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Ice skating lovers hoping for higher chances of an Elfstedentocht tour between 11 Frisian cities this year will be disappointed. According to Wiebe Wieling, former chairman of the association charged ...

TECHENDORF, Austria (Reuters) - It is 22 years since canals in the Netherlands froze enough to run the country's most famous speed skating event, an epic race that snakes through towns near the ...

Waking up in the Netherlands as a child, to the chill of winter creeping in outside your warm blankets, you'd jump out of bed because you knew if the canals were frozen — you would skate. There were ...

The 200 kilometre ice skating marathon Elfstedentocht will not go ahead this winter because of coronavirus, the organisers have said. It is usually the weather which shatters the expectations of those ...