Former Olympian Zhang Jing is set to lead China’s short track speed skating national training camp this year, which marks the beginning of preparations for the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics.

Both Russia and Belarus have applied to host future major International Skating Union (ISU) events, despite athletes and officials from both countries currently being banned from its competitions.

The Netherlands' Zoe Deltrap completed a clean sweep of short track speed skating gold medals here at the Winter European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF), winning the girls' 1,000 metres and helping her country to victory in the 3,000m mixed relay.

Zoe Deltrap won her second short track speed skating gold medal here at the Winter European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF), coming out on top in the girls' 500 metres.

Italian short track speed skater Arianna Fontana, who retained her 500 metres title at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, says she is "tempted" to extend her career through to Milan-Cortina 2026.

Britain's Elise Christie is set to make a comeback after retiring from short track speed skating with an eye on qualifying for the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games.

Hwang Dae-heon became Olympic champion for the first time as his men’s 1,500 metres success saw South Korea end their search for a first gold medal of the Winter Olympics here.

Chinese short track speed skater Ren Ziwei captured his second gold of the Winter Olympics here after Shaolin Sándor Liu's disqualification saw him snatch the men’s 1,000 metres title.

Short track speed skating was introduced as a demonstration sport at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. It was upgraded to a full Olympic sport at Albertville 1992 and has been part of the Winter Olympics ever since. There were only four short track events in 1992, but the programme was expanded to include six events at Lillehammer 1994 and Nagano 1998, and finally eight events at Salt Lake City 2002. The events are the same for both men and women: 500 metres, 1000m, 1500m, plus the relay event - 5000m for men, 3000m for women. A 2000m mixed team relay was added, and made its debut at Beijing 2022, with host nation China claiming the gold medal.

China delivered home success on the opening day of the Winter Olympics here by taking short track speed skating gold at the Capital Indoor Stadium.

Former short track speed skating star Allison Baver, an Olympic bronze medallist at Vancouver 2010, has pleaded not guilty against nine charges of fraud.

Shim Suk-hee’s bid to make the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing has been shattered after a court rejected the two-time short track speed skating champions appeal against two-month ban.

Olympic short track speed skating medallist Allison Baver is due to appear in court tomorrow facing charges of obtaining $10 million (£7 million/€9 million) in COVID-19 relief payments to, she claimed, help fund a Hollywood film starring Elijah Wood.

Curler Eve Muirhead is set to appear at her fourth Winter Olympic Games as Britain announced its latest athletes selected to compete at Beijing 2022.

The Netherlands set the pace in the women’s team relay on the second day of qualifying at the International Skating Union (ISU) Short Track Speed Skating World Cup leg in their home city of Dordrecht.