Ice Skating

Ice Skating

By: Connor Williams

Ice skating was invented in Scandinavia as early as 1000 bce, so it’s been around for a long time.

 

 Ice skates now and days are made out of suede and different types of leather. The blades are made out of metal that get sharpened to skate. I skates back when it was invented were made out of leather or wood and they strapped sharpened bones to the bottom of the skates. Ice skating has come a long way since it’s beginning in 1000 bce. People are in the olympics jumping quads now. Nathen Chen is the best skater to come out of America in a long time. He has gone to the Olympics twice in his skating career and won a bronze medal in the Beijing Olympics in 2018. He is also a three time world champion winning over Yuzuru Hanyu in this past world championship.

 

Ice skating has really been affected by the worldwide pandemic. In 2020 The world championships were cancelled due to the pandemic. People all around the world couldn’t ice skate because rinks were shutting down and the want was slowly going away. But now that there are televised championships and there are regional competitions the want for ice skating is coming back.

 

Not only are competitions coming back for ice skating but Disney on ice is also back after being cancelled because of covid.  Disney on ice is where the disney princesses perform a show in front of an audience while doing tricks. There are other shows also such as Wizard of Oz and Lion King. Because of covid ice skating isn’t where it was and is now changed forever but also the people who ice skate where held back.

 

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