1966 in Sports - Speed Skating

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:

    “Life is too short to waste
    In critic peep or cynic bark,
    Quarrel or reprimand:
    ‘Twill soon be dark;
    Up, heed thine own aim, and
    God speed the mark!”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)