If Top Gun and F1 had *** kid. It might look like short track speed skating. *** lot of people call it NASCAR on ice. Short track, definitely you don't ever know what's going to happen. The track is 111 m, 4 to 8 people, depending on the race on the line.

Training and practice sessions were underway a day ahead of the opening ceremony of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics as mixed doubles curling round robin play and preliminary round women's ice hockey matches began.