"All the other people wearing speed skates came up to introduce themselves."

So in Illinois we had to borrow black speed skates."

Some of them were wearing speed skates of the sort you see in the Olympics.

Speed skates and touring skates, however, have a completely flat bottom.

Speed skates and marathon skates are also used in Tour skating.

The free-heel models give the equivalent effect as the klap skate form of speed skates.

Rodriguez, a former world champion in inline skating, was 20 when she laced up her first pair of speed skates.

These extended-blade skates are known as speed skates.

Racing skates, also known as speed skates, have long blades and are used for speed skating.

A two-time national champion on in-line skates, he had used his frequent-bus miles for a chance to cross-train on speed skates.

Turning is significantly more difficult with inline speed skates than recreational skates because of more and larger wheels, creating a longer wheelbase.

Mathieu is now the President of Apex Racing Skates, a company that makes custom short track speed skates.

Paulsen first publicly executed the Axel jump in 1882 at the World Championships in Vienna while wearing speed skates.

The Scandic rents out touring skates, speed skates and, best for beginners, Easy Gliders that you just strap on to your own boots.

The skaters mostly use common such skates with long blades or speed skates, with long blades rigidly attached to the skating shoes.

Having switched from in-line skates to speed skates four years ago, he must now adjust to yet another technological innovation, the speedy, and controversial, clap skates.

But last and most important, speed skates cannot be found in a random tour of New York rinks because most of them ban speed skates.

Cruikshank called upon Scott Van Horne, founder and current President of VH Inc., the world leader in developing and manufacturing high-performance speed skates.

She runs, skis, hikes, speed skates and otherwise spends many exhausting hours with her husband, Matt Glerum, 40, the vice president for marketing at Garnet Hill, a clothing company.

Short Track All short track skaters must have speed skates, a spandex skin suit, protective helmet, protective eye ware, shin pads, knee pads, neck guard (bib style).

Downhill inline racers usually wear skates much more like "regular" inline skates than inline speed skates, along with extensive body covering and protective gear, and strong helmets.

When we went back to New York for Christmas that year, we looked all over for white speed skates, not knowing that nobody makes white speed skates.

The heels of the skaters were free, as they are in many new Olympic speed skates, and as the skaters moved, the rear of the blades would momentarily disconnect from the boot heels.

To veteran Winter Olympics watchers, the racers looked familiar, mostly wearing speed skates and tight racing suits, bodies bent forward, hands clasped leisurely behind their backs and muscular legs all fluid motion.

I Map Cruise at Town and Country Skateworld, one block north of Hillsborough Ave, where rental is included, unless you want in-line (around US$3) or speed skates (around US$3).