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It is believed that skates were developed about 3000 years ago in Scandinavia. In the Netherlands, skating served as a way to travel over the canals in winter and the Dutch are still among the worlds most avid skaters.Although the Netherlands is the ...
http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/disciplines_uk.asp?DiscCode=SS
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- Short Track Speed Skating
Short track speed skating races began to occur in Europe shortly after speed skating became an established international sport. The International Skating Union was founded in 1892, three years after the first longtrack World Championships.Prior to th ...
http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/disciplines_uk.asp?DiscCode=ST
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- Olympic Speed Skating Links
The Netherlands is considered by many to be the birthplace of speed skating Skates were used to travel over the canals in winter, and racing competition naturally developed The discipline has been a part of the Olympics since the first Winter Games i ...
http://www.sirlinksalot.net/speedskating.html
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