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Maddison Danielson pushes herself against another girl trying to break past her. Their legs weave between each other as both try to gain the upper hand on their four-wheel roller skates. Even on a ...

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An early Dutch pair of roller skates, at the National Museum of Roller Skating in Lincoln, Nebraska. CBS News That was the birth of the inline skate – which has its wheels in a row.