Variations Short track speed skating has many different distances and variations of competition. There is individual short track racing in different distances, this is when you race against other athletes of the same gender in ta specified distance. Different distance short track skating requires different techniques, tactics and strategies. This is why different skaters might be better at longer distances or shorter ones. There’s also mixed relay racing and normal relay racing. Each country has it’s own team and they compete to be the fastest to complete a larger distance. Relay races are more complicated because there are more people involved, a single team generally has 4 athletes and each one of them is either, racing, preparing, covering or resting. The diagram below shows where each of the skaters would go considering there are 5 teams competing.
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