Katie Couric said skating is 'an important mode of transportation' in the Netherlands — here’s how l

Katie Couric was widely criticized for suggesting skating was an "important mode of transportation" in the Netherlands. Using data from Statistics Netherlands, Business Insider estimated how long Dutch gold-medal speed skater Sven Kramer would take to skate the average distance traveled by a Dutch person in a day. If Kramer were able to sustain a speed of 29 mph, he would be able to cover the average daily commute distance of 32 kilometers in about 39 minutes, beating the average travel time...