skate
Example Sentences
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Of all of the extreme Winter Olympic events, pairs skating might just be the most insane.
Leerdam had earlier set down a time of 37.15sec but Kok powered through the line in her skate against the American Erin Jackson to go more than half a second faster.
From Barron's
On Friday the overwhelming favourite for the men's gold, Ilia Malinin, faltered in the free skate, along with virtually all the top competitors, but Shaidorov held his nerve.
From Barron's
This, too, is predictable, but it’s always a rough watch, whether it’s Ilia Malinin’s tumbles in men’s figure skating, or Mikaela Shiffrin’s mysteriously nondescript slalom run in the team combined event.
Team GB's hopes for a medal in the men's 1500m short track speed skating event comes to an abrupt end as Niall Treacy is penalised for a lane infringement which leads to a collision.
From BBC
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