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J.R. Celski
Short-track speedskaters get 2nd-class treatment
Short-track speedskaters get 2nd-class treatment

SOCHI, Russia — It's never easy being the youngest. But what if you had to live up to the standards of your much older and established sibling and do it while sharing your room with someone you had little in common with? Then you might have a sense of what it is to be short-track speedskating at the Olympics. When short track begins Monday in Sochi in just its seventh Games, it does so with a bit of second-class citizen status to long-track speedskating, the sport's traditional discipline. To add to the insult, short track races in the Iceberg Skating Palace, where the ice is tailored to the figure skaters it was built to showcase. "It's always been the little...