East German Christa Rothenburger won the women's 1,000 metre speed skating event.

New events were added in ski jumping and speed skating while future Olympic sports curling, short track speed skating and freestyle skiing made their appearance as demonstration sports.

Cross country skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, Nordic combined, ski jumping, and speed skating have been featured at every Winter Olympics program since its inception in 1924.

Johann Olav Koss of Norway won three gold medals, coming first in all of the distance speed skating events.

They were led by Hjalmar Andersen who won three gold medals in four events in the speed skating competition.

South Korean athletes won 10 medals, including 6 gold in the short track speed skating events.

Australian Steven Bradbury became the first gold medallist from the southern hemisphere when he won the 1,000 metre short track speed skating event.

Other disciplines Synchronized skating (formerly known as precision skating) is for mixed gender groups of 12 to 20 skaters.

Dutch skater Yvonne van Gennip won three gold medals and set two world records, beating skaters from the favoured East German team in every race.

Excellent skating conditions can also be enjoyed at the Orlík Water Reservoir.

The road is more like an ice rink.

This is a form of group skating that is less structured than synchronized skating and allows the use of props and theatrical costuming.

Ice skating can be graceful and beautiful.

Ice dancing is again for couples consisting of a woman and a man skating together.

When he was 6 years old, Barrie's next older brother David (his mother's favourite) died two days before his 14th birthday in an ice skating accident.

The vehicle, called the ThrustSSC ( Super Sonic Car ), captured the record 50 years and one day after Yeager's first supersonic flight.

In figure skating, it is always desirable to skate on only one edge of the blade.

It was a common discipline in the early days of skating and appeared once at the Olympics, in 1908.

However, the speed of sound varies from substance to substance.

formula_19where formula_20 is the transverse velocity formula_21 is the radial velocity.

Narrator Do you have a need for speed?

In fluid dynamics, Mach number (M or Ma) ( ) is a dimensionless quantity representing the ratio of flow velocity past a boundary to the local speed of sound.

Today's club has sections for boxing, handball, hockey, rollerblading and ice skating, swimming, skiing, and tennis.

the average speed as it completes an orbit, or the speed at a particular point in its orbit.

In the Southern Hemisphere, the water is transported to the left of the wind.

There's no speed limit.

Respect the speed limits!

Respect the speed limits!

The type of explosives used in mining are high explosives which vary in composition and performance properties.

Figure skating (in 1908 and 1920) and ice hockey (in 1920) were featured as Olympic events at the Summer Olympics.

Don't exceed the speed limit.

Critical ionization velocity The critical ionization velocity is the relative velocity between an ionized plasma and a neutral gas, above which a runaway ionization process takes place.

Speed and death.

Globalisation is the speed of light.

Operations Network System characteristics The trains are supplied by 3000 V DC overhead wires, and have a commercial speed of 40 km h with a maximum speed of 80 km h.

From this study five recognized sports emerged as candidates for inclusion at the 2012 Summer Olympics golf, karate, rugby union, roller sports and squash.

Canada became embroiled with Russia in a controversy that involved the judging of the pairs figure skating competition.

Velocity and speed The velocity of a particle is a vector that tells about the direction and magnitude of the rate of change of the position vector, that is, how the position of a point changes with each instant of time.

Even though angular velocity, angular frequency and the unit hertz all have the dimension 1 s (reciprocal second), angular velocity and angular frequency are not expressed in hertz, but rather in an appropriate angular unit such as radians per second.

In particular, the speed of light in a medium is less than in vacuum, which means that the same frequency will correspond to a shorter wavelength in the medium than in vacuum, as shown in the figure at right.

Average velocity can be calculated as formula_1The average velocity is always less than or equal to the average speed of an object.

This is a high speed centrifuge.

Here we have it running at high speed mode.

Watch out! There's a speed camera.

The motorcyclist exceeded the speed limit.