How to Use speed skating in a Sentence
speed skating
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There is much more to speed skating than meets the eye.
—Chris Ochsner, kansascity, 19 Feb. 2018
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There are two types of speed skating: long track and short track.
—Alexa Tucker, SELF, 12 Feb. 2018
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The hockey may have been indoors, but the speed skating events were not.
—Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2020
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The speed skaters are elite, and some of them will make the transition to speed skating on ice for the Winter Olympics.
—Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 6 July 2022
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And there are plenty of places to practice speed skating, with 20 long track ice rinks.
—Alana Abramson, Time, 14 Feb. 2018
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Bonnie Blair has five gold medals from speed skating as well.
—Chris Chavez, SI.com, 14 Feb. 2018
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Members of Team USA’s men’s and women’s long track speed skating teams aim to get on the podium in 2018.
—Jennifer Calfas, Time, 20 Dec. 2017
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Short track speed skating first debuted as a full Olympic sport at the 1992 Winter Games in France.
—Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE.com, 20 Dec. 2021
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Renee Hildebrand, the coach of the U.S. inline speed skating team said about the huge dining hall that was about the size of one and a half soccer fields.
—Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
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But Couric was at least right about the Netherlands’ dominance in speed skating.
—Alana Abramson, Time, 14 Feb. 2018
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There's speed skating, bobsled, even the ski jump, all of which are high speed and just one bad lean away from a dramatic crash.
—Luke Darby, GQ, 24 Feb. 2018
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But not all the videos showing up between clips of ice hockey and speed skating were pro-China.
—Morgan Meaker, Wired, 11 Feb. 2022
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Krueger won the medal in the men's 1,000-meter short track speed skating competition.
—Cheryl Wray, AL.com, 18 Feb. 2018
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In Poland, ski jumping is probably one of the biggest sports, speed skating in the Netherlands.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2018
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Of its 53 medals, 42 have come in short-track speedskating, nine in long-track speed skating and two in figure skating.
—JerÉ Longman and Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2018
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Emery Lehman also represented the U.S. on the ice, winning a bronze team medal in speed skating.
—Jacob Gurvis, Sun Sentinel, 29 Dec. 2022
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Pence then watched speed skating with his wife before boarding Air Force Two to return home.
—Author: Ashley Parker, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2018
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Another cool first-time event is mass start speed skating.
—Aaron Goldfarb, Esquire, 9 Feb. 2018
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In Ohno’s own sport of short track speed skating, anything can go wrong in the jostling for position and the tiny margins of victory.
—Issy Ronald, CNN, 8 Aug. 2024
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In second place is Sweden, which has taken gold in men's moguls freestyle skiing and men's speed skating.
—Grayson Quay, The Week, 6 Feb. 2022
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The venues in Gangneung, a city on South Korea's east coast, are all indoors, hosts to hockey, figure skating, speed skating and the like.
—Barry Svrluga, chicagotribune.com, 14 Feb. 2018
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Not just on the podium, either; team USA athletes competing in about half of the events, from track and field to soccer to speed skating, wear a Nike kit.
—Peter Rubin, Wired, 5 Feb. 2020
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On the surface, Olympic ski jumping looks every bit as easy to score as speed skating or cross-country skiing.
—Dan Gartland, SI.com, 13 Feb. 2018
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Alvarez’s body of work—a combination of speed skating and baseball is just plain wild.
—Sean Gregory / Tokyo, Time, 21 July 2021
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What to Consider These recreational skates aren’t the best fit for dancing, speed skating, or tricks.
—Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2023
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Hockey and speed skating and figure skating all point to the reality of the pond—frozen over, sturdy enough to hold a human body.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2026
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Plus, curling, freestyle skiing and speed skating all have medal events.
—Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 20 Feb. 2026
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Jordan Stolz aims for a third gold in speed skating.
—Alex Connor, USA Today, 19 Feb. 2026
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Sharing the venue with short track speed skating doesn’t help, since speed skaters like the ice harder and colder.
—Alice Park, Time, 17 Feb. 2026
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While on-ice cameras have long been part of speed skating and hockey, Cowan has helped create the niche for figure skating.
—Colleen Barry, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2026
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