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  • Hockey, curling, and short-track speed-skating are, in my view, the best of the winter offerings.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Second-Best Kind of Olympics 2010

  • Hockey, curling, and short-track speed-skating are, in my view, the best of the winter offerings.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Second-Best Kind of Olympics 2010

  • The club's racers train at the rink twice a week and travel to competitions around the country As rain lashes Flushing Meadows Corona Park on a recent evening, around 30 men, women and children gather inside a bright skating rink at the park's edge for their bi-weekly speed-skating training session.

    Speed Skating for the Fun of It Sophia Hollander 2011

  • Ms. Wolf, who's won every 500-meter women's speed-skating World Cup since 2005, had the fastest single 500-meter time, skating the course in 37.83 seconds during her second run -- a mind-boggling two hundredths of a second faster than Ms. Lee's best time.

    In Surprise Upset, Lee Sang-Hwa Wins Women's 500 Phred Dvorak 2010

  • All the times Tuesday were far slower -- in speed-skating time, at least -- than the current world and Olympic records.

    In Surprise Upset, Lee Sang-Hwa Wins Women's 500 Phred Dvorak 2010

  • SPEED SKATING The title of fastest female on blades these Games went to Lee Sang-Hwa of South Korea Tuesday, in a surprise upset in the women's 500-meter speed-skating race.

    In Surprise Upset, Lee Sang-Hwa Wins Women's 500 Phred Dvorak 2010

  • Ms. Lee's gold continues a strong performance by South Korea's speed-skating team, which has grabbed three medals in the four events held so far -- including a gold in the men's 500-meter race Monday.

    In Surprise Upset, Lee Sang-Hwa Wins Women's 500 Phred Dvorak 2010

  • The U.S. men beat Norway in ice hockey, plus curling, women's super combined, speed-skating and more from Thursday, Feb. 18.

    Day Seven of the Vancouver Olympics 2010

  • Christine Nesbitt of Canada took the gold medal -- the country's third so far -- in women's 1,000-meter speed-skating, in a race that could only be deciphered by high-precision timers and stop-motion cameras.

    Canada's Nesbitt Wins Gold in Women's 1,000-Meter Speed Skating Phred Dvorak 2010

  • Ice Machine Cometh for Speed Skating Getty Images Another headache for Vancouver and Olympic organizers: a broken ice-resurfacing machine at the long-track speed-skating venue.

    Swiss Bank Much Gold In Their Medal Count Darren Everson 2010

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