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| #3393805 in Books | Scarecrow Press | 1997-01-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.78 x.74 x5.72l,.97 | File type: PDF | 240 pages | ||13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.| Confirming what skaters already know.|By W. D.|"Why isn't roller skating in the Olympics?" This question has bothered skaters and skating fans for decades. Occasionally it seems that the sport will finally get its day in the sun, but inevitably it retreats to the status quo. Skaters toil on wheels, unknown, while their counterparts on ice score millions of dollars in commerci|From Publishers Weekly|"Why do the Olympics exclude roller skating?" asks Lewis (Behind the Big Top) in his history of the sport, including speed skating, hockey and dancing on skates. Skates were developed in England in 1760, and ball-bearing wheels were introd
Given the popularity of all types of skating―on the ice, on the boards, and on the streets―why isn't roller skating an Olympic event? Author David H. Lewis sought out people involved in every aspect of the sport in an attempt to answer this question. He talked to competition judges and coaches, rink operators and rink organists, and scores of skaters from around the world.
The answers he found―and there are many―are likely to anger and astound reader...
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