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Speed Skating

1. Includes aggressive, artistic, downhill, hockey, roller dance, roller derby, slalom, and speed skating events. (Web site)
2. Speed skating or speedskating is a form of skating in which the competitors attempt to travel a certain distance as quickly as possible on skates.
3. The biathlon, cross-country, Nordic skiing, and short-track speed skating all have new events. (Web site)
4. The eight sports categorized as ice sports are: bobsled, luge, skeleton, ice hockey, figure skating, speed skating, short track speed skating and curling.
5. In addition to the outdoor events, the Canadian Olympic committee will also have indoor facilities set up for events like curling and speed skating.

Figure Skating

1. The international governing body of speed skating, short track speed skating, figure skating, and synchronized skating.
2. The ISU, however, remains the world governing body for both speed skating and figure skating. (Web site)
3. Speed skating soon becomes the first form of skating to become a sport, beating out figure skating and ice hockey. (Web site)

Inline Speed

1. In particular, indoor inline speed skating. (Web site)
2. Related sports are short track speed skating and inline speed skating. History origins in a.o.
3. We are inline skaters and can answer your inline speed skating questions. Motion Skate carries boots from Bont, Mogema, Hyper, Simmons, and Verducci. (Web site)

Short Track

1. The first known competition took place in 1909. Short track speed skating became part of the International Skating Union in 1967. (Web site)
2. Canadians will get the opportunity to see the exciting sport of short track speed skating when Montreal hosts the world championships.

Track Speed

1. Hickok Sports: Short track speed skating rules.
2. Short track speed skating is a form of ice skating akin to speed skating.
3. Short track speed skating is a highly competitive, physically challenging, and often-dangerous sport.

Speeds

1. At the 2002 Winter Olympics, ten speed skating events were contested.
2. Special Olympics Wisconsin also offers speed skating that follows the Unified Sports model.
3. Special Olympics speed skating has been the recipients of outstanding support from the world's premiere speed skaters.
4. At the 1932 Olympic Winter Games, speed skating events were conducted in mass start form.

Quad Speed

1. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, inline speed skating, and quad speed skating.
2. Types of speedskating are long track speedskating, short track speedskating, inline speedskating, and quad speed skating. (Web site)

Olympic

1. Netherlands founding of ISU (IEV) development of the competitions Speed skating is a Winter Olympic Games medal sport.
2. Inline Speed Skating was one of the sports reviewed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to be included in the 2012 Olympic Games.
3. Bonnie Blair, the most famous woman in speed skating history, lived in Butte and trained at the Center during her Olympic career.

Long Track

1. In long track speed skating, only clap skates are used in competition above recreational level. (Web site)
2. The team pursuit is the only team event in long track speed skating and is skated by teams of three skaters. (Web site)
3. Long track ice is the fastest and the most graceful of the speed skating disciplines. Skaters can reach 35 mph for the shorter distances.

Oval Track

1. Speed skating consists of a race around an oval track. The fastest skater wins the competition.
2. In short-track speed skating, competitors squeeze into a tight oval track measuring just 111 m (364 ft) around. (Web site)
3. Fabris won the men-s 1,500 meters speed skating race in an event that was expected to be overshadowed by the Hedrick-Davis feud.

Hockey

1. Includes aggressive, artistic, fitness, roller hockey, recreational, and speed skating.
2. Roues roller vitesse course entrainement hockey speed skating rollerskis. (Web site)
3. A regular staff writer for Fitness and Speed Skating Times, Publow makes his home in Ottawa, Ontario. (Web site)
4. For every day use or for traveling to competition. gear bags for Roller Hockey Inline Speed Skating.

Sports

1. Inline speed skating is the sport of racing on inline skates. (Web site)
2. First of all, you can find a lot of speed skating results here.
3. Makers of handmade standard and custom speed skating boots for ice and inline.
4. Some of the sports featured are speed skating, skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, dog-sledding, and lots more. (Web site)

Jumping

1. Professional skaters gave exhibitions in barrel jumping, speed skating, and figure skating. (Web site)
2. The sports are luge , speed skating , bobsledding , ski jumping , and alpine skiing .

Skating Equipment

1. All profits from the sales of any and all speed skating equipment are invested back into the association and its athletes.
2. Inline speed skating equipment including wheels, bearings, frames, and boots by Bont.
3. If you don't know what I'm talking about at all, there's a great wikipedia article about inline speed skating. (Web site)
4. Terry won the national championships this past year and is an amazing athlete. He also earned two national medals with Mike Tanner of NEO Speed Skating.

Long-Track Speed

1. Dutch athletes excel in outdoor sports, with the exception of indoor speed skating. (Web site)
2. Long-track speed skating takes place on a 400 meter oval, and distances of races range from 500 to 10,000 meters.
3. John, B.C., won gold Saturday in long-track speed skating at the Canadian single distance championships.
4. Cornerstone will be hosting our own meet in conjunction with U.S.Speedskating and the Wisconsin Speed Skating Association on Saturday, October 14th, 2006.

