Roller sports
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Roller sports are sports that use human powered vehicles which use rolling either by gravity or various pushing techniques. Typically ball bearings and polyurethane wheels are used for momentum and traction respectively, and are attached to devices or vehicles that the roller puts his weight on. The international governing body is World Skate.
List
Roller sports include the following disciplines
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- Inline skating
- Vert Skating
- Aggressive inline skating
- Inline freestyle skating
- Inline figure skating
- Inline hockey
- Inline skater hockey
- Inline speed skating
- Roller soccer
- Inline alpine skating
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- Roller skating
- Artistic roller skating
- Roller speed skating
- Jam skating
- Roller derby
- Rink hockey
- Road skating
- Roller skiing
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- Freestyle scootering{{Cite web |url=http://www.worldskate.org/news/17-world-skate/2925-world-skate-welcomes-scooter-riding-in-the-family-as-a-new-discipline.html |title=WORLD SKATE WELCOMES SCOOTER RIDING IN THE FAMILY AS A NEW DISCIPLINE |date=9 July 2018}}
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World Roller Games disciplines
Since 2017 World Skate has organised the World Roller Games, a biennial competition that now includes 11 world championships in one single event.
List of events:{{cite web |title=Disciplines |url=https://www.wrg2019.com/disciplines/ |website=wrg2019 |access-date=18 August 2019}}
Olympic Disciplines
Skateboarding events have been introduced for the 2020 Summer Olympics, with two events: park and street.{{cite web |title=Skateboarding |url=https://tokyo2020.org/en/games/sport/olympic/skateboarding/ |website=Tokyo 2020 |access-date=18 August 2019}}{{cite web |title=10 things to know about new sports and events in 2020 Olympics |url=https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2019/07/24/2020-summer-olympics-10-things-know-new-sports-events/1806757001/ |website=USA Today |access-date=18 August 2019}}
World Games Disciplines
On the programme for the 2022 World Games there were four roller sports disciplines: Artistic, Inline hockey, Speed Skating Road and Speed Skating track. Roller sports is the only sport on the World Games programme represented in three clusters. Speed Skating belongs to "Trend Sports", Artistic to "Artistic Sports" and Inline Hockey to "Ball Sports".{{cite web |title=Roller Sports |url=https://www.theworldgames.org/sports/Roller_Sports-60 |website=The World Games.org |access-date=18 August 2019}}
References
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External links
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- {{cite web|url=http://usarollersports.org/|title=USA Roller Sports - Features, Events, Results | Team USA|publisher=usarollersports.org|access-date=2015-11-09}}
- {{cite book|title=Sport, Culture and Society: An Introduction|author=Jarvie, G.|date=2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9780415306478|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2gZVA6qePtwC&pg=PA271|page=271|access-date=2015-11-09}}
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