Rookard, 26, won spots in the 1,500, 3,000 and 5,000, following in the skate tracks of Jen Rodriguez, a former inline star who will represent the United States in her fourth Olympics.
Modern skaters dress in costume, adopt stripper-type stage names and endure sexually suggestive penalties, but they also deliver real hits, mind the business end of their leagues and disassemble their skate tracks by hand at the end of each competition.
Each has an ice-skating rink, an inline skating track, a rock-climbing wall and eight dining rooms, and the Explorer will also have a marine laboratory and classroom.
You tour it in the cab from the airport, passing the gleaming new English-language Nazarbayev University and then the new soccer stadium, speed-skating track, and ten-thousand-seat velodrome.
The 2,260-passenger 2,260-passenger roller shipincludesk, a 4-D cinema — think 3-D with physical effects like wind — and a golf simulatoroller 37 courskating
In Ottawa, the annual Winterlude Festival (bit.ly/RideauWinter; 31 Jan - 17 Feb) takes place when the Rideau Canal freezes over to create a 4.8-mile skating track.
As soon as those standards are published, Mr. Howman said, other international federations — like those that govern skiing, skating, track and field and biathlon — will begin passport programs.
Once the cycling union's passport program proves to be successful, antidoping experts say, other sports — like skating, track and field and soccer — could institute similar antidoping programs or bolster the data gathering they already perform.
The Games should be for sports that reach their peak under the five rings every four years — gymnastics, figure skating, track and field and lesser ones, like curling or team handball.
