What Jamie Found » Finland http://www.whatjamiefound.com Facts, news, and interesting stuff Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:01:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Ice skating goes back 4000 years http://www.whatjamiefound.com/2007/12/26/ice-skating-goes-back-4000-years/ http://www.whatjamiefound.com/2007/12/26/ice-skating-goes-back-4000-years/#comments Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:09:26 +0000 Jamie Barrows http://www.whatjamiefound.com/2007/12/26/ice-skating-goes-back-4000-years/ Bone Ice skateBBC 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

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