What Weinstein needed to do, in 1998, was to make the U.S. Olympic team. With the experience of the 1994 trials, he made the U.S. Olympic Nagano team. It is the skating accomplishment of which he is most proud.
"Making the Olympic team was my crowning achievement," Weinstein says. "Even more so than going."
The Long and Short of It
Despite some surface similarities between short and long track racing, a skater must employ a different mentality and strategy for each.
Long track, the traditional Olympic sport, is contested on a 400-meter long oval, where two skaters simultaneously race in his or her own lane. Conversely, short track, which became an Olympic medal sport in 1992, occurs on a 111-meter long ice hockey-sized rink, and involves heats of four skaters. Distances in short track range from 500 meters to 3000 meters, whereas long track includes a 5000 meters and 10000 meters events.
In addition, racers compete against the clock in long track, while they race against one another in short track. Jockeying for position, pacing, and drafting are crucial elements in the latter.
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