2007 USA short track nationals, 500m women's final

[mwtakeru312]

why don't they play golf with buildings, caves etc, why don't they have the same variety there.....oh, they do it's called mini-golf:-)

[Partspare]

Why don't they do this race on a proper 'course' instead of just a short oval? Have some straights, chicanes, rights, lefts, turns of different radius and duration? Open wheel cars do ovals & they do road courses, why don't they have the same variety here?

[barwick11]

Well, there's a lot of answers to that one. It's difficult enough to find a club that has an olympic size rink (100' wide instead of just the normal 85').

Not to mention it's a small sport, nobody would invest the literally millions of dollars it would cost to build a large enough ice surface to do any sort of road-course type track. It would be pretty sweet if some cities or counties up north (WAY north) would flood some walking paths (without trees nearby hopefully) to skate on though.