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Told you so! You are right though, even if someone wins this easily in the U18 age group there are no guarantees of any success. At this age it's most important to just steadily keep improving PBs, because everyone matures at a different rate and responds to intensified training differently. A second Dutch medal today: bronze in the javelin throw! Feel like we've been winning more medals in field events in these youth tournaments lately.

Decent results for the Dutch so far. Gold in the 110m hurdles (m) and 3000m (m) and silver in the discus throw (m), only behind GB in the medal table. Some noteworthy medals for David Pronk with a PB in 110m hurdles and Yannick Rolvink with a national U18 record in the discus throw. But the real deal is Niels Laros, winner of the 3000m. I'm expecting another gold tomorrow when he runs the 1500m, he already took the 1500m championship record in the heats. He's an incredibly talented middle distance runner, way ahead of his age group. I first heard about him when he joined the elite squad in their annual South Africa training camp aged 17 last spring.

- and - in the semi finals. Apparently a 17 years old Dutch girl is topscorer of the tournament so far, Lola Moolhuizen. Somehow our waterpolo team always finds new young talents that rise really quickly (and sometimes retire really quickly as well). True test for the team comes now versus more experienced opposition I guess.

I think it will be a close game today. The Dutch are also a very young team with a few new faces that joined after Tokyo. And I feel like Greece and the Netherlands are usually around the same level in waterpolo, competing for those last few Olympic qualifying spots the past couple of Games.

[hide] Men's Tournament Playoffs June 27th, 2022 8 Nations, the 4 winning Nations will qualify for the Quarterfinals Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 27th 2022, h. 14:00 Montenegro 3 Japan June 27th 2022, h. 15:30 Georgia 5 Croatia June 27th 2022, h. 17:00 Italy 3 Australia June 27th 2022, h. 18:30 South Africa 4 United States [/hide]

Probably too late for the Dutch Mike Schloesser who has dominated the compound class for the last few years. So I remain neutral about this

European Championships U18 starting 4-8 July in Jerusalem. The Dutch team consists of 19 athletes in total. Four of them are 400m hurdlers. Wonder if that's some sort of early Bol effect already.

I know I'm biased because we won a medal, but I really enjoyed that mixed medley. It's chaos, but in the end the finish was super close with the exception of the USA.

Rome, Italy World Championships 2022 Women: 1. Duda/Ana Patricia 2. Brukovic/Brandie 3. Müller/Tillmann Men: 1. Mol/Sorum 2. Renato/Vitor Felipe 3. Andre/George I always had the feeling that Duda/Ana Patricia had the potential to win tournaments, but they just underperformed in the world tour in the beginning. And very surprising silver medalists.

Bol takes another Diamond League win, but this time it's the Australian one in the men's 800m. Happy to see PB's by Klaver in the 400m (50.80) and Van Diepen in the 800m (1:44.14) Edit: apparently the 800m was originally won by Benjamin Robert but he was disqualified.

That football qualification document is ridiculous. TBD... Also really wondering why there's 16 male teams and 12 female teams, when the women's Olympic tournament has far more pedigree in the sport.

Early exit by Stam/Schoon. They peaked too early this season, when the other teams were only warming up. Four Brazilian teams left in the tournament on the mens side is also a pretty impressive statistic. Norwegians Mol/Sorum still looking like the tournament favorites though.