Competition

1. Contains speed skating details of events and results.
2. Information and competition results for international speed skating. (Web site)
3. Offers results from recent ice speed skating competitions. (Web site)
4. Presents accounts of Olympic speed skating competition beginning in 1924.
5. New events on the programme included ice dancing and the men's 1000m in speed skating. (Web site)

Skating World

1. Wennemars won a bronze medal for the Netherlands in the 1,000-meter speed skating.
2. This is Speed skating world. Our Speed skating magazine, for play Speed skating, are very beautiful.
3. Canada wins two relay bronze at short track speed skating World Cup.
4. Online and phone ordering.www.adamsinline.com - [cache] - Open Directory, Ask Skatetrix For artistic and speed skating, off and on ice.

Short-Track Speed

1. The Palavela also hosted the European short-track speed skating championships this month, drawing full crowds for a sport with little following in Italy.
2. Short-track speed skating is the fastest sport on ice skates and is one of the fastest Winter Sports in Canada.
3. Two new sports, short-track speed skating and freestyle skiing, were on the program for the first time.

Skating Team

1. This is the home of our newest speed skating club. (Web site)
2. Tallahassee Florida inline speed skating team.
3. Inline speed skating races are held in a variety of formats and on a variety of surfaces. (Web site)
4. Links are here to our speed skating team and other Chicago area skater sites. (Web site)

Ice

1. Dutch Olympic ice speed skating champion Marianne Timmer was born in Sappemeer, Netherlands on October 3, 1974.
2. Although mainly used for non-competitive touring, they are sometimes used in marathon speed skating races on natural ice. (Web site)

Skating Events

1. Speed skating events have different distances. (Web site)
2. Speed Skating events take place in Torino.
3. Heiden won Gold Medals in all five men's speed skating events, setting two world records and five Olympic records.

Olympic Sports

1. Men's speed skating has been an Olympic sport since the first Winter Games in 1924. (Web site)
2. Speed skating is truly a sport for all ages and ability levels. (Web site)
3. Ice Speedskating Ice Speed Skating Speed skating is primarily percieved as an Olympic sport only.
4. Sports demonstrations featured a speed skating race, softball pitching, footbag and gymnastics. (Web site)
5. CBC Sports Online breaks down the medal favourites in speed skating.

Olympic Speed

1. Clapskates and speed skating accessories.
2. Calgary: 400-meter indoor Olympic speed skating oval.
3. Indoors is where most get their first introduction to speed skating.
4. All the athletes shown below compete in speed skating, most in Torino.
5. Speed skating is currently conducted on ovals with artificial ice.

Vancouver

1. The sporting events held in Vancouver include ice hockey, curling, figure skating, short track speed skating.
2. Vancouver will host the opening and closing ceremonies and most events considered ice sports, like ice hockey, figure skating and speed skating. (Web site)

Sport

1. Other exciting Winter Sport Olympic events are snowboarding events, ice hockey, short track speed skating, luge, skeleton and Nordic combined.
2. Outdoor sports like downhill skiing, cross-country skiing, figure skating, speed skating, and indoor sports like hockey and ice skating.
3. Since only the roller skates are required, speed skating is an affordable sport which can be practiced by everybody.

Demonstration Events

1. Curling, freestyle skiing, short track speed skating and Paralympic skiing were demonstration events.
2. The Canucks' former arena, Pacific Coliseum, will also be a venue during the games, hosting figure skating and short track speed skating.

Nordic Events

1. In the "natural ice" era of winter sports, Davos, and the Davos Eisstadion was a mecca for speed skating.
2. The International Winter Sports Week in Chamonix, retro-actively dubbed the 1924 Winter Olympics, contained five speed skating events.
3. Norway and Finland won 27 of the 43 medals available, including all four Nordic events and four of the five speed skating races. (Web site)

Lake Placid

1. Also, of the 33 total medals won by Korean athletes in Winter Olympics events, 30 have been won in short track speed skating events. (Web site)
2. In one of the short track speed skating events, Apolo Anton Ohno was awarded the gold medal after the disqualification of Kim Dong-Sung.
3. Dr. Eric Heiden, winner of 5 gold medals in speed skating at the 1980 Olympic Games in Lake Placid, stands with his medals Friday, Jan.
4. Apolo Ohno Makes U.S. History Apolo Ohno, 27, had been tied at five medals with Eric Heiden, the speed skating star of the 1980 Lake Placid Games in 1980.

