2002 Winter Olympic Games Short track speed skating. All events were held at the Salt Lake Ice Center.
Famous quotes containing the words short, track, speed, skating and/or winter:
“I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
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“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns
No answering smile from me, whose life is twin’d
With the dead boughs that winter still must bind,”
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)