[hide] Women's Tournament Preliminary Round June 20th - June 24th, 2022 16 Nations, 4 Groups, the 1st-placed Nation from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals. The 2nd-and 3rd-placed Nations from each Group will qualify for the Playoffs. Group A Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 20th 2022, h. 19:30 Canada 2 Italy June 20th 2022, h. 21:00 Hungary 6 Colombia June 22nd 2022, h. 19:30 Colombia 5 Canada June 22nd 2022, h. 21:00 Italy 3 Hungary June 24th 2022, h. 19:30 Italy 7 Colombia June 24th 2022, h. 21:00 Hungary 1 Canada Group B Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 20th 2022, h. 18:00 South Africa 5 United States June 20th 2022, h. 19:30 Netherlands 7 Argentina June 22nd 2022, h. 18:00 Argentina 4 South Africa June 22nd 2022, h. 19:30 United States 1 Netherlands June 24th 2022, h. 18:00 United States 9 Argentina June 24th 2022, h. 19:30 Netherlands 7 South Africa Group C Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 20th 2022, h. 18:00 New Zealand 1 Brazil June 20th 2022, h. 19:30 Kazakhstan 9 Australia June 22nd 2022, h. 18:00 Australia 6 New Zealand June 22nd 2022, h. 19:30 Brazil 3 Kazakhstan June 24th 2022, h. 18:00 Brazil 4 Australia June 24th 2022, h. 19:30 Kazakhstan 3 New Zealand Group D Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 20th 2022, h. 18:00 Greece 7 Thailand June 20th 2022, h. 19:30 France 2 Spain June 22nd 2022, h. 18:00 Spain 3 Greece June 22nd 2022, h. 19:30 Thailand 4 France June 24th 2022, h. 18:00 Thailand 8 Spain June 24th 2022, h. 19:30 France 3 Greece Top 3 Place 1st 2nd 3rd Nation USA NED ITA Men's Tournament Preliminary Round June 21st - June 25th, 2022 16 Nations, 4 Groups, the 1st-placed Nation from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals. The 2nd-and 3rd-placed Nations from each Group will qualify for the Playoffs. Group A Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 21st 2022, h. 19:30 Brazil 3 Georgia June 21st 2022, h. 21:00 Montenegro 1 Hungary June 23rd 2022, h. 19:30 Georgia 8 Montenegro June 23rd 2022, h. 21:00 Hungary 5 Brazil June 25th 2022, h. 19:30 Brazil 4 Montenegro June 25th 2022, h. 21:00 Hungary 6 Georgia Group B Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 21st 2022, h. 18:00 Germany 2 Japan June 21st 2022, h. 19:30 Greece 4 Croatia June 23rd 2022, h. 18:00 Croatia 6 Germany June 23rd 2022, h. 19:30 Japan 3 Greece June 25th 2022, h. 18:00 Japan 5 Croatia June 25th 2022, h. 19:30 Greece 3 Germany Group C Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 21st 2022, h. 18:00 South Africa 3 Italy June 21st 2022, h. 19:30 Canada 4 Spain June 23rd 2022, h. 18:00 Spain 3 South Africa June 23rd 2022, h. 19:30 Italy 5 Canada June 25th 2022, h. 18:00 Italy 2 Spain June 25th 2022, h. 19:30 Canada 2 South Africa Group D Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 21st 2022, h. 18:00 Australia 3 Kazakhstan June 21st 2022, h. 19:30 United States 4 Serbia June 23rd 2022, h. 18:00 Serbia 3 Australia June 23rd 2022, h. 19:30 Kazakhstan 7 United States June 25th 2022, h. 18:00 Kazakhstan 9 Serbia June 25th 2022, h. 19:30 United States 4 Australia Top 3 Place 1st 2nd 3rd Nation SRB CRO MNE [/hide]

