Short Track Speed Skating At The 1988 Winter Olympics
Short track speed skating was a demonstration sport at the 1988 Winter Olympic Games. Events were competed at the Max Bell Arena in Calgary. This was the only time in the Olympics that the short track venue was shared with curling.
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“But come what sorrow can,
It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
That one short minute gives me in her sight.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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Minne Wead: Star-spangled Spig. Damn the martinis, full speed ahead and don’t give up the ship.”
—Frank Fenton, William Wister Haines, co-scenarist, and John Ford. Spig Wead (John Wayne)
“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)