My new favorite athlete might be Nils van der Poel. Heck, he might also be my favorite writer. After winning the Olympic gold medal in the 5000m and 10,000m (where he ...

To prepare for competition, athletes utilize training opportunities that extend well beyond the Olympic Oval. Part of the ...

When Taylor Burdekin was training with the US Speed Skating team in Salt Lake City nearly a decade ago, her coach was Lin Lin Sun. Sun, who won a gold medal in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver as ...

Social psychologists call it the better-than-average effect: According to a broad range of studies, most of us will rate ourselves as above average in skill, effort ...

After heartbreak in Beijing, short track speed skater Kristen Santos-Griswold thought about hanging up her skates for good.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - Last summer, we introduced you to Paige Nodarse, an inline speed skater from Tallahassee who represented the United States at the World Skate Games. Nodarse is back for year ...

Olympian Nick Pearson gives an ABC News reporter a lesson on how to speed skate. KEARNS, Utah <br/> Feb. 18, 2010&#151; -- Putting on a speed skating suit is sort of like squeezing a glove over a foot ...

Qitaihe, a city known as the "City of Olympic Champions" in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, welcomed more than 200 new students from across the country to China's first 12-year short track ...

He came in chasing a podium. He left as a world champion. Anandkumar Velkumar, a 22-year-old speed skater from Chennai, did what very few Indian athletes have even dared to dream of. At the World ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Hawaii is not well represented at the Winter Olympics, but one local boy is doing his part with five games already under his belt and another ahead as a coach for Team USA’s ...

Skating runs in Jenison native Abby Appel's family. The 21-year-old is the daughter of national and internationally-competing inline speed skaters, and from September 3 to 23, Abby will represent Team ...