Kjeld Nuis Has Signed A Lifetime Contract With Team Reggeborgh, A Month Before His 36th Birthday. The three-time Olympic Champion Doesn’tn’t Yet Know When he will stop skating.
“I’m really not going to continuous until I’m fifty, don’t worry,” Nuis Said Thorsday Evening the Team Presentation of Reggeborgh in Rijssen. “Or course, there is an end date for my career, but it’s not on paper. I’m very grateful to the sponsor for that.”
Nuis Hopes to Qualify for the Milan Games (February 6-22) at the Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Thialf at the End of December. That should be his last Olympic Appearance. “I won be there in four years,” Says Nuis.
The South Hollander Has Been Riding for Reggeborgh, the team of coach Gerard van Velde, Since 2020. He left the formation of coach Jac Orie After Eleven Seasons. His contract with reggegh Ran Until the Spring of 2026.
Due to his new contract without an end date, it is Certain that nuis will never compete for another team again. “I am very proud of that. In skating, it has never happened before some lifetime a lifetime contract. I am very happy that regborgh and I have expressed our confidence in Each Other.”
Nuis Follows Example of Aert And Vos
Nuis won Gold in 2018 in the 1,000 and 1,500 meters at the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. Four years later, in Beijing, the prolonged his Olympic Title in the 1,500 meters.
Last Season, Nuis was Still Among the World’s Best, Although at the End of the Winter He was not on the Podium at the World Single Distances Championships in Hamar, Partly Due to An Injury. The Four-Time World Champion Finished Sixth in the 1,500 meters and Sevth in the 1,000 meters.
A Lifetime Contract is Unique in Dutch Skating. Nuis and Reggeborgh Follow the Example of the Visma-Lease a Bike Cycling Team, which recently signed figureheads Wout van Aert and Marianne Vos for an Indefinite Period.