Harbour Harlots On Track for Fitness - and Plenty of Fun ; Roller Derby It's Fast. It's Furious. And It's Nothing Like the Sports That Most Women Remember From Their Schooldays. Brooke Nolan Explains the Game of Roller Derby - Where She and Her Fellow Players Are More Likely to Be Wearing Black Fishnets Than Navy Blue Games Shorts

Evening Post (Bristol, UK) › August 08, 2010

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Roller derby is described as a mix of speed-skating and rugby, but without the ball. And it's the latest sporting craze to hit the streets of Bristol.

The full-contact, woman-only sport was first popular in the 1930s and has undergone many transformations since then. It has recently seen international revival thanks to Drew Barrymore's directional debut Whip It!

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Harbour Harlots On Track for Fitness - and Plenty of Fun ; Roller Derby It's Fast. It's Furious. And It's Nothing Like the Sports That Most Women Remember From Their Schooldays. Brooke Nolan Explains the Game of Roller Derby - Where She and Her Fellow Players Are More Likely to Be Wearing Black Fishnets Than Navy Blue Games Shorts

Bristol roller derby, whose league name is the Bristol Harbour Harlots, was started earlier this year by New Zealand-born Anna Wong.

Anna, 27, from Stokes Croft, says: "I found out about derby in 2006 when I was invi...

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