The blade is called a clap.
Go to: http://visual.merriam-webster.com/images/sports-games/winter-sports/speed-skating/speed-skates.jpg for a great image on clap skates and fixed blades.
no, one track is short and the other is long (its common sense)
Ice skaters skate on frozen lakes/ponds/rinks Skateboarders skate anywhere! Even frozen ponds and lakes. Hey, it's possible! They skate at skate parks, regular parks, stairs, rails, ramps, benches, anywhere! :)
Short track is in a hockey rink, and consists of a 111m oval. Long track you have to have a specially made 400m track, usually outdoors.
That depends on wether your talking about short track or long track.
Richmond has a Long Track 400m speed skating oval, created for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
There is no uniform, however in short track speed skating you cannot have any skin showing besides your face. In long track you only have to wear skates.
she started short track speed skating when she was 10 yrs. old.
Sort of... Every where in the world, while short track speed skating you need to wear a helmet. Where as Olympic style Long track, doesn't usually mass start long track doesn't either, unless your in quebec, where you do need one.
There is no minimum age. As long as you can skate, you can speed skate. Honestly, if your 1 years old, but yo can stand on skates and move forward... You could sign up for your local speed skating club.
Speed skating (long track and short track), ice hockey, and figure skating.
In speed skating, you do what called a relay. One person is skating on the track at a time, and when they finish a pre-determined number of laps, a team mate comes out onto the track in front of the skater, and the skater that is finishing his laps, pushes the new skater. That skater then goes and skates his laps and so on. There are different distances of relays. Yourger skaters might skate a 1500m relay. Teenagers might do a 3km relay. And when you get into distance relays in long track, you could do a marathon relay (42km).
37. 32 men and 5 women have competed in biathlon, cross country skiing, long track speed skating, and short track speed skating for Mongolia. They have won no medals.