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BBC news has a great story about ice skaters in Finland. It seems that the sport of Ice skating goes back at least 4000 years.
Early Finns used ice skates made out of horse bones. The researchers at oxford actually made some replica bone ice skates and tested them. While the bone skates were not as fast as modern metal blades, they were quite fun to use.
Check out the story at BBC news: Skating traced back 4,000 years