The 2007 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships were held between 8 March and 11 March 2007 in the Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City. Twelve events were held, and world records were broken in five events.
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Thou’st made the world too beautiful this year;
My soul is all but out of me,—let fall
No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
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From this distance in time,
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