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Inline speed skating rewards tactics, timing and clean positioning

Inline speed skating looks like a pure sprint, but the cleaner pass, better draft and smarter relay handoff often decide the podium.

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USA Roller Sports Hall of Fame honors skating excellence and leadership

USA Roller Sports' honors system reveals how skating earns legitimacy: medals matter, but so do coaches, officials, and service leaders who set the sport's standards.

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Why compulsory figures still define artistic roller skating

A single wrong turn costs 1.0 point, which is why compulsory figures still sort the elite from the merely flashy. The clearest edges in artistic roller skating still matter most when the program gets loud.

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World Skate quartets reveal roller skating’s most technical discipline

Vortex’s world title and ROLAR4SK8’s 67.18-point runner-up finish show why quartet skating rewards razor-thin control, not just speed or flair.

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Milan opens Inline Freestyle World Cup with 500 skaters

Milan put more than 500 skaters from 25 nations on a public stage, with 325 World Cup points and a new Freestyle Mashup debuting July 2.

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Weather damages Wicked City Roller Derby's biggest fundraiser in Wichita

Severe weather battered Wicked City Roller Derby’s biggest fundraiser, destroying some fireworks and forcing volunteers to protect the lot with mulch and tarps in Derby.

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El Paso Roller Derby blends hard hits, training and community spirit

El Paso Roller Derby turns a brutal flat-track bout into a citywide entry point. At Nations Tobin, skaters train twice a week while jammers and blockers define every jam.

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World Skate defines Skate Cross as roller skating’s obstacle race

Skate Cross is not just speed on wheels. It is a four-skater elimination race where seeding, obstacle lines, and split-second passes decide who survives.

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Traverse City Roller Derby wins Fresh Coast Frenzy at home tournament

Traverse City Roller Derby turned its home Fresh Coast Frenzy into a statement, winning a six-game WFTDA-sanctioned weekend at the Civic Center.

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Junior roller derby teams from across US gather in Waco

More than 150 junior derby athletes packed Skate Waco Bellmead for a two-day B-team champs event, with teams from Philadelphia, Denver and South Carolina.

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Los Alamos edges Elevated Dawn in tight Rio rematch

Los Alamos took the second Rio meeting 205-184, and the weekend results around it made the NA West pecking order clearer than the scoreline alone.

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World Skate clarifies six inline freestyle disciplines for 2026

World Skate has locked inline freestyle into six disciplines, and each one rewards a different skill set. The rulebook now reads like a map of how the sport is judged, trained and ranked.

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Madison Roller Derby's Udder Chaos 2026 delivers lopsided weekend bouts

Ohio Roller Derby’s All Stars won by 122 points, and API Fury hung 264 on Root River as Udder Chaos 2026 turned DeForest into a blowout-heavy derby weekend.

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Ohio Roller Derby crushes Windy City B by 122 points at Madison event

Ohio Roller Derby turned a Windy City B weekend swing into a 236-114 rout, beating expectations by 15.3 percent in DeForest.

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World Skate updates rink hockey rules, highlighting its team structure

Rink hockey looks simple at five skaters a side, but World Skate’s updated rules turn every substitution, foul, and injury into a tactical event.

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Bux-Mont dominates Rainbow Roll 2026, Circle City wins thriller in Detroit

Bux-Mont went 3-0 in Detroit, capped by a 148-139 win over Detroit B, while Circle City beat Detroit B 146-145 in the weekend’s lone one-point thriller.

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How roller skating grew from rink hockey into a global sport

Rink hockey built the federation first, and that structure later carried speed, artistic and inline disciplines onto the world stage.

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Plimpton’s 1863 skate patent transformed roller skating into a sport

Plimpton’s quad skate solved the sport’s biggest problem: it made turning, balance, and speed control repeatable. That one mechanical fix turned roller skating from novelty into competition.

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Roller derby’s original stars, how women shaped the sport’s rise

Roller derby was built to turn skaters into names people followed, and its first women, marquee stars, and TV-era showdowns still shape the sport’s identity.

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Rollarama skaters dominate Northeast regional artistic roller skating championship

Rollarama piled up titles at Ron-A-Roll, but Roller Kingdom and All Star kept the Northeast figures podiums crowded across several age groups.

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How roller skating grew into a world championship sport

A workable four-wheel skate in 1863 set the stage, but world titles in Stuttgart, Monza and Washington turned roller skating into an international sport.

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World Skate codifies precision roller skating as a team discipline

Sixteen skaters, four extras, eight required elements: World Skate’s precision rules turn artistic roller skating into a ruthless test of spacing and timing.

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Flat-track roller derby explained through jams, jammers and star passes

The first thing to watch is not the lap count but who owns the jam. Lead jammer status and a clean star pass can flip a bout faster than raw speed.

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IISHF U16 European Cup opens in Rossemaison with packed schedule

Rossemaison’s U16 European Cup packed two five-team groups into three days, with Saturday’s grind and Sunday’s knockout rounds leaving no room to coast.

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Rohtak celebrates young roller skater Devagya Arora's Nepal gold

Devagya Arora’s gold in Kathmandu turned into a Rohtak reception within days, as Manish Kumar Grover welcomed the Model School Class 1 skater home.

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Adelaide and Victoria surge at WFTDA Oceania Regional Championships

Victoria’s 405-18 rout of Convict City and Adelaide’s two wins put the Oceania bracket on a fast track toward a clear upper tier.

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High Altitude, Terminal City dominate roller derby Summer Slam blowouts

High Altitude and Terminal City piled up 300-plus scores at Summer Slam, while Bouldr Bolters were held under 100 in all four losses.

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Naptown Siren edges Minnesota Nice in dramatic one-point finish

Naptown Siren's 147-146 escape over Minnesota Nice matched Paris' 143-142 bronze-game win, underscoring how razor-thin the derby margin was on June 14.

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Blue Roller wins gold and bronze at UISP national championships

Blue Roller left UISP Skating Fest with gold and bronze, turning one championship run into proof of depth across artistic and speed skating.

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Brisbane City Rollers ride Queens Ball honor into rivalry bout

Queens Ball recognition has Brisbane City Rollers heading into a July 4 Misfits-Devotchkas reunion, with original skaters, live music and a family crowd.

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