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Men's 400m Freestyle Day 1 June 18th 2022 Mack Horton Elijah Winnington Felix Auboeck Guilherme Costa Fernando Scheffer Ji Xinjie Lukas Martens x Daniel Jervis Marco De Tullio Danas Rapsys x Ahmed Hafnaoui x Trey Freeman Kieran Smith Any Other Athlete Women's 400m Freestyle Day 1 June 18th 2022 Kiah Melverton Lani Pellister Summer McIntosh x Li Bingjie Tang Muhan Isabel Gose Waka Kobori Miyu Namba Erika Fairweather Merve Tuncel Katie Ledecky x Leah Smith x Any Other Athlete Men's 400m Individual Medley Day 1 June 18th 2022 Brendon Smith Wang Shun Leon Marchand x Duncan Scott x Brodie Williams Alberto Razzetti Tomoru Honda Daiya Seto x Lewis Clareburt Jeremy Desplanches Carson Foster Chase Kalisz Any Other Athlete Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Day 1 June 18th 2022 Australia Brazil China x Germany Great Britain x Hungary Italy Netherlands United States x Any Other Nation Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Day 1 June 18th 2022 Australia x Canada China France Great Britain Hungary Italy Japan Netherlands Sweden x United States x Any Other Nation Men's 100m Breaststroke Day 2 June 19th 2022 Zac Stubblety-Cook x Felipe Franca Silva Joao Luiz Gomes Yan Zibei Lucas Matzerath Fabian Schwingenschloegl James Wilby Nicolo Martinenghi x Ryuya Mura Andrius Sidlauskas Arno Kamminga x Michael Andrew Nic Fink Any Other Athlete Women's 100m Butterfly Day 2 June 19th 2022 Brianna Throssell Lana Pudar Katarine Savard x Zhang Yufei x Emilie Beckmann Marie Wattel x Anna Ntountounaki Elena Di Liddo Louise Hansson Claire Curzan Torri Huske Any Other Athlete Men's 50m Butterfly Day 2 June 19th 2022 Gabriel Santos Nicholas Santos Maxime Grousset Florent Manaudou x Benjamin Proud Szebastian Szabo x Naoki Mizunuma Nyls Korstanje Thomas Verhoeven Diogo Ribeiro Michael Andrew Caeleb Dressel x Any Other Athlete Women's 200m Individual Medley Day 2 June 19th 2022 Kaylee McKeown x Mary-Sophie Harvey Sydney Pickrem Abbie Wood Katinka Hosszu x Anastasia Gorbenko Yui Ohashi x Rika Omoto Kristen Romano Maria Ugolkova Leah Hayes Alex Walsh Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Freestyle Day 3 June 20th 2022 Zac Incerti Elijah Winnington Felix Auboeck Fernando Scheffer Ji Xinjie Lukas Martens x Thomas Dean Duncan Scott x Katsuhiro Matsumoto Hwang Sunwoo Danas Rapsys David Popovici x Drew Kibler Kieran Smith Any Other Athlete Women's 1500m Freestyle Day 3 June 20th 2022 Moesha Johnson Lani Pallister Kristel Kobrich Li Bingjie x Viktoria Mihalyvari-Farkas Simona Quadarella x Miyu Namba Merve Tuncel Katie Grimes Katie Ledecky x Any Other Athlete Women's 100m Backstroke Day 3 June 20th 2022 Kaylee McKeown x Kylie Masse Taylor Ruck Emma Terebo Medi Harris Anastasia Gorbenko Kira Toussaint x Maaike De Waard Louise Hansson Claire Curzan Regan Smith x Any Other Athlete Men's 100m Backstroke Day 3 June 20th 2022 Any Athlete from Australia x Xu Jiayu Yohann Ndoye-Brouard Mewen Tomac Luke Greenbank x Apostolos Christou Thomas Ceccon Ryosuke Irie Robert Glinta Hunter Armstrong Ryan Murphy x Any Other Athlete Women's 100m Breaststroke Day 3 June 20th 2022 Yu Jingyao Tang Qianting Ida Hulkko Anna Elendt Arianna Castiglioni Benedetta Pilato x Reona Aoki Kotryna Teterevkova Tatjana Schoenmaker x Lara Van Niekerk Sophie Hansson Lilly King x Annie Lazor Any Other Athlete Men's 800m Freestyle Day 4 June 21st 2022 Samuel Short Elijah Winnington Felix Auboeck Guilherme Costa Any Chinese Athlete Lukas Martens Florian Wellbrock x Daniel Jervis Any Italian Athlete Henrik Christiansen Mykhailo Romanchuk x Charlie Clark Bobby Finke x Any Other Athlete Women's 200m Freestyle Day 4 June 21st 2022 Mollie O'Callaghan Madi Wilson Summer McIntosh x Penny Oleksiak x Tang Muhan Yang Junxuan Barbora Seemanova Charlotte Bonnet Freya Anderson Siobhan Haughey x Leah Smith Claire Weinstein Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Butterfly Day 4 June 21st 2022 Leonardo De Deus Chen Juner Wang Kuan-Hung Leon Marchand x James Guy x Tamas Kenderesi Kristof Milak x Tomoru Honda Krzysztof Chmielewski Chad Le Clos Noe Ponti Trenton Julian Luca Urlando Any Other Athlete Men's 50m Breaststroke Day 4 June 21st 2022 Joao Gomes Caio Pumputis Lucas Matzerath James Wilby x Itay Goldfaden Simone Cerasuolo Nicolo Martinenghi x Jan Kozakiewicz Huseyin Sakci Michael Andrew Nic Fink x Any Other Athlete Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay Day 4 June 21st 2022 Australia x Brazil Canada China France Germany Great Britain x Hungary Italy Japan Netherlands South Africa Sweden United States x Any Other Nation Women's 200m Butterfly Day 5 June 22nd 2022 Elizabeth Dekkers Lana Pudar Summer McIntosh x Zhang Yufei x Zhu Jiaming Laura Stephens Katinka Hosszu Boglarka Kapas Kina Hayashi Ana Monteiro Hali Flickinger Regan Smith x Any Other Athlete Men's 100m Freestyle Day 5 June 22nd 2022 Any Australian Athlete Maxime Grousset Rafael Miroslaw Lewis Burras Tom Dean x Nandor