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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch authorities have called off an organized skating tour across a string of frozen lakes after 17,000 skaters turned up and the ice was declared too weak to hold them all.
Ramon Kuipers of the Royal Netherlands Skating Union said Thursday the ice on stretches of the 25-kilometer (15.5-mile) Five Lakes Tour was unsafe. The event starting in the northeastern town of Giethoorn was the first major tour organized by Dutch skating authorities since lakes and rivers froze over during a deep freeze that has gripped the Netherlands for more than a week.
On Monday, firefighters in the western Netherlands recovered the body of a man from under the ice, a day after he disappeared while skating.
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