The sports use vastly different race formats, track sizes and strategies, with speed skating decided by time and short track unfolding in head-to-head heats.
WASHINGTON — While short track speed skating and speed skating may look similar at first glance, they are run very differently.
Here’s what to know about the key differences, according to Olympic organizers.
How is short track speed skating different from speed skating?
The biggest difference between the two is how the races are run.
Speed skating, or long track, is a race against the clock. Skaters
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