Speed Skating
- Jay Ramirez, 26 year old London based Colombian skater, who is training in Holland and attempting to become the first Colombian born athlete to take part in the Winter Olympic Games, in Sochi 2014.
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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)
“Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.”
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