Lost Teams print
Nation On Blades Print, Vintage Speed Skating Poster, Retro Netherlands Wall Art, Black and White Print
About the print
— THE STORY —
Speed skating is the one sport where the Netherlands allows itself to be brazen. Between the Sixties and the Eighties the Dutch school built a dominance founded on a unique popular culture: frozen canals, the Elfstedentocht that stopped the nation, and champions like Kees Verkerk and Ard Schenk, who at Sapporo 1972 won three Olympic golds. In 1988 Yvonne van Gennip added three more in Calgary, beating the machines of the East. Skating, for the Dutch, was simply the natural way to cross winter: the sport followed by itself. The dominance continues today, as brazen as ever. Some peoples are born with skis on their feet; they were born with blades.
Print details
- Premium Matte paper, 200 gsm
- Europe: A3 (297 × 420 mm) — fits standard European frames
- US: 12 × 18 in (30.5 × 45.7 cm) — fits standard US frames
Shipping / frame info
- Printed and shipped from within your region
- FRAME NOT INCLUDED
There is a moment almost all of us lived through, and almost nobody photographed: an older person telling you about a match you never saw. Lost Teams tells the stories of teams and champions who no longer exist, and what they left behind.
Every print begins with a true fact: a number that looks like a misprint and is not.
Hang it. One day someone will ask you what it is, and you will know where to begin.