Thursday, June 15, 2006

A Dutchman in Nagano...


I was telling the story of my visit to the Nagano Olympics in 1998 and thought I'd briefly recount it.

Bottom line: I traveled to Nagano and decided I wanted to do something uniquely Olympian (e.g. not ice hockey) so I got tickets for Womens' 3000m speed skating.

On my way, I stopped by the Heineken Holland House (the Dutch are speed skating maniacs) and figured, "what the heck?" so I got my face painted with the Dutch flag seeing as they care more about the sport than Americans and I figured it would add to the atmosphere.

It did...until people started asking me questions in Dutch!
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