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Ring Tones

By Eric Adelson

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Hats. Orange hats. Rows and rows of orange hats, swaying back and forth. Orange hats shaped like megaphones, like crowns, like clogs, like tulips. They sit on the heads of Dutch speed skating fans, who appeared at Torino's Oval Lingotto even before the Zambonis did. The fans dance to their nation's raucous pep band, the Kleintje Pils ("Little Beer"), and try not to tip their big beers as they sing "Proud Mary" and "Auld Lang Syne." They live for this sport, coming as they do from a country parti ...

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