So, let me see if this works. What is the radius of a short-track? What about the angle? From the picture of Apolo above, I get about 33 degrees 0. Using these values, I get a speed of:. This is the part where I discuss why the speed was too great. I originally used the 25 meter radius and calculated a speed of around 42 mph. I will leave this part in here even though it is incorrect. Clearly, this is way too fast. Is the angle the problem? Is it because he is pushing on the ice with his hand?
What about the radius? The problem must be with one of my assumptions. This would make a difference. Now I guess I will have to calculate that. You should give me some credit for knowing something was wrong. According to commenter Milan, the radius is around 8. You can take off some points in my internet looking-up scores. This gives a speed of 24 mph — that I am much happier with.
I will fix the figures above. Check out this image of Apolo apparently, it is not Apollo. How about I start with a force diagram? Rhett Allain is an associate professor of physics at Southeastern Louisiana University. He enjoys teaching and talking about physics. Short track speed skaters on ice go about 31mph 50kph but can reach speeds in excess of 35 mph 56kph.
The fastest ice speed skater reached Experts say that the short track is a good fit for athletes between and cm and that it could be a more favorable event for Asian players than Western players. Because the small body is advantageous when you turn the corner, the Asian people are more advantageous in the short track speed skating game. Thirty-one years ago, Calgary was the place where she began an Olympic journey that ended with five gold medals and one bronze won over three Winter Games.
But the simplest explanation is probably just that the Dutch are really good at speed skating because the sport is extremely popular in the country and there is a positive feedback loop. Dutch children see Dutch athletes dominating at the Olympics and grow up wanting to be just like them.
NHL players can reach speeds in excess of 20 miles 32 km per hour on the ice. Some speed skaters have been clocked at over 30 miles 48 km per hour! What makes one player faster than another? Let's move to Ohno won bronze in the m, behind Ahn Hyun Soo of Korea, who gold. Now, most would say that the race was clean, that Ohno was simply beat in that race by the faster skater. However, it will never be confirmed as to whether or not the two Koreans, Hyun Soo and teammate Lee Ho-Suk, played a team race and ganged up on Ohno, a feat that would be impossible in normal speed skating.
Ohno was later eliminated in the semifinal of the m for simply slipping. Now that is something that could've happened in speed skating, and something like that cannot be defended.
Ohno simply lost. And in the m, Ohno simply won. In what he dubbed the "perfect race," Ohno blasted out of the start block and led from wire-to-wire in his first non-controversial Olympic gold.
No one can argue it. No one can legitimately protest it. When an athlete is perfection, he is going to win. Ohno later powered his team to bronze in the m relay, moving past Italy's Nicolai Rodriguez to claim a legitimate bronze, behind the winning Korean team and Canada, who won the silver. All in all, most, if not all, if one believes the m to be a non-team race, of Ohno's races and medals in were non-controversial.
In , Ohno formed himself into the fittest, quickest athlete he could possibly be. It showed, as Ohno's ability to pass other skaters was definitely improved.
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