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More than 2,500 local parents and school children filled the Bright Hockey Center yesterday afternoon for Skate Fest...
...know what I'm talking about, you slide a stone down the ice, and people skate ahead of it and use brooms and sticks to guide the stone onto a target. I think I speak for 99.9 percent of the world's population when I say: whoopee...
...This week they hope to glide ahead of the favorites. So fierce is the rivalry that at last month's European championships in Milan, the two pairs engaged in a game of intimidation during the warm-ups, whipping by each other so closely that costumes were torn by flashing skate blades...
When a sport is transformed overnight by the arrival of new technology--graphite tennis racquets, fiber-glass vaulting poles, high-backed ski boots--the change makes everyone queasy. But performance trumps sentiment. The sport of speed skating is at one of those pivotal junctures, with good old tradition being upended by a Dutch contraption called the clap skate. Unlike the conventional skate heel, the heel of the clap skate's boot detaches from the blade like a one-way seesaw. The skater's heel lifts off the blade, lengthening the blade's contact time on the ice, then the blade...
...SATURDAY Picabo will have to beat out defending champ Katja Seizinger for downhill gold. In women's hockey, it will be U.S. vs. Canada (a preview of the finals?). Men's free skate...