Roller Derby in the Baltic: A Chat with Riga and Tartu Roller Derby

For our first interview of the year, we thought we'd follow up on the spread of Roller Derby across Europe - whilst European Derby is very strongly represented in the West of the continent, as we move east, the sport is still really in the process of getting established.

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So, we talked to two leagues which are still at the edge of the expanding wave of Roller Derby, Riga Roller Derby (representing Latvia) and Tartu Roller Derby (representing Estonia) - the leagues have recently started collaborating on "Baltic Roller Derby" practices to share their resources.

You can listen to the interview here (we're working on a transcript to be available later):

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