Birmingham competitors warmed up for the women’s freestyle world roller skating championships rollerskating is a sport which somehow hasn’t managed to acquire the grammar of its counterpart on ice but if anything it’s even more difficult certainly a skillful and just as good to what as mary wilcox of the USA demonstrated
That was just a sample of the world-class skating standard but it wasn’t good enough to win miss Wilcox a leading place top among the star performers was West Germany’s Christine Creutzfeldt she gave a terrific performance great skating but not quite great enough Christine was relegated to second place
By a fellow countrywoman Astrid bada who turned on a really super performance of brilliant rollerskating to capture the world freestyle title this was the great moment for Astrid and one of the most exciting exhibitions of grace on skates ever seen in Britain West Germany have certainly skated to the top
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