Dutch out of skating practice: fractures pile up

If you’ve ever heard of Hans Brinker or read the story, you’ll know that the Dutch love their ice skating. But, with the weather changes over the past few decades, skating on the canals – which was once a popular past time – has been much less frequent than usual. Until this year.

Winter has returned strong enough to freeze the canals, allowing the people of the Netherlands to once again don their skates and zoom around on the ice as they did generations before. There’s just one problem. They’re out of practice!

According to this article, Dutch skaters a little rusty, in the Montreal Gazette, Dutch skaters have been falling and breaking or spraining limbs, sending many of them to local emergency rooms.

But, at least, they were having fun, right?

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