In the delightfully alternative sports program "Holland Sport" they do a standard show outro of the guests pedalling two rounds around a virtual track on stationary bikes. This year's top time by Theo Bos 21.09 sec, all time record by Jochem Uytdehaage (a speedskater) 20.33 sec, but I think he cheated the start. Apparently T-mobile team was having a party in Amsterdam last night, Jan was there too, but Vinokourov won the vodka drinking contest ("as usual", per team mate Schmitz). They interviewed Vino and had Nardello, Wesemann, Schmitz and Vino on the bikes: http://www.phys.uu.nl/~dronkert/tmp/20041121_hollandsport.mpg (18 MB 1:50).
Thanks again for making this available, Ewoud. Nys was looking pretty strong in that. I liked the part (roughly in the middle of it) when they were going through a muddy section and everyone was getting nice and slideways under power. Very cool.
-- tanx, Howard
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In the delightfully alternative sports program "Holland Sport" they do a standard show outro of the guests pedalling two rounds around a virtual track on stationary bikes. This year's top time by Theo Bos 21.09 sec, all time record by Jochem Uytdehaage (a speedskater) 20.33 sec, but I think he cheated the start. Apparently T-mobile team was having a party in Amsterdam last night, Jan was there too, but Vinokourov won the vodka drinking contest ("as usual", per team mate Schmitz). They interviewed Vino and had Nardello, Wesemann, Schmitz and Vino on the bikes: http://www.phys.uu.nl/~dronkert/tmp/20041121_hollandsport.mpg (18 MB 1:50).
Thanks for the post. I think I can understand quite a bit; "Groenendaal wants absolutely to get by..." "Nys has won all one can win in cross" eh?! I think if you have a handle on German you can understand lots of Dutch. Very cool.
I think if you have a handle on German you can understand lots of Dutch. Very cool.
The nice lady in Heerlen whom I asked directions from (to the Amstel Gold start) in German in 1993 quite politely told me where the border was and suggested that if I wasn't familiar with Dutch, then English was preferable to German.
But as far as comprehension goes, you may have a point.
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James P. Spooner said:
I think if you have a handle on German you can understand lots of Dutch. Very cool.
The nice lady in Heerlen whom I asked directions from (to the Amstel Gold start) in German in 1993 quite politely told me where the border was and suggested that if I wasn't familiar with Dutch, then English was preferable to German.
But as far as comprehension goes, you may have a point.
I took a Dutch course on tape and so I knew how to pronounce it. a couple of years later my German (Swiss) was pretty good and I found I could read Dutch pretty well (relatively so), and would always get directions and order in Dutch. Often, I'd insert a German word if I didn't know the Dutch one and by and large be understood. I'd tell anyone who switched to English that I didn't speak it. This also works in Quebec when they switch to English. Maybe we could get Ewoud to post every race. Then we'll really get our comprehension going!
