Learn how Olympic speed skating works — event formats, race distances, elimination rounds, mass start rules, and how skaters advance to medal contention at the Winter Games.

He’s broken an Olympic record, won two gold medals and a silver, but Jordan Stolz isn’t done in Milan just yet. Stolz is set to finish out his Olympics with the mass start speed skating competition ...

The U.S. hasn't seen a multi-distanced, medal-contending racer like that in decades, until Stolz burst on to the scene in the past three years after his Olympic debut in Beijing in 2022. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From long track to short track, Team Pursuit, and mass start races, Olympic speed skating tests speed, strategy, and skill on ice.

American speed skater Jordan Stolz was hoping to become the first man in 32 years to leave an Olympics with three gold medals in long track speed skating. He finished the 2026 Milan Cortina Games one ...

LAKE PLACID – Quietly and unobtrusively, an orange truck with an attached water tank drove slowly around the Olympic Oval Friday, Dec. 8, starting the process of making ice for another speed and ...

Wisconsin native Jordan Stolz fell short of becoming the first man since 1994 to win three speedskating golds at a single Olympics, finishing fourth in the mass start. Stolz still leaves the 2026 ...