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What can be done to build a foundational understanding for Roller Hockey as defined by the 1992 Olympic Games where it was a Demonstration Sport. The sport currently has many names worldwide.

Hello Hardballhock!
You have to accept that someone started to use the term roller hockey also about the game played with inline skates (nowadays called inline hockey). That's why "the original roller hockey" (rink hockey) has to be called rink hockey or hardball hockey in English to avoid the mess-up with inline hockey. Things would be different if the term inline hockey had been discovered already at the beginning of the new sport, but that didn't happen... So the term roller hockey means nowadays both rink hockey and inline hockey.

And what comes to the term hóquei em patins, it's Portuguese and doesn't have to be mentioned in English texts. In your logic you should then mention the name of the sport in all the languages that exist in the world. That's why we have Wikipedia also in many other languages.

Btw. Was the RHI (Roller Hockey International) a rink hockey league? No it wasn't, it was an inline hockey league.

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Please view: Official Olympic Games 1992 Barcelona Official Report describing Roller Hockey
This piece can be read and is free in its entirety. Roller Hockey (RH) is found on pages 294 thru 297 of Volume IV (109.5MB) a description and additinal information can be found at:

The AAF has obtained permission from the I.O.C. and all relevant National Olympic Committees to web publish all Official Olympic Reports

excerpt: "Roller hockey is a sport with a long history in Catalonia. The Federació Catalana de Patinatge was set up in 1928, although matches had been played on a rink in Turó Parc in Barcelona since 1915. Barcelona's candidature in 1986 included roller hockey for the first time on the Olympic programme as a demonstration sport. The 12 teams taking part were divided into two groups. Group A played in Vic, and was made up of Portugal, Argentina, Italy, the United States of America, Switzerland and Japan while Group B played in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia and was made up of the Netherlands, Brazil, Spain, Germany, Angola and Australia. The ....."

Argentina won the gold at the 92 Olympics masterfully playing a demonstration sport called Roller Hockey as defined by the I.O.C

The demonstration sport was not called Rink Hockey at the 1992 Olympics it was called Roller Hockey (specifically). --Hardballhock 09:17, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of African Confederation of Sports of Roller Skating
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Speedy deletion of African Confederation of Sports of Roller Skating
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The article "African Confederation of Sports of Roller Skating" is intended to build a page for the African Confederation of Sports of Roller Skating as an organization that it member to FIRS. I included the organizational chart. There is very little information on the site and by listing it here there is hope it will be built upon for greater understanding regarding the organization of
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Speedy deletion of African Confederation of Sports of Roller Skating REPLY
The article "African Confederation of Sports of Roller Skating" is intended to build a page for the African Confederation of Sports of Roller Skating as an organization that is member to FIRS. I included the organizational chart. There is very little information on the site and by listing it here there is hope it will be built upon for greater understanding regarding the organization of
 * International_Roller_Sports_Federation F.I.R.S

Proposed deletion of Confederación Panamericana de Roller Sports


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Proposed deletion of Federation of African Roller Sports


The article Federation of African Roller Sports has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern:
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