DETROIT – Most people know the sport of speed skating, skaters racing against the clock, trying to get the best time. But short-track speed skating is different. It’s in the name.
The track is shorter, but also you’re racing against each other over a series of rounds. And things can get hairy sometimes.
“Anything can happen to anyone in the race,” Ryan Piviratto said.
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Piviratto played hockey for ten years. He took his first steps on the ice in Ann Arbor before his family eventually moved. He says it was in Connecticut when he made the change in sport, but he stayed on the ice.
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“Found a club in Connecticut where I started skating,” Piviratto said. “The rest is history.”
A year in, seeing positive results, Piviratto knew he had found his niche and dove in. He even traveled to South Korea to train for the 2018 Olympic games.
Piviratto ended up going to Pyeongchang as an alternate. This time around in Beijing, he’s…
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