Dennis

Femke Bol gaat in elk geval voor 3x goud. Leuk dat ze het een keer probeert: als het ergens een keer kan, is het op dit EK. Uiteindelijk hoeft ze 'maar' vijf keer te lopen (zij liever dan ik :-)). De 400 meter vlak wordt close met de Poolse concurrentes, de 400 horden zou 'easy' moeten zijn en de 4x400 meter hangt vooral af van de vorm van de derde en vierde loopster (ik vermoed Lisanne de Witte en Eveline Saalberg). 
 
Verder ben ik erg benieuwd naar Jorinde van Klinken. Zij leek toch altijd een groter talent te zijn dan Jessica Schilder, dus als ze dat ook op seniorenniveau gaat bewijzen, gaan er mooie dingen volgen. Op de marathon heeft Nienke Brinkman by far de snelste tijd staan, maar wat mij betreft zegt dat ook weer niet zó veel. Tot slot ben ik ook benieuwd of Anouk Vetter wéér een goede meerkamp kan afleveren. Zij is de laatste jaren wel lekker steady geworden.
 
Oh ... en een medaille voor Tony van Diepen zou fantastisch zijn!
 
 

Sarina Wiegman succesfully defends her title!

Marie Bouzkova won the Prague title 60 63 over Anastasia Potapova. Nothing unusual except for the fact Bouzkova hit ZERO winners all match  That's basically unheard of even in women's tennis. Meanwhile Potapova made 44 unforced errors! That's like 2.93 UE per game!

Sure. Imagine all the booked flight for Ljubljana next Summer

The fact that France hasn’t scored yet is somewhat of a miracle. They’re outplaying the Dutch, but haven’t converted any of their chances yet. 

That final sprint of the women's 10k was very exciting 
 
No medal for Hassan unfortunately, but Gidey was just better 

COVID within the Dutch team. Jackie Groenen tested positive. She was by far the strongest player on the Dutch side yesterday.

Yeah, the finish was very exciting. The first 3 women finished within 1 second from each other after 10k.  
 
My meeting at work was about to start at 10:00 and meetings with Dutch and German colleagues always start right on time., but I saw how tight the race was and the finish was at 10:03 or something like that, so I made ten people in the meeting wait for me with some stupid excuse, just so I could watch the finish. 

Yeah, the finish was very exciting. The first 3 women finished within 1 second from each other after 10k.  
 
My meeting at work was about to start at 10:00 and meetings with Dutch and German colleagues always start right on time., but I saw how tight the race was and the finish was at 10:03 or something like that, so I made ten people in the meeting wait for me with some stupid excuse, just so I could watch the finish. 

Yeah, the finish was very exciting. The first 3 women finished within 1 second from each other after 10k.  
 
My meeting at work was about to start at 10:00 and meetings with Dutch and German colleagues always start right on time., but I saw how tight the race was and the finish was at 10:03 or something like that, so I made ten people in the meeting wait for me with some stupid excuse, just so I could watch the finish. 

Yeah, the finish was very exciting. The first 3 women finished within 1 second from each other after 10k.  
 
My meeting at work was about to start at 10:00 and meetings with Dutch and German colleagues always start right on time., but I saw how tight the race was and the finish was at 10:03 or something like that, so I made ten people in the meeting wait for me with some stupid excuse, just so I could watch the finish. 

Yeah, the finish was very exciting. The first 3 women finished within 1 second from each other after 10k.  
 
My meeting at work was about to start at 10:00 and meetings with Dutch and German colleagues always start right on time., but I saw how tight the race was and the finish was at 10:03 or something like that, so I made ten people in the meeting wait for me with some stupid excuse, just so I could watch the finish. 

Finally the WC break for Sharon van Rouwendaal. As per usual,  salvaging what little is left in the marathon tournament. Happy to see her on top form on the Olympic distance again.
 
She was a bit helped by Cunha and Beck battling it out together, but that's what can happen in a three-way race to the finish.

https://www.ihf.info/media-center/news/netherlands-and-slovenia-receive-wild-cards-polandsweden-2023
 
 and  received a wildcard.
 
These will be the first World Championships for the Dutch men’s team since 1961 

https://www.ihf.info/media-center/news/netherlands-and-slovenia-receive-wild-cards-polandsweden-2023
 
 and  received a wildcard.
 
These will be the first World Championships for the Dutch men’s team since 1961 

https://www.ihf.info/media-center/news/netherlands-and-slovenia-receive-wild-cards-polandsweden-2023
 
 and  received a wildcard.
 
These will be the first World Championships for the Dutch men’s team since 1961 

https://www.ihf.info/media-center/news/netherlands-and-slovenia-receive-wild-cards-polandsweden-2023
 
 and  received a wildcard.
 
These will be the first World Championships for the Dutch men’s team since 1961 

Pudar into 100m Butterfly final. That's one flag in swimming I didn't expect to see in a global swimming final.
 
Osman made the final by 0,02.

Not too well. They finished in 22nd place with 38 points. 33 of those points came from the professional juries, whereas they only received 5 points from the televoting, all from   
 
They had to open the show, which is often not a good position as the voting only starts after all 25 songs have been performed. By that time a lot of people had forgotten the Czech song or they only started watching the show after they had already performed. 

My personal only explanation is that they sang better in the jury session (jury votes are not based on yesterdays final, but on the test run they do one day earlier), and the public vote based on the videoclip, because the live singing yesterday I found it pretty horrible 

My issue was that I like the recorded version more than the live performance. It’s already been on my playlist for months. It’s the best outright, just not this evening.

I've read a lot of comments saying people have had their TV on mute, but still knew Spain was the best
 
 

Bulgaria kinda sounds like the Pokémon song, Gotta catch 'em all! I like it  

I honestly felt that it was rather uninteresting!

Carlijn Achtereekte, Olympic Champion 3.000m in 2018, has made a switch to cycling.
 
She transferred internally from the Jumbo Visma speed skating team to the Jumbo Visma cycling team. Her first big competition will most likely be the national championships on the road next month.