Speed Skating
Speed Skating World Championships
- Men's All-round Champion – Hjalmar Andersen (Norway)
- Women's All-round Champion – Maria Isakova (USSR)
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Famous quotes containing the words speed and/or skating:
“There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)