The football players, speedway drivers and skaters in Veenoord can take it for years to come. In the past six months, a lot of hard work has been done to refurbish Sportpark Veenoord. Today was the opening of the renewed sports park.
“Great”, Jeroen van der Veen of the Speedway Foundation calls it that things have been overhauled. “This can really help for the future.”
Although the work has not yet been completed, the party will be celebrated at the sports complex with fireworks, dancing and demonstrations. SV Twedo has a new artificial grass pitch, the main pitch got new grass and the drainage was tackled.
The ice club got a new ice rink and the speedway club a new spot with several driving lines on the track. But perhaps even more importantly, the ice club and the speedway are no longer in each other’s way.
“The speedway and ice rink are now separate,” says Van der Veen. When the plans were made, which were given concrete form five years ago, the conclusion was quickly drawn that this had to be done. “Speedway wants a certain treatment of the track, and the rink wants that too. We are very happy to have our own place.”
And that the new job works, that is immediately apparent this afternoon during a special training day. On July 1, the association will hold an Open Dutch Championship, on September 30 the ‘pop’ will follow: the Golden Jopa Helmet speedway competition.
Where the drivers make people enthusiastic with the roaring engines, the skating club tries to teach the youth with a skating clinic. In the sun, about twenty degrees, the thoughts of the skating fanatics there already wander to the first heavy frost in the autumn. Then one of the rewards has to wait for the renovation of the park on the edge of Veenoord-New Amsterdam: the first marathon on natural ice.