A cultural icon on thin ice. Since its official founding in 1909, the Elfstedentocht has only been held 15 times, with the most recent in 1997. In the decades since, there have been several ...

Speed skating is a winter sport that, as the name implies, puts racing on the ice. Skaters sprint around an oval-shaped rink, hoping to claim victory as an individual or as part of a team relay.

Strap on your blades; it's going to be a bumpy ride. Somewhere between Olympic event and "Jackass" stunt is Red Bull's Crashed Ice skating race series. Racers scream down a twisty, downhill ...

T he Netherlands relived the glory of its iconic Elfstedentocht ice-skating race on Friday, even as climate change makes a real-life edition increasingly unlikely. The Dutch public broadcaster NOS ...

Missing the cold, the Dutch relive highs and lows of famed skating race 40 years on Skaters pass a windmill at the village of Birdaard, northern Netherlands during the "Elfstedentocht" (eleven ...

Catch up on all the Olympic speed skating lingo with this glossary — definitions for key terms, techniques, race formats, and scoring used in competition. ... Competitors must skate outside the blocks ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- Clean Lakes Alliance's Frozen Assets Festival is adding an ice skating option to its Frozen Assets 5K Run/Walk. The top three men and women finishers in the run/walk as well as the ...