Skating's wheels of fortune
Just as pedestrians were getting used to the sidewalk intrusions of skateboarders, cyclists and joggers, they had to make room for another mobile urban menace: roller skaters. The U.S. now has an estimated 28 million of them, and a Gallup poll has found their passion to be the fifth most popular participation sport among teenagers, ahead of tennis and skiing.
There is now a Girl Scout badge for proficiency in roller and ice skating, and at the Pan-Am Games in Puerto Rico earlier this summer there were 16 roller events...
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