Nemeth Alessandro Miressi Hwang Sunwoo David Popovici x Andrej Barna Brooks Curry Caeleb Dressel x Any Other Athlete Women's 50m Backstroke Day 5 June 22nd 2022 Bronte Job Kylie Masse x Ingrid Wilm Mimosa Jallow Analia Pigree Medi Harris Silvia Scalia Maaike De Waard Kira Toussaint x Katharine Berkoff Regan Smith x Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Individual Medley Day 5 June 22nd 2022 Finlay Knox Wang Shun Leon Marchand x Tom Dean x Duncan Scott x Daiya Seto Lewis Clareburt Tomoe Hvas Matthew Sates Hugo Gonzalez Jeremy Desplanches Carson Foster Chase Kalisz Any Other Athlete Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay Day 5 June 22nd 2022 Australia Brazil Canada x China x Hong Kong Hungary Italy Japan Sweden United States x Any Other Nation Women's 100m Freestyle Day 6 June 23rd 2022 Mollie O'Callaghan Shayna Jack Penny Oleksiak x Kayla Sanchez Yang Junxuan Zhang Yufei Marie Wattel Anna Hopkin Siobhan Haughey x Sarah Sjostrom x Claire Curzan Torri Huske Any Other Athlete Women's 200m Breaststroke Day 6 June 23rd 2022 Jenna Strauch Kelsey Wog Yu Jingyao Molly Renshaw Abbie Wood Francesca Fangio Kotryna Teterevkova x Kaylene Corbett Tatjana Schoenmaker x Sophie Hansson Lisa Mamie Kate Douglass Lilly King x Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Backstroke Day 6 June 23rd 2022 Joshua Edwards-Smith Mitch Larkin Xu Jiayu Any French Athlete Luke Greenbank x Adam Telegdy Ryosuke Irie Radoslaw Kawecki Pieter Coetze x Oleksander Zheltyakov Shaine Casas Ryan Murphy x Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Breaststroke Day 6 June 23rd 2022 Zac Stubblety-Cook x Qin Haiyang Matti Mattsson James Wilby x Yu Hanaguruma Ryuya Mura Dmitriy Balandin Caspar Corbeau Arno Kamminga x Erik Persson Nic Fink Charlie Swanson Any Other Athlete Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay Day 6 June 23rd 2022 Australia x Brazil China Germany Great Britain x Hungary Italy Japan United States x Any Other Nation Women's 50m Butterfly Day 7 June 24th 2022 Zhang Yufei x Emilie Beckmann Farida Osman Melanie Henique Marie Wattel x Anna Ntountounaki Maaike De Waard Louise Hansson x Sara Junevik Claire Curzan Torri Huske Any Other Athlete Men's 50m Freestyle Day 7 June 24th 2022 Bruno Fratus x Joshua Liendo Maxime Grousset Florent Manaudou Lewis Burras Benjamin Proud Kristian Gkolomeev Thomas De Boer x Jesse Puts Any Polish Athlete Bjoern Seeliger Michael Andrew Caeleb Dressel x Any Other Athlete Men's 100m Butterfly Day 7 June 24th 2022 Matthew Temple Josif Miladinov Joshua Liendo James Guy Kristof Milak x Szebastian Szabo x Federico Burdisso Katsuhiro Matsumoto Naoki Mizunuma Jakub Majerski Noe Ponti Michael Andrew Caeleb Dressel x Any Other Athlete Women's 200m Backstroke Day 7 June 24th 2022 Kaylee McKeown x Kylie Masse x Taylor Ruck Liu Yaxin Peng Xuwei Katalin Burian Dora Molnar Anastasia Gorbenko Margherita Panziera x Phoebe Bacon Rhyan White Any Other Athlete Women's 800m Freestyle Day 7 June 24th 2022 Kiah Melverton Lani Pellister Summer McIntosh x Li Bingjie Tang Muhan Isabel Gose Ajna Kesely Simona Quadarella x Any Japanese Athlete Merve Tuncel Katie Ledecky x Leah Smith Any Other Athlete Mixed 4x100m Freestyle Relay Day 7 June 24th 2022 Australia x Brazil Canada China France Great Britain x Hungary Japan Netherlands United States x Any Other Nation Men's 50m Backstroke Day 8 June 25th 2022 Isaac Cooper x Yohann Ndoye-Brouard Ole Braunschweig Apostolos Christou Any Italian Athlete Ryosuke Irie Andrew Jeffcoat Ksawery Masiuk Robert Glinta Pieter Coetze x Hugo Gonzalez Hunter Armstrong x Justin Ress Any Other Athlete Women's 50m Breaststroke Day 8 June 25th 2022 Chelsea Hodges Jhennifer Conceicao Ida Hulkko Anastasia Gorbenko Arianna Castiglioni Benedetta Pilato x Reona Aoki Ruta Meilutyte x Tatjana Schoenmaker Lara Van Niekerk Sophie Hansson Lilly King x Annie Lazor Any Other Athlete Men's 1500m Freestyle Day 8 June 25th 2022 Felix Auboeck Guilherme Costa Lukas Martens x Florian Wellbrock x Daniel Jervis Akos Kalmar Daniel Wiffen Gregorio Paltrinieri x Henrik Christiansen Ahmed Hafnaoui Sergii Frolov Mykhailo Romanchuk Charlie Clark Bobby Finke Any Other Athlete Women's 50m Freestyle Day 8 June 25th 2022 Meg Harris Shayna Jack x Any Chinese Athlete Melanie Henique Marie Wattel x Anna Hopkin Any Dutch Athlete Katarzyna Wasick Sarah Sjostrom x Erika Brown Torri Huske Any Other Athlete Women's 400m Individual Medley Day 8 June 25th 2022 Jenna Forrester Tessa Cieplucha Summer McIntosh Ge Chutong Abbie Wood Katinka Hosszu x Viktoria Mihalyvari-Farkas Yui Ohasi x Ageha Tanigawa Deniz Ertan Katie Grimes x Emma Weyant Any Other Athlete Men's 4x100m Medley Relay Day 8 June 25th 2022 Australia x Brazil Canada China France Great Britain x Hungary Italy Japan Netherlands United States x Any Other Nation Women's 4x100m Medley Relay Day 8 June 25th 2022 Australia x Canada China France Great Britain Hungary x Italy Japan Netherlands Sweden United States x Any Other Nation [/hide]

