If you watch a bit of short track speed skating, the need for gloves quickly becomes apparent. When the skaters go to make passes or careen around a turn, they need the gloves to keep from cutting their hands due to incidental contact with other skaters’ blades.
There’s more to the gloves than just safety, though. Since the skaters’ hands often touch the ice during turns, they need hard fingertip coverings that won’t add friction and slow them down. The tips can be made of any material as long as it’s hard and smooth, but you’ve got to give American skater Apolo Ohno some style points for the gold-tipped left glove he broke out last weekend
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