Oh-no! Slam! Bang! Apolo hits ice and loses the gold
Just as the cloud of skating controversy was dispersing from the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics, along came more mind-boggling, unforeseeable medal results and vocal disbelief from a stunned crowd.

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Short-track skating is faster and tighter It's still the kid brother of a better-known winter sport. Elegant, flowing strokes around a big, oval track? No, that's long-track speedskating. Celebrity spectators Dan Jansen and Bonnie Blair? No, those are long-track Olympic stars.

Short-track speedskating Short-track speedskating is the exciting, fast, rowdy (some say vulgar) younger cousin of long track.

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Short-track speedskating medalists in Nagano