Elfstedentocht
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Elfstedentocht
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#2We can only hope that maybe this year we will have another Elfstedentocht :)
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#3We can only hope that maybe this year we will have another Elfstedentocht :)
The organizers have been pretty clear that they're not going to hold one during COVID, so I'd judge the chances to be extremely small, no matter what Thierry "GOAT IET OAN" Baudet says.
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#4This is kind of the equivalent of the Superbowl for the Dutch, but due to global warming it hasn't been held in 24 years. The previous longest interval was 22 years, so some people are starting to doubt whether it will ever happen again.
Imagine if the real Superbowl wasn't held in 24 years due to global warming and may never happen again, perhaps then it would be more of a priority.
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#5This is kind of the equivalent of the Superbowl for the Dutch, but due to global warming it hasn't been held in 24 years. The previous longest interval was 22 years, so some people are starting to doubt whether it will ever happen again. Imagine if the real Superbowl wasn't held in 24 years due to global warming and may never happen again, perhaps then it would be more of a priority.
> This is kind of the equivalent of the Superbowl for the Dutch
Uh, I'm not too familiar with the Superbowl, but the title of 'most popular televised sporting event in the Netherlands' definitely goes to the football world championship.
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#6This is kind of the equivalent of the Superbowl for the Dutch, but due to global warming it hasn't been held in 24 years. The previous longest interval was 22 years, so some people are starting to doubt whether it will ever happen again. Imagine if the real Superbowl wasn't held in 24 years due to global warming and may never happen again, perhaps then it would be more of a priority.
> This is kind of the equivalent of the Superbowl for the Dutch Uh, I'm not too familiar with the Superbowl, but the title of 'most popular televised sporting event in the Netherlands' definitely goes to the football world championship.
> 'most popular televised sporting event in the Netherlands'
It's not hard to compete for that title when your competition hasn't had a televised event in 24 years...
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
> This is kind of the equivalent of the Superbowl for the Dutch Uh, I'm not too familiar with the Superbowl, but the title of 'most popular televised sporting event in the Netherlands' definitely goes to the football world championship.
> 'most popular televised sporting event in the Netherlands' It's not hard to compete for that title when your competition hasn't had a televised event in 24 years...
More generally, the national ice skating championships are also nowhere near as popular as the national football championship (Eredivisie).
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 'most popular televised sporting event in the Netherlands' It's not hard to compete for that title when your competition hasn't had a televised event in 24 years...
More generally, the national ice skating championships are also nowhere near as popular as the national football championship (Eredivisie).
Not every sporting event that uses a football is the same, neither is every sporting event that uses ice skates.
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#9The organisation behind it has already ruled there wont be an event this year no matter how thick the ice gets. But people get the “fever” every time the temperature drops below 0 Celcius. This happens every year, it’s a thing.
Also because of next month’s elections some opportunistic/populistic partys are using this event as the hill to die on, hoping to catch some votes and ignoring what people might really be catching in case of such an event.
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#10We can only hope that maybe this year we will have another Elfstedentocht :)
The organizers have been pretty clear that they're not going to hold one during COVID, so I'd judge the chances to be extremely small, no matter what Thierry "GOAT IET OAN" Baudet says.
They said they are ready to hold an elfstedentocht within 48 hours, if there is any change to the rules though, so it would need both full ice formation and government intervention. Not holding any hopes though.