At the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics Winter Games, Japan made a major breakthrough in speed skating, and had won a good result of 3 golds, 2 silvers and 1 bronze. Japan not only maintained its advantage in short distance projects, but also showed a strong upward trend in medium and long distance projects as well as in team sports, which subverted the situation that the medium and long distance projects have been ruled by Europe and the United States. By looking up materials, analyzing competition video and investigating data of Japanese speed skating on the official website of the Pyeonghang Winter Olympics, the development path of speed skating in Japan and the technical and tactical characteristics of Japanese speed skaters in the competition are summarized, which provides reference suggestions for the development of speed skating in China. The reasons for the rise of Japan's speed skating are: (1) speed skating infrastructure construction; (2) strategic cooperation in"send out"and"bring in"with the speed skating power of the Netherlands; (3)"learning from each other"tactic. |