On February 11, in the men's 10,000 meters of speed skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Sweden's Van der Boulevard broke the world record held by himself with a time of 12 minutes 30.74 seconds and won the championship, which was also the first world record born by the "Ice Ribbon" of the Chinese National Speed Skating Hall.
France's Margot Bock trains on a snowmobile on Feb. 11.
Hungary's Liu Shao'ang (first from left) led the semifinals of the men's short track speed skating 1500m on February 9.