The International Skating Union has organised the World All-Round Speed Skating Championships for Men since 1893. Unofficial Championships were held in the years 1889-1892.
Famous quotes containing the words world, speed, skating and/or men:
“I have none of the tenderer-than-thou
Collectivistic regimenting love
With which the modern world is being swept.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are to remain civilized or to become civilized, the art of association must develop and improve among them at the same speed as equality of conditions spreads.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)