Bart Veldkamp is a retired speed skater, who represented the Netherlands and later Belgium in international competitions, including the Winter Olympics. He currently is the national speed skating coach of Belgium.

Peking Express is a Dutch–Flemish reality game show that follows a series of couples as they hitchhike to or from Beijing. The series, first broadcast on 14 March 2004, ran for seven seasons from 2004 to 2008 and was revived in 2012 and again in 2017. In the Netherlands, it was screened by Net 5 and in Belgium by VT4 during its original 2000s run before moving to Q2 in 2017. The game show concept has also been sold to a number of countries around the world since 2005.