Speed Skating In The Netherlands
Approximately 5 million of the 17 million people in the Netherlands are registered to one of the 35,000 sports clubs in the country. About two thirds of the population older than 15 years participates in sports weekly. Football (soccer) is the most popular sport in the Netherlands, with field hockey and korfball as the second and third most popular team sports. Speed skating, cycling, tennis and golf are the four most widely played individual sports. sport.nl (Figures are from 2005)
A number of native Dutch sports are also practiced, such as fierljeppen (Polsstokverspringen), beugelen,

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