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Hockey and speed skating. I don't know why, but people skating really really fast at the threat of sliding out and going flying has me in total awe. If you are to analyze speed skating as a sport of physics, it's funny to think that these people are really trying to go as fast as they can while dealing with centripetal motions.
Then again, all sports are really attested to smacking physics in the face. Basketball is defiance of gravity. Baseball is all about pressure and Bernoulli's principle. Football is ... umm.... momentum and .. force :0 I'll stop now.
I would be interested in seeing a speed skate sprint. No turns or anything, just a flat out sprint. Maybe uphill or downhill, or over ice moguls. That would kick some serious butt.
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