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Down and derby : the insider's guide to roller derby
When most Americans hear the words "roller derby" today, they think of the kitschy sport once popular on weekend television during the seventies and eighties. Originally an endurance competition where skaters traveled the equivalent of a trip between Los Angeles and New York, derby gradually evolved into a violent contact sport often involving fake fighting. But after nearly dying out in the nineties, derby has been making a comeback. From a mere handful of leagues in the United States just a few years ago, there are now more than 17,000 skaters in more than 400 leagues around the world, with.
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- "When most Americans hear the words "roller derby" today, they think of the kitschy sport once popular on weekend television during the seventies and eighties. Originally an endurance competition where skaters traveled the equivalent of a trip between Los Angeles and New York, derby gradually evolved into a violent contact sport often involving fake fighting. But after nearly dying out in the nineties, derby has been making a comeback. From a mere handful of leagues in the United States just a few years ago, there are now more than 17,000 skaters in more than 400 leagues around the world, with."@en
- "Traces the history of the roller derby, discussing its rise in popularity, eventual decline in the 1990s, and return to prominence in the early twenty-first century, and profiling popular skaters who shaped the sport."@en
- "Traces the history of the roller derby, discussing its rise in popularity, eventual decline in the 1990s, and return to prominence in the early twenty-first century, and profiling popular skaters who shaped the sport."