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 ...

BEIJING, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Dutchman Thomas Krol will be feeling the pressure as he races to claim the top title for the men's 1,000 metres speed skating ... to the nine the Netherlands have ...

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 ...

Sven Kramer of the Netherlands competes in the 5000m men ... speed skater with nine medals, placed third in his lone event at the Dutch Olympic Speed Skating Trials. He must wait and see if that’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

The final two rounds of both the men's and women's team pursuit ... Schouten of the Netherlands said. "I don't know (what happened) yet. We have to analyze it and improve ourselves." The Dutch have ...

SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - The flying Dutch men and women wrapped up the Sochi speed skating competition by cruising to both Olympic team pursuit titles on Saturday. The two golds, both won in ...

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 ...

“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 (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 ...

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.