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@Sindo also tracks all the world championships medals on the road to Paris here: https://totallympics.com/qualification-tracker/paris-2024/world-championships-medal-counts-in-the-road-to-paris-2024/ One of the greatest features on the site, I check it regularly for interest and daydreaming about the Olympics!

Medals for Van 't End and Polling, we are back in 2019!

Some good PB's by young Dutch athletes recently: Britt Weerman 1m96 in high jump (national indoor record) Pauline Hondema 6m57 in long jump N'Ketia Seedo 7.21 in 60m Sofie Dokter 4606 in pentathlon Not to mention Femke Bol's 500m indoor PB, a result so good she might never break it again!

I'm not good at watching full replays (except for Olympics, even after they are spoiled they are fun to rewatch), but I just finished watching a bunch of highlights. I missed a good weekend for Dutch sports! Mathieu van der Poel with another big win, Stam/Schoon winning the Beach Pro Tour, multiple Judo medals in Paris, another dominant weekend for Schulting and the womens relay in shorttrack. At the national championships in speed skating all the events were even won by Dutch!!

Beach Pro Tour Elite 16 Doha Men: 1. Mol/Sorum 2. Ahman/Hellvig 3. Ranghieri/Carambula Women: 1. Stam/Schoon 2. Brunner/Hüberli 3. Clancy/Mariafe Another great start for the season for Stam/Schoon! Ahman/Hellvig are also looking like the real deal after their breakthrough season last year.

I'm away from home all weekend (for good reasons like family time, hiking and my moms birthday) so here's what I'm not watching: National championship speed skating World cup shorttrack in Dresden World championship cyclocross in Hoogerheide Beach volleyball pro tour in Doha Athletics indoor competitions: IFAM Gent, New Balance Indoor Boston, National multi-event championship Eredivisie: Feyenoord - PSV

Seasons don't matter to Qatar, just host as many international tournaments as possible It was a late season finish way after all the other tournaments and now a season start way before the other tournaments start end of March...

Stam/Schoon beat Duda/Ana Patricia in the Elite 16 Doha group stage after 5 matchpoints for the Brazilians in set 2 and 3 matchpoints in set 3. Final score: 22-20 / 29-31 / 14-16 Hughes/Cheng also continue their winning form, beating Melissa/Brandie in three sets after losing the first set 12-21.

So I was a bit early with my previous posts, but tomorrow with the Beach Pro Tour Elite 16 in Doha the qualification ranking really starts!

I don't really know, but I guess it is all chance in the end so it might be possible to miss out twice. However there is so many tickets in total I don't know it all the group matches especially will be sold out.

There will be a second round of sales with single tickets (no obligation to buy a pack of 3 sessions), which will likely include the finals. Whether they will be harder to get hold of depends on how many people sign up for the lottery, I'd assume the next round will be even more popular personally. Because the Games are closer and the finals are included.

Wow that is a disappointing performance by the squad. I believe Angel Daleman and Jenning de Boo had already won medals at the junior world championship last year and they were in the team again this year. Daleman is still only 15 I believe and she's probably our biggest speed skating talent both long track and short track.

2022 Beach Pro Tour Finals: Men: 3. Nicolai/Cottafava 2. Bryl/Losiak 1. Mol/Sorum Women: 3. Stam/Schoon 2. Duda/Ana Patricia 1. Hughes/Cheng Didn't expect Duda/Ana Patricia to lose the womens final, but it looks like Hughes/Cheng have really grown into an elite pair over this season. Both played in the world tour with different partners before this season.

Ooh nice, love me some rankings! Here are the other installments I could find so far. I believe the top 30 articles aren't released yet: https://swimswam.com/swimswams-top-100-for-2023-mens-75-51/ https://swimswam.com/swimswams-top-100-for-2023-mens-50-41/ https://swimswam.com/swimswams-top-100-for-2023-mens-40-31/ https://swimswam.com/swimswams-top-100-for-2023-womens-100-76/ https://swimswam.com/swimswams-top-100-for-2023-womens-75-51/ https://swimswam.com/swimswams-top-100-for-2023-womens-50-41/ https://swimswam.com/swimswams-top-100-for-2023-womens-40-31/

Men's quarterfinals: George/Andre - Brouwer/Meeuwsen Carambula/Rangheri - Nicolai/Cottafava Mol/Sorum and Bryl/Losiak qualified straight to the semi finals and are honestly looking like the clear favorites. Women's quarterfinals: Clancy/Mariafe - Hüberli/Brunner Nuss/Kloth - Hughes/Cheng Duda/Ana Patricia and Stam/Schoon qualified straight to the semi finals. The Brazilian pair is dominant so far, with all the other pairs exchanging games in the group phase.

Maybe I should specify it is the national indoor 5000m running record On ice thats slower than the 10.000m NR

New national indoor 5000m record: 13:11.60 by Mike Foppen!

Apparently there is a plan that only meets with a WA-label will be elligible for international rankings and qualification for international tournaments. US college meets would be excluded by this. Dutch hurdles talent Matthew Sophia is an example that could possibly miss EC Indoor and EC U23 qualification as a result. Source in Dutch: Anyone else heard about this in international news?

Nice silver medal for Van Lieshout in the girls snowboard big air final, with gold and bronze for . The Brittish girl that had the highest score in qualification got 4th after a failed second jump.

Yeah this is such a frustrating trend in basically every sport. I believe hockey international tournaments used to be on the NOS public channel just a few years ago. Maybe it's on Ziggo Sport this time, but I have 'the other' tv provider, because they're the one covering Eredivisie football weekly. So then if I want just the Ziggo Sport channel it's like € 10,- weekly.

Which one is the 50/50 according to you? I would think Australia, England, Netherlands and Belgium are the four clear favorites, but I haven't seen any matches from this tournament. Hockey world championships used to be broadcasted on national TV I feel like, but there's nothing this year.

Tickets for the Dordrecht world cup in 3 weeks are already sold out. Was thinking of going myself, better luck next time.

I'm getting excited just thinking about possibly picking the sessions I want in less than a month in the pack sales. My travel group is mainly focused on getting tickets for knockout rounds and an athletics session, so we probably have to hope for an early timeslot in the draw. I hope you get all the tickets you wish for! My plan is: 7-Aug: beach volleyball quarterfinals 8-Aug: hockey semifinals 9-Aug: athletics evening session (not available in current pack sale) 10-Aug: possible athletics morning session (also as a backup for when we don't get the 9-Aug ticket later on)

Makes me think of the 400mH record by McLaughlin, but I believe that is 50.60 and not 51.60. Is it a swimming record maybe? 100m freestyle women?

TeamNL representation: Figure skating: Nerea Mur Shorttrack: Sophie Nijboer Pom Straathof Jonas de Jong Nick Endeveld Snowboard alpine: Youri Zorge Snowboard cross: Daan Stam Snowboard freestyle: Sam van Lieshout