</strong><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Page Title Goes Here</span><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Describe your page here using sentences. “> <!–[if lt IE 9]> <![endif]–> … … The History of Speed Skating Did you know? Speed skating dates back over a thousand years to Scandinavia, and the Netherlands, where the natives added bones to their shoes and used them to travel on frozen rivers, canals and lakes? It was much later, in the 16th century, that people started seeing skating as fun and perhaps even a sporting activity. … …