Dutch blessed with embarrassment of riches in speed skating at Olympics
Want to know how deep skating talent is in the Netherlands? Consider this: Olympic 10,000-metre champion Jorrit Bergsma thought about representing Kazakhstan at the last Olympics just to make it to Vancouver. Qualifying for the Dutch team seemed too tough. “We almost went to the games as Kazakhs,” he said of his training group of the time. In the end, Bergsma stuck with his...