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 ...

NBC's Katie Couric was slammed across social media for saying Dutch successes in Olympic speed skating were ... Some people posted photos of people ice skating and sarcastically captioned them ...

The Netherlands sealed its supremacy in long track speed skating at the Sochi Winter Olympics on Saturday, taking the gold medal in both the men’s and women’s team pursuit. Sven Kramer, Jan ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -World record holder Kjeld Nuis edged out his rivals to win the men’s 1,500 metres at the ... and finished seventh. The Dutch speed skating team have now won six medals at ...

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 ...