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Holland's Willem-Alexander and Maxima provide royal cheer in Vancouver

February 15 2010

Good cheer was certainly emanating from the Dutch section of the crowd on the first day of competition at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver on Saturday. Dressed in bright royal orange and yelling at the tops of their voices, The Netherlands' Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, Princess Maxima and their three girls, Catharina-Amalia, Ariane and Alexia, joined 4,500 of their countrymen at the 5,000m speed-skating event. And all their cheering certainly seemed to do the trick as 23-year-ol ...