Different news for the third Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour: it giet oan
A broad smile is in order for the third Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour as planned, on Tuesday 31 January. The news around this tour ride for recreational skaters turns out to be positive after all. It giet oan.
- That welcome and joyful message comes from the Dutch organisation Weissensee Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour (AEW).
“…Our volunteers are working hard, and by now there is plenty of skating going on by the many skaters who have come over from the Netherlands”, says AEW chairman Toine Doreleijers.
A tour ride for recreational skaters
“The decision has now been made as well. Tomorrow we can start, ice and weather permitting, with the first race, and better still: that we can hold a tour ride again too, this coming Tuesday.”
“So we are getting everything ready for that as well. And we are delighted about it, because in the end all these people, racing skaters and recreational skaters alike, come here to put in their laps on natural ice.”
In this period thousands of recreational skaters normally travel to the Weissensee for skating on natural ice.
Hopeful signs earlier on
At first it was still somewhat uncertain whether the third Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour on the programme would go ahead after all. Both the first and the second tour had been cancelled because of snow and thaw.
The local ice team is working flat out and meanwhile it is freezing. Which is why hopeful reports were already going around. “Things are looking good at the moment for the tour ride on Tuesday”, the organisation said on its social channels. “We remain dependent on nature, of course.”
“But as an organisation – and thanks to the flexibility of the riders, the teams and the KNSB, who have a shortened programme – we are working hard to make the tour ride possible.” And all that hard work has paid off: it giet oan.
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The revised 2023 programme
The revised programme, now that the third Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour is going ahead, reads as follows:
- Tuesday 31 January 2023 Weissensee Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour – 200 kilometre tour ride (‘third’ tour)
- Friday 3 February 2023 Weissensee Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour – 200 kilometre tour ride (‘fourth’ tour)
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