Sentence examples for speed skating is from inspiring English sources

If speed skating is more your thing, check out the huge circuits at Lagoa and the Maracana Stadium in Tijuca.

Few women come to the league with Ms. Prince's confidence or expertise: roller speed skating is part of her exercise routine.

Speed skating is a highly technical sport in which competitors want to be able to "feel" the ice and therefore have as little as possible between its surface and the nerve endings of their feet.

Long-track speed skating is, of course, a tough sport, but the athletes tend to have a regal, sometimes even languid look about them as they glide around the big oval.

The subsequent messages, described as "pretty unpleasant" and "unsavoury" by British officials, were deleted, but are believed to have originated from Korea, where the sport of short-track speed skating is a national obsession.

Speed skating is the exception.

The comeback story in speed skating was Norwegian Johann Olav Koss.

Enke's switch from figure skating to speed skating was relatively easy, and she proved to be a natural speed skater.

The 39-year-old, an Olympic medal winner in cycling and speed skating, was allowed to establish a lead of 40 seconds, but the peloton hauled her back with about 5km to go on the last of the 10 laps of the 14km course.

Only once since short track speed skating was officially introduced to the Olympic programme, in 1992, has a skater who was not part of a relay team won an individual medal.

The IOC also required that the long-track speed skating be done indoors.