skates, and the blades of skates cut into the ice to form stable support points. They push the ice alternately with their legs, retract their legs and cut the knife, slide in and coordinate the whole body to slide forward quickly.

Speed skating is a sport with a long history. As early as the 1 1 and12nd centuries, there were records in the early documents of the Netherlands, Britain, Switzerland and some Scandinavian countries about the rapid movement of animal bones tied to their feet on the ice, which was the early embryonic form of skating. Men's and women's speed skating were included in the Winter Olympics in 1924 and 1960 respectively.

Short track speed skating is briefly introduced as follows:

In fact, speed skating is a race against the stopwatch, who is faster, because he skates on his own track, and the result is the final result. Short track speed skating is between people, with tactics, some speed and physical strength. Finally, the scores are scored by ranking. The two skating styles are almost the same, but the competition style is completely different.

The competition mode is as follows:

Generally speaking, each group consists of 2 athletes. In the two tracks, the runner from the inner lane should switch to the outer lane when taxiing to the lane change zone, and the runner from the outer lane should switch to the inner lane. In the lane-changing area, in order to avoid collision between athletes, the debut athletes have the priority to change lanes. If an athlete collides when changing lanes, the inner lane athlete will be disqualified.