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Fédération Internationale De Roller Sports
The Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports (FIRS; en, International Federation of Roller Sports) was the world governing body for roller sports, including skateboarding, rink hockey, inline hockey, inline speed skating, inline alpine, downhill, roller derby, roller freestyle, inline freestyle, aggressive inline skating, inline figure skating and artistic roller skating. It was established in April 1924 in Montreux, Switzerland by two Swiss sportsmen, Fred Renkewitz and Otto Myer, who had close connections to the International Olympic Committee. The FIRS gathered more than 100 national federations, including countries from every continent and they are affiliated with the International Skating Union. A proposal to dissolve the federation and merge with the International Skateboarding Federation to form a new body known as World Skate was ratified in September 2017. Since 2017 World Skate has organised the World Roller Games, comprising all the world roller sport disciplines a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Skate
World Skate is the only governing body in the world for all sports performed on skating wheels. The organisation is the successor of the Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports (FIRS) founded on the 21 of April 1924. Due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, World Skate banned Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials from its competitions, and will not stage any events in Russia or Belarus in 2022. Disciplines World Skate serves as the international governing body for: * Artistic skating * Inline alpine skating * Inline downhill skating * Inline freestyle skating * Inline speed skating * Inline hockey, also called roller in-line hockey * Rink hockey, also called roller hockey or quad hockey * Roller derby * Roller freestyle skating, also called aggressive inline skating or rollerblading * Scootering, also called freestyle scootering * Skateboarding * Skate cross History World Skate was established as the (FIPR) on 21 April 1924 as an organ for creating mul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |