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About a week ago, the speed skating season came to an end with the world allround championships in Heerenveen. Josh Lose skated in those championships and didn’t skate particularly well, owing to being slightly ill. Despite performing poorly in the regional qualifier, and believing himself to have not qualified, he got a call three...
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So I’m in Canada and, by the end of this season, will have been here for over three months of the previous twelve. Yet it was only recently that we played our first ever game of ice hockey. Ice hockey is Canada’s biggest sport, and they’re pretty good at it. Wayne Gretzky, the greatest...
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As many of you know, I enjoy taking photos. Some of you even enjoy viewing those photos. Seeing as I do not have any kind of media accreditation for this event, my ability to bring you photos may be somewhat limited because my access to stuff will be somewhat limited. Even so, there’s no...
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Those few of you who know me and live in the Netherlands know that I often inadvertently appear on Dutch television. This is mostly because I get press passes to speed skating events and are just part of the background of photographers. Well, in Holland I probably stand out because I’m young, agile, and...
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Calgary It is time for another update. After two weeks off without training because of my back, I am now slowly starting to get back into it. How slowly? I raced 5000m on Friday night at an average speed of 33km/h, THAT’S how slowly (that might sound fast, but it is not. The fast...
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Calgary Apologies for the lack of updates. The main reason for this is because my trusty MacBook Pro stopped working two Mondays ago, just as I was leaving Holland for Canada. It turns out that it had a faulty logic board which had to be replaced. Luckily (yes, I’m going to pretend that all...
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København The anti-climax to rival all anti-climaxes occurred late on Friday, December 18th 2009. One of the great opportunities for the world to come together and address the urgent problems brought about by man-made climate change, and to take decisive steps towards mitigating it was squandered in dramatic fashion which ended in Barack Obama...
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I am angry. I’m angry at the world. I’m angry at the direction it is headed, not so much because of the direction itself, but more because it was within the power of a handful of men to choose this direction, and they deliberately chose to betray the trust of future generations for their...
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