Elfsteden Chairman Leaves After 20 Years without a Trip: 'You Have to Accept It'

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In former marathon skater Jan Bakker, the Elfstedenvereniging (Eleven Cities Association) has a new chairman. He succeeds Wiebe Wieling, who led the Royal Association of the Eleven Frisian Cities since 2005. In those twenty years, Wieling was never able to organize the race. To his disappointment, it only became exciting once, he told Omrop Fryslân. That one time was in 2012. At the end of January and the beginning of February, it was downright …

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Wiebe Wieling was chairman of the Elfstedenvereniging (Eleven Cities Association) for nearly two decades. This was a period during which the Elfstedentocht (Eleven Cities Tour) was not held. "It's a...