Sentences with phrase «ice speed skater»

And certainly his sport requires as high a level of fitness and skill as, say, ice speed skater Eric Heiden's, though it does have a less affecting history.

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The most recent rulings from the IOC came at the end of December and banned 11 more athletes: Luge competitors Tatiana Ivanova and Albert Demchenko; speed skaters Ivan Skobrev and Artem Kuznetcov; cross-country skiers Nikita Kryukov, Alexander Bessmertnykh, and Natalia Matveeva; bobsledders Liudmila Udobkina and Maxim Belugin; and ice hockey players Tatiana Burina and Anna Shchukina.
At RPI they said it was probably only coincidence or a faulty thermostat, but the soft ice did serve wonderfully well to slow fast skaters down to RPI speed.
Obviously, Mike LayPort is in no need of money, which is a good thing; unlike ice skating, there isn't any in roller skating and, for that matter, no future and no acclaim, except from other speed roller skaters.
They used motion capture to track Olympic - level speed skaters as they zipped around an ice rink.
Like an ice skater bringing her arms inward to spin faster, that overall shift of mass is speeding up Earth's rotation, Morrison says.
High school physics equations are awesome at calculating the speed of a falling bowling ball from a tower, or a frictionless ice skater going in a straight line.
Fire on the Ice, the fourth book in Parker's series, begins with a passionate and extremely hot reunion between short track speed skater Blaze Bellamy and figure skater Maisy Harper, who hooked up during their last go - around at the games.
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