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Ice Skating

Ice skating probably originated in Scandinavia with Viking culture. Originally the runners were made of ground down oxen or reindeer bone and tied to footwear with leather straps. They were originally used for accelerated transportation and later used for fun. Anywhere with cold enough winters for lakes and canals to freeze have long traditions of ice skating, though with the development of modern rinks, ice skating now has an international character, is a very popular spectator and competitive sport and features strongly in all the Winter Olympic Games. Different forms competitive version of the sport are speed skating, figures skating in pairs individually and ice dancing.

It used to be thought that skating worked by melting the ice under the blade due to pressure, but it has more recently been discovered that the atomic structure of ice crystals gives way to a thin layer of water at its edge, even in air temperatures below freezing point, which is what the blade “skates” on. Skating on the actual ice would be akin to skating on glass. The optimum temperature for an ice rink, i.e. that giving the minimum friction, is -7°C.

If you are on a winter sport holiday or any other kind of break that takes in ice skating as a recreation, you will be covered by insurance from Holiday Insurance Web.

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