First Winter Games

1. Short track speed skating has been a contest at the Winter Olympics since the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France.
2. Team GB will be sending seven short track speed skating athletes to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games in February.
3. Speed skating has been featured as a sport in the Winter Olympics since the first winter games in 1924. (Web site)

Women`s Speed Skating

1. Karin Enke was the top East German performer, taking two gold medals and two silvers in the four women's speed skating events. (Web site)
2. At first, only men raced, but in 1960, four women's speed skating events were held at the Olympic Winter Games in Squaw Valley. (Web site)

Dan Jansen

1. Speed skating might not be one of the top sports in America, but almost everyone knows the incredible story of Dan Jansen. (Web site)
2. They win bronze medals in four-man bobsleigh, ladies’ figure skating, ladies’ 3000m long-track speed skating, men’s 500m short-track speed skating. (Web site)

Taekwondo

1. South Korea's Olympic teams have also traditionally performed strongly in archery, boxing, judo, short track speed skating, taekwondo, and wrestling.
2. Korea wins gold in the men's 5000m relay in Short Track Speed Skating during the 2006 Winter Olympics.
3. South Korea gained four medals, including a gold in speed skating, while Sweden excelled in the cross country pursuit, taking a gold and bronze.

Olympic History

1. Christa Luding-Rothenburger (GER-cycling and speed skating) made Olympic history by winning a silver medal in cycling. (Web site)
2. Joey Cheek picked up speed skating after meeting and watching neighborhood friend, Bryan Anderson skate around the neighborhood training for Nationals. (Web site)

Gold Medal

1. Speed skater Eric Heiden equalled Lidia Skoblikova 's achievement from 1964 by winning all speed skating events.
2. Linden was a skilled athlete; despite hockey being his top priority, he also participated in baseball, golf, volleyball, basketball, and speed skating.
3. Enrico Fabris gave the host nation another gold medal in speed skating by winning the men's 1500 metres. (Web site)
4. If you are still frustrated, find inspiration in the story of Chris Witty, winner of the Gold Medal in 1000 meter speed skating in the 1998 Winter Olympics. (Web site)

Live Medal Presentations

1. Live medal presentations in short track speed skating (ladies' 3,000 m relay) and ladies' freestyle skiing aerials.
2. SPEED SKATING There are twelve speed skating medal events, all of which will take place at the Richmond Olympic Oval. (Web site)

Inline Speed Skating

1. Related sports are short track speed skating and inline speed skating.
2. Types of Speed Skating are long track ice speed skating, short track speed skating, inline speed skating and quad speed skating.
3. Inline speed skating is the sport of racing on inline skates (Roller sports) It is often called inline racing by participants.
4. Information about roller hockey, speed skating, shops, local clubs, skating lessons, weekly group skates, and places to skate in France.
5. Inline skating Main article: Inline speed skating An inline skating race.

#2010 Winter Olympics

1. Plans for international size ice at the Pacific Coliseum and practice facilities for figure skating and short track speed skating have not changed. (Web site)
2. It has also been chosen as the venue for figure skating and short track speed skating in the 2010 Winter Olympics. (Web site)

Demonstration Sport

1. In 1988 short track speed skating was just a demonstration sport and no medals were awarded.
2. The Olympic Oval in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is a covered speed skating oval built for the 1988 Winter Olympics. (Web site)

Long Track Speed Skating

1. Speed skaters Gianni Romme and Marianne Timmer won two gold medals each for the Netherlands; 5 out of 10 titles in speed skating went to the Netherlands.
2. Canada continued collecting Olympic gold medals with a win in the men's long-track speed skating team pursuit.

Athletes

1. Several athletes won two gold medals, such as Petra Kronberger (skiing), Bonnie Blair, Gunda Niemann (both speed skating) and Kim Ki-Hoon (short track). (Web site)
2. Other roller skating sports include speed skating, figure skating and roller derby. (Web site)
3. Gaétan Boucher and Karin Enke each won two gold medals in speed skating, while East German women win all but 3 of the 12 medals in the sport.
4. Johann Olav Koss of Norway won three gold medals and swept the distance speed skating events.

First Winter Olympics

1. In 1992, short track speed skating was accepted as an Olympic sport. (Web site)
2. Long-track speed skating was included in the first Winter Olympics in 1924; short-track skating was added in 1992. (Web site)

Demonstration Sports

1. Some of these events, such as luge, short track speed skating, and freestyle skiing have earned a permanent spot on the Olympic programme. (Web site)
2. Australia also participated in the demonstration sports of mogul freestyle skiing and short track speed skating. (Web site)

Freestyle Skiing

1. These include the 'winter' sports of alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, figure skating, freestyle skiing, snowboarding, speed skating and biathlon.
2. The sports on hand include snowboarding, skiing, figure skating, speed skating, bobsledding and more. (Web site)

Ski Jumping

1. The competition sports included alpine skiing, bobsled, figure skating, ice hockey, Nordic skiing, ski jumping, speed skating, and skeleton. (Web site)
2. Cross-country skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, Nordic combined, ski jumping, and speed skating have been competed at every Winter Olympics since 1924.
3. Some of these events, such as luge, short track speed skating, and freestyle skiing have earned a permanent spot on the Olympic program. (Web site)
4. Australians were in action in alpine skiing, biathlon, bobsleigh, cross-country skiing and speed skating.

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