Do you remember Igor Malkov, Leo Visser and Gerard Kemkers?

If you are older than 40 years, the chances are great.

Malkov was the Soviet who fought with Tomas Gustafsson at the Olympics in Sarajevo and the Dutch had to face the same Gustafsson four years later.

I, myself, sat as a nine-year-old, 1984 and as a 13-year-old in 1988 glued to the TV screen and followed Tomas Gustafsson, just like a large part of the Swedish people.

Is World Cup current Nils van der Poel about to once again get Swedish TV viewers to follow lap times with excitement and compare hundredths with Dutch and Norwegians?

Do you think that you can get me interested in skating again?

- Haha, my ambition is not to get people interested in skating.

My ambition is to live a life that feels meaningful and do what I think is fun but I am very fond of this sport and therefore I think there are very many others who will be if they open their eyes to it, so absolutely.

Do you feel like an ambassador for skating now?

- I do not go around thinking like that, but somewhere we all see an ambassador for what we stand for, regardless of what you are doing and what level you are doing it at.

CLIP: Nils van der Poel gets double World Cup places

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Fantastic race by van der Poel.

Photo: TV10 / TT.