European Championships U22 in Vlissingen: Women: 1. Alvarez/Moreno 2. Windeleff/Bisgaard 3. Khmil/Lazarenko Men: 1. Ahman/Nilsson 2. Fokerots/Rinkevics 3. Hammarberg/Grossig

Last day of pools tomorrow. No major upsets so far really https://en.volleyballworld.com/beachvolleyball/competitions/beach-volleyball-world-championships-rome-2022/schedule/

World cup in Leogang this weekend: Women: 1. Leona Lecomte 2. Jenny Rissveds 3. Laura Stigger Men: 1. Mathias Flückiger 2. Nino Schurter 3. Alan Hatherly Jenny Rissveds really is back at the top level this season with another podium finish! Looks like Pidcock wasn't there on the mens side.

Lucas van Klaveren scores a huge PB in the NCAA championships: 8105 points. 4th place at the championships and the 12th Dutch decathlete ever over 8000 points. The decathlon was won by Ayden Owens-Delerme with 8457 points.

Last I heard she had a mental dip after Tokyo and is now taking a slightly longer preparation before racing again.

Had a great experience in Hengelo today at the FBK games! Highlights for me were both the 400m hurdles and for some reason the javelin.

Jurmala, Latvia Elite tournament Women: 1. Pavan/Melissa 2. Barbara/Carol 3. Duda/Ana Patricia Men: 1. Nicolai/Cottafava 2. Cherif/Ahmed 3. Andre/George Two completely different podiums in the two weeks leading up to the world championships happening in two weeks. Next stop: Rome, Italy World Championships 10-19 June AND Vlissingen, Netherlands European U22 Championships 9-12 June

Sydney McLaughlin ran a 51.90 400mH, 3rd all-time time. But apparently two hurdles were not in the right place so it might not be ratified (homologated??)

50.90 PB for Lieke Klaver in the 400m, even if that was only 4th place in the race. Doesn't change her place in the Dutch all-time list, as Lisanne de Witte (50.77) and Femke Bol (50.37) have both ran faster.

And my personal favorite straight after: Monday - Fanny Blankers-Koen Games, Hengelo

I'll be watching some live sports next weekend at the FBK Games (athletics)! Other than that I've been watching the Giro almost daily, watching various athletics meets, beach volleyball livescores, mountainbiking and football.