Extractions: Home Browse Newsletters Store ... Subscribe Already a member? Log in This Article's Table of Contents Introduction Roller skating. Skateboarding Ice skating. History of Skating Print this Table of Contents Shopping Price: USD $1495 Revised, updated, and still unrivaled. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (Hardcover) Price: USD $15.95 The Scrabble player's bible on sale! Save 30%. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Price: USD $19.95 Save big on America's best-selling dictionary. Discounted 38%! More Britannica products skates and skating Student Encyclopedia Article Page 2 of 5 Roller skating. Most boys and girls learn how to skate on driveways, sidewalks, or playgrounds. Beginning skaters usually wear adjustable clamp skates, which fasten to the soles of their regular shoes or boots. The molded toe clamps are tightened with a skate key, and leather straps bind the skates to the ankle. Strap-on skates have flexible Velcro fastenings.
Extractions: from Dr. Louis Grivetti, the project's compiler: This year, 1996, marks the centennial celebration of the modern Olympic movement. In this spirit of celebration we acknowledge and recognize the names and publications of more than 50,000 historical and contemporary scholars, linked by the thread of a united, common interest in athletics, sport, and recreation. Athletics, games, leisure pursuits, physical education, play activities, and sports lie at the junction between the humanities, social sciences, and biological-medical sciences. While athletic activities most likely had their origin in military training, it is difficult in modern times to separate each theme: athletics from games, games from leisure pursuits and physical education, physical education from play, play from recreation, or recreation from sports. During past and present centuries research on human athletics, games, play, recreation, and sports has been conducted by a broad range of scientists, whether dietitians, nutritionists, physiologists, or physicians. Research on these themes also has been conducted by a broad range of scholars representing the humanities and social sciences, whether anthropologists, artists, classicists, dancers, economists, geographers, historians, musicians, psychologists, social theorists, or sociologists.
Extractions: Any Resource Type Articles / papers / reports - collections Articles / papers / reports - individual Audio-visual / multimedia resources Books Database Event / conference announcements Journal - Contents and abstracts Journal - Full text Learning material Mailing list / discussion group News / media Organisation Web Site - Companies Organisation Web Site - FE/HE depts. Organisation Web Site - Governmental Organisation Web site - Recruitment/employment Organisation Web Site - Non-profit Organisation Web Site - Professional bodies Reference materials Research Projects / Centres Resource guide / directories Software Statistics Worksheets/Activity sheets Related topics: broader: winter sports other: roller skating ice No. of records: 11 p: 1 British Artistic Roller Skating This site contains information on artistic roller skating. Information includes a roller skating calendar of events, news, championship results, and information on skating tests, skills and awards. It has a list of artistic roller skating clubs, roller skating rinks and sports centres that have roller skating sessions. There is also a link to the Federation of Artistic Roller Skating (FARS). This site is described separately in Altis. sports centres skating roller skating sports facilities ... Federation of Artistic Roller Skating (The) This is the home page of the body that controls artistic roller skating within the United Kingdom. The site has information about the history and development of the sport and the FARS organisation. It has a calendar of events, a list of clubs, details of sponsorships, grants, and competition results. FARS dance diagrams are available in PDF format and can be downloaded using Adobe Acrobat software. Information on child protection and technical tests for basic skills, figures, dance, free and pairs can be accessed. Links to related sites are also included.
Skate NZ - Links... Rollerskating is an official Special olympic sport in New Zealand. The New ZealandSpecial olympics Foundation is a registered charitable trust (1985) with http://www.skatenz.org.nz/links.html
Inline Skaters Crank Up Speed As Spring Rolls On - 04/25/02 Jessica Smith s parents were competitive roller skaters and put skates on herwhen she was just Smith hopes the sport will be in the Olympics one day. http://www.detnews.com/2002/outdoors/0204/27/e04-474370.htm
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Keo.co.za The five sports which could be admitted for the 2012 Olympics will find out on If the rollerskating relates to inline skates (rollerblades) and to http://blog.keo.co.za/archives/2005/07/rugbys_olympic.php
Extractions: var sc_project=237955; Home July 08, 2005 The International Olympic Committee will announce on Saturday whether rugby sevens will become an Olympic Sport. This comes days after baseball and softball were dropped from the Olympic programme for the 2012 London Games - and will replaced by rugby, squash, golf, karate or roller skating. IOC members held a secret ballot to decide which sports to axe from the existing list of 28 ahead of the London Games in 2012. And both baseball and softball, who will remain on the Olympic programme for 2008, failed to get enough votes. They are the first sports to be cut from the Olympics since polo in 1936. The five sports which could be admitted for the 2012 Olympics will find out on Saturday if they have been successful. According to the IRB, the introduction of sevens would strengthen the summer Games. It would bring in more spectators, more television viewers, more internet users and more commercial revenue than the majority of the existing summer sports, according to published broadcasting and commercial statistical comparisons of the existing 28 sports and sevens. Sevens comes fifth in terms of tickets sold for its world championships, when compared with the 28 existing summer Olympic sports. The 120 000 tickets sold over three days for the World Cup Sevens in Hong Kong earlier this year is only beaten by four of the existing sports: athletics, basketball, football and tennis. In other words, there are 24 current sports that sell fewer tickets than rugby sevens to their world championships.