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Saturday 31 March 2018

Hmm - I don't see the point of this



From The Local

What better place to break the world ice skating speed record than the vast expanses of ice in the Luleå archipelago in northern Sweden?

Dutch Olympic medal-winner Kjeld Nuis on Thursday reached a record-breaking 93kph, skating behind a car dragging a specially designed aeroshield to reduce air resistance.

3 comments:

Scrobs. said...

Me neither...

When I last went skating, in Hastings, around 1985, I fell over and hurt my knee, so I stopped trying and went off for a cooling beer.

The music was by Frankie goes to Hollywood, so perhaps that's why I was unable to stay vertical for more than thirty seconds!

Demetrius said...

I once did the four minute mile. I was on my racing bike behind a high speed tram.

A K Haart said...

Scrobs - are you sure it wasn't the beer?

Demetrius - in Nottingham there have been stories of racing bike wheels becoming stuck in tram tracks.