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5 Olympic Records Set in Beijing
The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will be tough to top in Milan, with new records set in figure skating, snowboarding and speed skating.
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Team USA's Brittany Bowe, Kimi Goetz Headline Women's Speed Skating 1000m Final
Team USA‘s Brittany Bowe and Kimi Goetz will headline the women’s speed skating 1000-meter finals at the 2022 Winter Olympics Thursday.
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Norway Wins Gold in Men's Speedskating Team Pursuit, USA Takes Bronze
Norway won the gold medal in men’s speedskating team pursuit in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. The ROC took the silver and the USA took the bronze.
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Canada Wins Gold, Sets Record in Women's Speedskating Team Pursuit
Canada won the gold medal for women’s speed skating team pursuit at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Japan won silver and Netherlands won bronze.
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Team USA Looks to Grab Women's 500m Medal in Speed Skating
Team USA hasn’t won a medal in speed skating women’s 500m since the 1994 Lillehammer Games when American Bonnie Blair won her third gold in the event. Three Americans will look to change that at the Beijing Games. Here’s everything you need to know about the 500m, who to watch and more: The speed skating women’s 500m gets underway...
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Dutch Speed Skater Ireen Wuest: the Ageless Wonder
Dutch speed skater Ireen Wüst is leaving her mark on the sport of speed skating.
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‘It's Definitely Heartbreaking,' Kristen Santos Says of Speed Skating Crash
Kristen Santos was in medal position until she was taken out, proving to herself she belongs on the podium.
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Having Raced Around Globe to Beijing, US Speedskater Casey Dawson Says He'll Compete in 1500m
After rushing and racing millions of meters across the globe, U.S. speedskater Casey Dawson can now focus on the 1,500 that matter the most.
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Move Over, Michael Phelps: Ireen Wüst Is First to Win Individual Gold at Five Olympics
Ireen Wüst won the 1500m in Olympic-record time and in doing so became the first athlete to win individual gold at five Olympics.
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Ireen Wüst Wins Gold, Sets Olympic Record for 1500m
Speed skater Ireen Wüst of the Netherlands set an Olympic record in the women’s 1500m final Monday morning en route to winning her sixth gold Olympic medal and 12th Olympic medal overall. Wüst is now tied with Norwegian cross country skier Bjørn Dæhlie for the third-most Olympic medals of any Winter Olympian, male or female. In her fifth Olympic...
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Netherlands Take Gold and Bronze in Women's 1500m Speed Skating, USA's Brittany Bowe 10th
Ireen Wüst won gold in women’s 1500m speed skating, while Team USA’s Brittany Bowe placed 10th
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U.S. Speed Skater Casey Dawson Tests Positive for COVID-19, Won't Race 5000m
The 21-year-old speed skater announced on Instagram that he will not compete on Sunday.
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U.S. Speed Skater Casey Dawson Won't Race 5000m Due to COVID-19, Hopeful for Team Pursuit
American speed skater Casey Dawson announced on Instagram that he won’t compete in the Men’s 5000m due to COVID-19.
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Meet New England's Winter Olympians
A list of Team USA athletes competing in the Beijing Olympics with ties to Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Connecticut and Rhode Island
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Speed Skating But Were Afraid to Ask
Maame Biney and Erin Jackson explain the differences between short track and long track speedskating and a bunch of other things you probably never knew about their sport.
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10 Questions for U.S. Speedskater Andrew Heo
Andrew Heo has plenty of experience on the speed skating track, including being on three World Cup teams. But what’s his hype song? NBC10 Philadelphia reporter Steven Fisher asks the Olympic hopeful 10 questions.
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Erin Jackson Becomes 1st Black American Woman to Win Speedskating World Cup
In 2018, Jackson became the first Black woman to qualify for the U.S. Olympic long-track speedskating team after being on the ice for only four months.
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Eddy Alvarez: An Honor to Hold Flag His Family ‘Left Their Country For'
The Team USA athlete explained what it was like to be an American flag bearer alongside Sue Bird. “It’s a symbol of liberty, a symbol of opportunity—one that my family needed and left their country for,” Alvarez said. “I was very honored to stand with that flag.”
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South Korea Wins Its First Speedskating Gold at Pyeongchang Olympics
In a late sprint to the finish, Lee Seung-hoon clinched the host country’s first speedskating gold medal of the Pyeongchang Olympics. Seung-hoon was the favorite to win the event, and his teammate Chung Jae-Won’s assistance with pacing locked the five-time Olympic medalist into a podium finish.