Rollerskate

It is a Belgian, Joseph Merlin, who invented the first roller skate in adapting skating ice skating ground. In 1760 he took the idea of setting metal rollers on a wooden plaque. In 1789, the Dutchman, Lodewijk Van Lede developed a pair of skates on the ground ". Later in 1819 the French Petitbled filed the first patent official runners to three wheels in line with the screws in the heel as a brake. In 1863, James Plimpton revolutionized skating by inventing a system that allowed the runner to rotate (the "rocking skate" with four wheels mounted on two axles mobile). Plimpton opened the first ice rink in New York. Other rinks and skating rinks, were then opened in Europe and the United States. Thanks to the first ball bearings in 1884 that roller skating is a sport of speed and endurance. From the early 20th century, roller skating in France knows very popular. It is practiced in many rooms in Paris and the Federation of Roller Skaters of France was created in 1910. The success was immediate. Are emerging, as in England, paths for skaters and an enthusiastic audience made developers happy! But they realize that skating alone, as attractive as it is, do not give full satisfaction to customers. That is why we organize competitions for figure skating and running, with the opening track of the Hippodrome, Boulevard de Clichy and that of the "Vel d'Hiv" attracts many sportsmen.

It consists of five disciplines:

- The artistic

- Descent (downhill)

- Hockey

- Inline hockey

- Speed on track or road

- 33 159 graduates in 2000

- 3.5 million practitioners on a regular or occasional

- 4 million pairs of skates sold in 2000 against 2 million in 1998.

- The hulls: the rigid Skating

- The removable: the skate shoe is through the plate (the system that surrounds the wheels) that can be removed.

- The fitness: skating, flexible and fast. They represent over 80% market share.

An hour and 9 minutes (50 kph), the average time of a marathon roller, along 42 km. The current world number one discipline is the French Arnaud Gicquel (23-9-72), who won the World Cup in 2001.

The rink hockey, team sports, seduced young. The first tournament was held in 1910 in Paris and see the victory of the English team Crystal Palace. In 1914, its leaders have been conscripted, the Federation of Skaters France disappears. The torch was taken in 1920 by the French Federation of Roller Skating, which is transformed in 1926 into French Federation of hockey rink. Finally, since 1980 the French Federation of Sports Roller Skating (rollerskating) comprises the National Committees of art, racing and hockey.

Globally, it is mainly Spain and Argentina share in recent years the world crown:

1999 Argentina became world champion by beating Spain.

2001 Spain beat Argentina in the final.

Thus women, Spain won the world title in 2000 succeeding to Argentina.

The European men's champion in 2000: Spain to Portugal and Italy (France finished 4th).

One of the best teams currently lights: HC Quévert, sacred repeatedly France champion whose last title in 2002.

The track events of 200 meters are:

sprint 300 m and 500 m;

bottom: 3000 m, 5000 m and 10,000 m;

relays;

the points race and pursuit.

Road races (on a ring of 400 meters) are the same (except for the lawsuit) with more marathon run on the last day.

The inline (a plate with four wheels aligned) were invented in 1980 by the hockey player Scott Olsson and then marketed by the major sports brands. Thanks to them, skating roller-blading has become a social phenomenon.

Among the various disciplines:

- The fitness or how to get around town on skates.

- The street is the most technical discipline with his acrobatics and jumps. The street is practiced in the skate parks equipped with ramps (halfpipe) and above all in the street, an ideal place for "street" with sidewalks, its barriers, its marches, its benches. During a street competition, the "street" makes figures for two periods of 60 or 90 seconds, each on different obstacles.

A first beam with four wheels was made by foundries in the early last century continue to drive cross-country skiing during the summer. The first pair rollerski are manufactured in the 70s.

The skis have a length of 53 cm and a width of 4 cm. Polyurethane wheels have a diameter of 10 cm and a width of 2.4 cm. As in skiing, we advance with sticks.

There are three styles of racing: the hill climbing (long distance), the circuit races and the sprint events taking place by elimination.

The speed can reach 70 km downhill and 40 km on flat terrain. Among enthusiasts, the founder Vincent Vittoz, double world champion 2

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