1 Skating through the streets of Brussel to the start.
2 The Atomium.
3 Me behaving like a tourist :-)
4 Paperwork in the ...
5 Koning Boudewijn stadium.
6 More and more skaters are gathering.
7 Lots of officials too.
8 Belgian police on skates. Will they join us?
9 Hydro skaters present too. They would benefit from their special skates on the rough roads.
10 How many skaters will appear?
11 Jan Feijes also present.
12 And of course Rouli Roula.
13 Skate Spiderman and Skate Batman in a fight?
14 DUSFOR liberate Belgian.
15 Preparing for the start.
16 Klaus and me in the front row.
17 Profi ladies Hilde Goovaarts (r) and Anja de Koster (L) in pusuit of Jean-Vincent Faehres and Didier Baetens.
18 Didier, Henri and me during the last kms.
19 km 38: Where is the finish???
20 Here it is. on a corner of an intersection.
21 Huub (Belgian Inline Center) finishing
22 Maarten and Brenda.
23 Bart almost dead.
24 He, what are you doing?
25 Claus just finished.
26 Astrid.
27 Another skater "attacked" by the mobile timing.
28 Stephanie and Philippe.
29 Dick from Eindhoven.
30 Claus and Markus relaxing.
31 "Break lady, I want your time!"
32 Klaus and Huub.
33 Kristof
34 O, oh, don't finish to fast.
35 Now, they are blocking traffic for the runners.
36 Arno.
37 A little bit rest after crossing the fimish line.
38 Marc and Markus
39 Who is this spider skater?
40 It's Patrick.
41 Jan Feijes finishing and taking pictures. Bat lady ready to hit him for timing
42 The runners did have a great entrance onto the big old market square.
43 With a video wall.
44 And festivities.
45 I took my skates there :-)
46 Thinking: "Why didn't we finish here?"
47 And the medal. (you had to get one from the runners finish).
48 We also found some food.
49 Psing in front of the famous Manneke Pis
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Peter Nikkel.
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