MILAN — The short track speed skating competition of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics will begin Tuesday, with the first set of medals to be awarded in the mixed team relay. Korea has won more short track gold medals than anyone in Olympic history with 26, but the powerhouse crashed out of the quarterfinals at the 2022 Beijing Winter Games when the mixed team relay made its debut. The mixed team relay is 2,000 meters long, or 18 laps, and countries will each have two female and two male skaters. They must follow this specific order: female No. 1, female No. 2, male No. 1, male No. 2, female No. 1, female No. 2, male No. 1 and male No. 2. Each skater will cover two and a half laps on the first leg and two laps on the second leg. During the 2025-2026 International Skating Union Short Track World Tour season, four different countries each won a mixed team relay gold medal — Korea, China, Canada and the Netherlands. The Dutch team added two silvers while Korea had one silver and one bronze. The mixed team relay will start with the quarterfinals just before noon at Milano Ice Skating Aren
