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Campbell Ritchie wrote:Another lot of sports invented by Englishmen which we now lose at
Isn't that how they used to go to primary school?Randy Maddocks wrote:. . . the Norwegians - the way they rip through cross country skiing . . . .
Campbell Ritchie wrote:Isn't that how they used to go to primary school?
Or this:It's not whether you win or loose, it's how you play or the game.
Winning isn't everything.
βThe strongest of all warriors are these two β Time and Patience.β β Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Randy Maddocks wrote:Oh, and the Norwegians ...
Paul Clapham wrote:Time zones make it sort of confusing -- it's Thursday evening here but in Korea it's already Friday morning. So (if I have it right) the opening ceremonies start at 5 am my time tomorrow, which is 8 am your time. I can tell you that we won't be watching the opening ceremonies live! But these days everything is On Demand and it can be found somewhere on the web.
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Jan de Boer wrote:It is ice skating for the Dutch of course. It is the only thing in the Winter Olympics we are good at. We should even consider letting the others win from time to time, otherwise it might be taken off the program.
Jan de Boer wrote:It is ice skating for the Dutch of course
Paul Clapham wrote:(...) Canada has a skater called Ted-Jan Bloemen (yes, he's a Canadian now) who just pinched one of the Netherlands' medals.
There are three kinds of actuaries: those who can count, and those who can't.
Randy Maddocks wrote:The Dutch are phenomenal speed skaters!
Jan de Boer wrote:We literally won all the 400 meter track distances so far, men and women. This is not going good. Next Olympics they will take it off the schedule, saying it is a Dutchmen only sport anyway!
Randy Maddocks wrote:The Dutch are phenomenal speed skaters!
Katie Couric wrote:It is probably not a news flash to tell you the Dutch are really, really good at speed skating. All but five of the 110 medals they've won have been on the speed skating oval. Now, 'Why are they so good?' you may be asking yourselves. Because skating is an important mode of transportation in a city like Amsterdam which sits at sea level. As you all know, it has lots of canals that can freeze in the winters. So, for as long as those canals have existed, the Dutch have skated on them to get from place to place, to race each other, and also to have fun.
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Paul Clapham wrote:I don't think so... cyclocross competitions are still happening even though the Belgians win almost everything almost all the time. On the other hand, cyclocross isn't yet an Olympic sport.
Jan de Boer wrote:Next Olympics they will take it off the schedule, saying it is a Dutchmen only sport anyway!
Randy Maddocks wrote:The Dutch are phenomenal speed skaters!
Ron McLeod wrote:Of course they are - according to Katie Couric in the winter the Dutch get practice daily using the frozen canals as their mode of transportation ...
There are three kinds of actuaries: those who can count, and those who can't.
Piet Souris wrote:To the Canadians among us: TeeJay Flowers is still much more Dutch than Canadian!
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Paul Clapham wrote:
Piet Souris wrote:To the Canadians among us: TeeJay Flowers is still much more Dutch than Canadian!
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Yes, ain't dual citizenship great! Canada has so many of them, some people are trying to redefine it as a virtue. At least it's better than grumbling about immigrants.