Then, chic as ever atop his blades, one of the best athletes any country ever had launched into his Olympic 10,000 metres, the only race achingly missing from his decorated CV. He had not won an Olympic 10,000 only because of a glitch a broadcast technician called “a national trauma,” the infamous disqualification at Vancouver 2010 , one of those everybody-knows-where-they-were moments in the Netherlands. This race.”“He’s one of the biggest sportsmen we have had in the Netherlands, not only in speedskating but in sports,” Timmerman said of Sven Kramer. Kramer, in Dutch in the interview mixed zone: “For years I’ve done everything for this (race). (Kramer won silver.)

Source: thestar February 16, 2018 00:21 UTC