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Simon Gleave
@SimonGleave
Head of SportsAnalysis at @GracenoteTweets | Fan of sport, particularly Rugby, Football, Cricket | Cambridge, Palace & Utrecht | Love Film | My views are my own
Jun 21, 2019 • 33 tweets • 24 min read
If you followed me last year (and are from outside the Netherlands) you might remember this.

Van der Weijden eventually had to stop after 55 hours and having swum 163km.

Today he has started another attempt. This should be international news in my opinion. Just over 10 months later and Maarten van der Weijden is SWIMMING the route of the Elfstedentocht again - it is actually 196km.

He began at 5.30pm (6 hours ago) and has passed his first city (of 11).
May 20, 2019 • 23 tweets • 7 min read
The United Kingdom & Germany both failed (again) at Saturday's #Eurovision.

The German reaction: "For 2020, we need to think carefully about how we choose our song and artist"

The British reaction: "If we'd sent Gary Barlow or Elton John, we'd still have been last"

#UK #GER I know I bang on about this but in the end it is all about the song. Best domestic chart positions:

NED - Number 1 in the Netherlands
ITA - Number 1 in Italy
SUI - Number 8 in Switzerland
NOR - Number 3 in Norway
SWE - Number 1 in Sweden

Great Britain - Number 72 - in Scotland