The reason is predominantly one sport, long track speed skating ... single gold medal has gone to a Dutch team member except for one. They have won the men’s 1,500-meter and the 5,000, and ...

“A foreigner has won a medal at men’s speed skating ... Until the mid 1990s, the center of Dutch skating was the so-called “kernploeg:” A team of six skaters who received stipends ...

BEIJING: Dutchman Thomas Krol will be feeling the pressure as he races to claim the top title for the men's 1,000m speed skating at the ... medal to the nine the Netherlands have won so far.

The Dutch men’s team completed their run at the four-day world speed skating championships in South Korea with another gold medal for Kjeld Nuis, this time in the 1,500 metres. Nuis’s second title of ...

Speed skater Patrick Roest delivered the Netherlands its 100 th gold medal at the world single distance championships in Heerenveen on Thursday night, as he clinched the 5,000 metres title. It was ...

But just being fast doesn’t guarantee a place on its team. By Kevin Draper When the speedskater Dai Dai N’tab finished second in the 500-meter men’s race ... the Royal Dutch Skating ...

(Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images) Canada's women's pursuit team of Isabelle Weidemann, Ivanie Blondin and Valérie Maltais secured a gold medal at the ISU World Speed Skating Championship in ...

BEIJING, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Spearheaded by men's 5,000 ... team placed third, while a strong Dutch line-up including double silver Beijing medallist Patrick Roest and speed skating great Sven ...

Sven Kramer of the Netherlands competes in the 5000m men during the Olympic qualification ... ANP/AFP via Getty Images The Dutch speed skating federation put Sven Kramer on its Olympic team, choosing ...

The Canadian ice maker for the National Speed Skating ... set twice by Dutch skaters in men's 1500m The technical director of the Dutch skating association Remy de Wit said his team believed ...