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Rock and roll with the Capital City Derby Dolls
The first full-contact roller derby event was the brainchild of promoter Leo Seltzer in the 1930s with his Transcontinental Roller Derby, a month-long simulation of a cross- country road race between two-man teams of professional skaters. As the clouds of World War Two began to loom over Europe, modern full-contact roller derby featuring five-member teams debuted and proved a slamming success, with its own national league complete with season playoff sell- outs at New York City’s Madison Square Gardens, more than 5 million fans in 50 cit- ies across the continental U.S., and one of the first pro sports to take to the air on early local television broadcasts in New York City. Like professional wrestling, roller derby featured colourful characters as both he- roes and villains, depending on the home town crowd. The sport declined after the 1960s but is coming back stronger than ever in the 21st century with more than 1200 amateur leagues, men, women, and co-ed, along with junior leagues, in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Aus- tralia. It is also one of eight possible con- tenders to be the demo sport at the 2020 Olympics. Colourful characters like Nina Nails, Ruby Wreckage and Shari Bomb are still part of the sport, almost like secret identities for these athletes whose alter egos range from homemakers to lawyers. So come down to the Jean-Marc Lalonde Arena, Sept. 8, 7 p.m., and cheer on the Der- by Dolls.
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Rockland | They are queens of Ottawa’s roller derby scene and this weekend the Dolly Rogers rock and roll into Rockland for wild weekend jamming slamming throwdown showdown with the Oz Roller Girls from New York state. They are the Capital City Derby Dolls, a.k.a. the Dolly Rogers, and they plan to show the ladies from the port town of Os- wego on the other side of Lake Ontario just how things roll in Canada when it is derby time at the rink. Roller derby is one of the original orga- nized extreme sports before there was such a thing as extreme sports and it is making a major comeback and racing all around the world thanks to enthusiastic amateur leagues and player-owner-and-operated clubs like the Capital City Derby Dolls. Roller derby traces its history back to the mid-1880s when the recreational popular- ity of roller-skating resulted in organized endurance races for rollerskaters that last- ed several days and featured cash prizes. Speed and endurance races, or derbies as they became known, for roller-skating be- came a booming part of the early American sports scene with banked tracks introduced that added an element of risk to competi- tors and excitement for spectators when skaters took a spill.
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