The European Confederation of Roller Skating (Confédération Européenne de Roller Skating, or CERS) is the main European roller skating organization. The CERS is part of the International Roller Sports Federation, or FIRS. Varieties of skating governed by the CERS include:
- Inline Downhill
- Roller Hockey, by CERH
- Inline hockey
- Speedskating
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“Unsophisticated and confiding, they are easily led into every vice, and humanity weeps over the ruin thus remorselessly inflicted upon them by their European civilizers.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“And thus Snow White became the prince’s bride.
The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast
and when she arrived there were
red-hot iron shoes,
in the manner of red-hot roller skates,
clamped upon her feet.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)