Speed Skating
Speed Skating. This is the events where they race around the ice track, and they have longer blades for smoother skating, better traction and more speed.
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high jump, blowing the longest and thats it
28, all in figure skating events.
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Eric Heiden won 5 gold medals in all 5 speed skating events at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
In the Olympics and most related events, it requires a finish in the top three. Some events award medals to other places.
Some Olympic events include basketball, baseball, hockey, and swimming. Other invents include skiing, skating, track and field events, and bobsledding.
There are 4 figure skating events: Men's Singles, Woman's Singles, Pairs, and Ice Dancing. With 3 medals( Gold, Silver, Bronze) for each of those events there are 12.
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Events that have been competed since the first Winter Olympics in 1924: 1) Men's singles figure skating. 2) Women's singles figure skating. 3) Mixed pairs figure skating. 4) Four man bobsleigh. 5) Men's ice hockey. 6) Men's 50 km cross country skiing. 7) Nordic combined. 8) Men's normal hill ski jumping. 9) Men's 500 meter speed skating. 10) Men's 1500 meter speed skating. 11) Men's 5000 meter speed skating. 12) Men's 10000 meter speed skating. Both figure skating and ice hockey were competed before the start of the Winter Olympics in 1924. Ice hockey debuted at the 1920 Summer Games in Antwerp and figure skating debuted at the 1908 Summer Games in London. Once the Winter Olympics were established, both switched from the Summer Games to the Winter Games.