Speed Skating
- January 4 – death of Inga Artamonova (29), Russian world speed-skating champion, who was murdered by her husband
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Famous quotes containing the words speed and/or skating:
“The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man’s adjustment to it—the speed of his acceptance.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)
“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)