One of the most peculiar Eleven City Ice skating-tours has been the tour of 1940. In that year the management announced five winners. This never happened before. What was the matter? We called up on winner Piet Keizer:

"Auke Adema, Cor Jongert, Sjouke Westra, Dirk v.d. Duim and I arrived in Workum at the same time. We had to collect the stamps in public houses. When we arrived in such a public house, people told us that there was a lot of snow on the ice in Leeuwarden at the finish. A final sprint was impossible. Because the cracks weren't visible, it was too dangerous to sprint. They told us we better went to the finish slowly together. When we arrived at the finish, we saw that it was possible to sprint. So we did sprint. I won the sprint with a lead of twelve meters. Actually I was the winner. However, a couple of hours later the management decide to proclaim us all as winners. I don't know why they have made that decision. I was the first not-Frisian winner of the tour. I guess they didn't like that. I didn't object to the ruling, but I thought (and think) it was a strange ruling. Several years later, in 1956, five riders finished all together. Then the management disqualified them all."

He has right. Thursday the fourteenth February of 1956 Jeen Nauta, Jan v.d. Hoorn, Aad de Koning, Anton Verhoeven and Maus Wijnhout finished hand by hand. It caused discussions at the same time. Which decision should the management take? They took a decision after the tour. They've decided to disqualify the five riders. There should be no winner that year.