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Some of our more 'secure' gold medals are definitely in this second week (Hassan, team sprint, hockey women's team), but let's hope everything works out now! Many of our close losses weren't necessarily medal favorites, but it was definitely disappointing to see two quarterfinals lost on penalties (women's football, men's hockey), various relays in 4th places (4x100m women, triathlon, judo, mixed 4x400m) and multiple golden scores for bronze lost in judo. Not to mention Van der Poel, women's cycling team and all the covid cases. The bad news has mostly subsided now though.

I have no idea if there's any truth to this feeling, but I feel like there's so many disappointments, close losses, etc. for the Dutch team already. It might just be that I'm more invested in sports than ever though. Kimman's gold in BMX and the start of the athletics and track cycling tournaments have done a lot to lift my mood though!

My new habit is simply living on a 5 hour delay: I start my day around 7AM like my regular schedule and put on the replay of the NOS broadcast that started at 2AM. Then I slowly work my way through the Tokyo day without checking the forum, reddit or news app. Tomorrow is not the biggest day from the Dutch perspective, I should be able to catch up to live in no time: Swimming 50m free m/w Field hockey men's QF vs Australia Diving 3m women's final Sailing laser radial medal race Water polo women pool match vs Canada Athletics semifinals 100mH women and 400mH men Beach volleyball ro16 Brouwer/Meeuwsen vs Mol/Sorum

Can't wait for the update of the 4th place ranking, we got 3 today! All of them in mixed team/relay events.

Just watched the replays including all semifinal heats this morning. What an emotional rollercoaster! More than pleased with a gold and bronze! A bit disappointed for Laura Smulders, I was rooting for her most of all. Luckily her sister overperformed. Never expected that bronze!

It's time we start adding some more golds to the tally! Another opportunity missed because of an unnecessary mistake today in rowing LW2x. Also we're 13/25 on the road to a medal record! Hopefully two more medals in rowing M8+ and BMX tomorrow.

There we go, first medal for Van Dijke!

It's not our Judo tournament at all yet, just like last games. Never expected Tjakadoea and Franssen to finish higher than Van 't End.

The second semi final was a bit anti-climactic after that thriller. Was really rooting for Van Dijke. It's a shame neither of my favorite Dutch judokas reached the final today.

Wow that was intense

Almost 10 minutes, somebody save these girls!

The eye of the Russian girl looks incredibly painful

TeamNL with one heck of a day! 7 medals and still 2 judokas in the race for a medal!

Wow, I never expected Dumoulin to come back with an Olympic silver medal! This one feels like gold! What an incredibly performace by teammates Roglic and Dumoulin.

I fear that when it comes to the knockout games the experience in your squad will shine through. Good luck next friday! Going to be a big game for both of us.

Definitely! I think it's 6 rowing finals tonight and there's a Dutch boat in all of them. Van der Breggen and Van Vleuten are both medal contenders in the time trial. And I believe tomorrow is our biggest chance at a Judo medal as well with Noel van 't End on the men's side and Sanne van Dijke on the women's side. We cannot end tomorrow without an additional medal!

I just watched the replay of our game vs China and the level of play really looks embarrassing. It's great that we've scored 21 goals in 3 matches, but it feels like I've seen 0 seconds of succesful defensive play. I'm not hopeful about our match vs USA at all.

Super messy Olympics for the Dutch so far, even if many of our medal chances are yet to come. A continuous stream of incidents in cycling: the women's road race, Van der Poels plank (or the lack thereof) and incidents with race staff for Kimmann and Van der Breggen. Too many covid cases, extra measures for our rowing team with all its medal candidates. And lastly we've had a bunch of really close 4th places, which always feels painful.

No new medals for the Dutch today, but we got some nice additions to the 4th and 5th place collection in triathlon, judo, mountainbike and dresdage!

I can't handle all these disappointments

That 59 in 6 arrows in the last round was unbeatable! Not looking good for the Dutch for bronze I fear.

Painful to see VDP exit while Pidcock rides away solo

I'm not having a good time at all

What a disaster that fall! Also Vader always starts super fast and then drops to the 8th - 15th range in the 2nd or 3rd lap...

My girlfriend has to work tomorrow, so getting up at 4AM for the men's 100m breast is not an option. So I'm looking at: 07:00 Swimming men's 100m breast final (Kamminga) (replay) 07:05 Tennis women's double (Bertens/Schuurs) 08:00 Mountainbike (Mathieu van der Poel) 09:15 Archery men's team (hopefully in finals!) 11:20 Waterpolo (AUS vs NED) 13:00 rest of my day, groceries, cleaning, etc. And if Oldenbeuving or Zwetsloot medal in skateboarding, I have to add that replay of course!