For the Winter Olympics there are 22 venues that have been or will be used for

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. The first venues were outdoors on natural ice with the last one being held at

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's 1988 venue was the first to be constructed for indoor use. The last venue held outdoors was at the

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in Albertville. Since the 1994 Games, all of the long track speed skating venues have been indoors. Bislett panorama.jpg, Bislett Stadion hosted the speed skating events for the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo. Olympic Oval.jpg, Olympic Oval in Calgary hosted the speed skating events for the 1988 Winter Olympics.

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Speed skating Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors racing, race each other in travelling a certain distance on Ice skate, skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marath ...

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