Science of the Winter Olympics - Skates

The ice skates worn by this year's hockey players, figure skaters and speed skaters are vastly different from what were once used. Melissa Hines, the Director of the Cornell University Center for Materials Research, and Sam Colbeck, a retired scientist from the U.S. Army Cold Regions Lab, explain how innovations in boot and blade design help skaters perform better than ever before.

NBC Learn, the educational arm of NBC News, has teamed up with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to produce Science of the Olympic Winter Games, a 16-part video series that explores the science behind individual Olympic events, including Downhill and Aerial Skiing, Speed Skating and Figure Skating, Curling and Hockey, and Ski Jumping, Bobsledding and Snowboarding.

This groundbreaking project between the NSF and NBC Learn uses the global spotlight of the Olympics to make science more accessible and more interesting to students by showing how science helps athletes fulfill the Olympic motto: Citius, Altius, Fortius--Swifter, Higher, Stronger. Read more about the "Science of the Olympic Winter Games" at http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/olympics/.

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Science & Technology

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• National Science Foundation
• NSF
• science of the winter olympics
• science of skates
• skates
• skate technology
• winter olympics
• Melissa Hines
• Sam Colbeck
• NBC Learn
• ice skating

[Measonz]

Nice work........wonderful video.

[SkatingRoller1]

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The last Friday of each month there will be cash prizes to be won., #100 for the winner of TAG. If I was you I would get down there each and every Friday to Practice, who will win the #100 and a trophy for that month???

[ItsEmmalicious]

*gasp!*are those floors rubber? they better be, if theyre not shes messing up her blades so bad its not even funny

[nikmo]

Thanks! I've been wondering about the skates they use.