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I believe it's not a bad thing the sport moment of the year is from a major sport. These are the sports that most of us watch, the memories that we share. Even if a moment in a smaller sport was exciting for me, as a community these big moments on swimming, athletics, tennis, etc. unite us. That said, my personal sport moment of the year (MvdP road cycling world championship) isn't nominated. But in the end nothing beats watching that incredible race together with my dad, just like when I was young.

Yeah this definitely includes all of the big names, the only Dutch swimmer I can even think of that's missing is Tessa Giele (who won a surprising 50m butterfly gold in the short course European Champs recently). I do like the inclusion of unproven young talents Van Wijk and Van Kalmthout who will get a chance to prove themselves on the 4x100m freestyle roster.

Bellingham is a good call for breakthrough of the year actually! I hadn't thought of him yet, because I don't really associate football with Totallympics/Olympics. In hindsight I would've replaced Finucane or Tebogo on my list with him. #1: Jordan Stolz - Speed skating #2: Puck Pieterse - Mountainbike #3: Qin Haiyang - Swimming #4: Letsile Tebogo - Athletics #5: Emma Finucane - Track cycling #6: Anna Hall - Athletics

Wish I could've voted for six Dutch sport moments of the year SPORT MOMENT OF THE YEAR for any sport moment from 2023 #1: Femke Bol charging to 4x400m World Championship gold a few days after her fall in the mixed relay #2: Men's team sprint taking back their world title in a head-to-head race vs Australia #3: Sifan Hassan winning the London and Chicago marathons #4: Mathieu van der Poel winning the road cycling world championship even after a fall #5: Wout Pouls winning his first Tour de France stage #6: Karolien Florijn dominating every single sculls rowing race including the world championship

Couldn't think of six (non-Dutch) nominees for every category, but I just sent in my vote: BEST MALE ATHLETE for sportsmen in Olympic sports #1: Leon Marchand - Swimming #2: Noah Lyles - Athletics #3: Mathieu van der Poel - Cycling #4: Jonas Vingegard - Cycling #5: Kelvin Kiptum - Athletics #6: Daiki Hashimoto - Gymnastics BEST FEMALE ATHLETE for sportswomen in Olympic sports #1: Sifan Hassan - Athletics #2: Faith Kipyegon - Athletics #3: Kaylee McKeown - Swimming #4: Mollie O'Callaghan - Swimming #5: Lotte Kopecky - Cycling #6: Janja Garnbret - Sport Climbing BEST NON-OLYMPIC ATHLETE for athletes in Non-Olympic sports and disciplines #1: Killian Jornet - Trail running BEST YOUTH ATHLETE for athletes up to 18 years old (born after January 1st, 2005) (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) #1: Summer McIntosh - Swimming #2: Niels Laros - Athletics #3: Kaylia Neymour - Algeria #4: #5: #6: BEST MEN'S TEAM for national men's teams or groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) #1: Volleyball team #2: Team sprint - Track cycling #3: Handball team #4: #5: #6: BEST WOMEN'S TEAM for national women's teams or groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) #1: Football team #2: Waterpolo team #3: Volleyball team #4: Handball team #5: Freestyle relay teams - Swimming #6: BEST DOUBLES/PAIR OR MIXED TEAM for doubles and pairs or mixed teams and groups (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) #1: Duda/Ana Patricia - Beach Volleyball #2: Mixed relay team (Velzeboer/Schulting/Van 't Wout/De Laat) - Short track speed skating #3: Bodnar/Radis - Rowing #4: McCarthy/O'Donovan - Rowing #5: Perusic/Schweiner - Beach Volleyball #6: BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR for the most improved athlete (aged 19 or over) or national team (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) #1: Jordan Stolz - Speed skating #2: Puck Pieterse - Mountainbike #3: Qin Haiyang - Swimming #4: Letsile Tebogo - Athletics #5: Emma Finucane - Track cycling #6: Anna Hall - Athletics COMEBACK OF THE YEAR for athletes or national teams who made a comeback performance in 2023 (including Olympic, Non-Olympic and Paralympic sports) #1: Simone Biles - Gymnastics #2: Ruta Meilutyte - Swimming #3: Laura Aarts - Waterpolo (retired goalkeeper came back to the team and helped them become world champions) #4: Katarina Johnson-Thompson - Athletics #5: #6: SPORT MOMENT OF THE YEAR for any sport moment from 2023 #1: Femke Bol charging to 4x400m World Championship gold a few days after her fall in the mixed relay #2: Simone Biles winning four golds in her return to the Antwerpen gymnastics hall #3: Mollie O'Callaghan 200m freestyle world record #4: / / Team Jumbo-Visma winning all three Grand Tours with different riders #5: #6:

Thank you for the reminder, I was definitely intending to vote but I've been very busy at work, so most evenings I'm too tired to sit down for a proper list of all the categories. I hope to get to it tonight or tomorrow!

Imagine drawing the reigning World champion in your World Championship group phase, the reigning European champion in your Nations League group phase and then the new world champion in the next round.

Felt like scrolling through the Olympic schedule again! Looking forward to watch: Day 10 Monday 5 August Athletics Beach volleyball round of 16 Basketball 3x3 finals Field hockey W quarterfinals Track cycling Potentially: Gymnastics apparatus finals, Badminton W singles finals, Triathlon mixed relay, Volleyball M quarterfinals, sport climbing Day 11 Tuesday 6 August Athletics Beach volleyball quarterfinals (LIVE IN PARIS) Handball W quarterfinals Field Hockey M semi finals Track cycling Potentially: Volleyball and Water polo W quarterfinals and Football W semi finals, sport climbing Day 12 Wednesday 7 August Athletics Beach volleyball quarterfinals Field hockey W semi finals (LIVE IN PARIS) Track cycling Potentially: Handball M quarterfinals, Volleyball M semi finals, sport climbing Day 13 Thursday 8 August Athletics Beach volleyball semi finals Handball W semi finals Field Hockey M finals Swimming 10 km W Track cycling Potentially: Volleyball and Waterpolo W semi finals, sport climbing Day 14 Friday 9 August Athletics (LIVE IN PARIS) Beach volleyball finals Field hockey W finals Sport climbing boulder/lead M finals Track cycling Potentially: Handball M semi finals, Volleyball M bronze final Day 15 Saturday 10 August Athletics Beach volleyball finals Handball W finals Sport climbing boulder/lead W finals Track cycling Potentially: Football W final, Volleyball M finals, W bronze final, Waterpolo W final Day 16 Sunday 11 August Athletics Track Cycling Volleyball W finals Potentially: Handball M finals Closing ceremony

I'm super impressed by Caspar Corbeau this tournament, with a 100m breaststroke bronze and now 200m breaststroke gold he has really stepped up to the elite level. I'm excited to see how Kamminga Corbeau and Tes Schouten keep developing as a training group to compete for the medals in Paris! Meanwhile Toussaint is still a force to be reckoned with in the specific context of backstroke in a European short course tournament.

I like this solution

You forgot the classic wintersport of Beach Volleyball Pro Tour Finals in the scorching heat of Doha!

Absolute scenes in the Nation's League tonight, what are we watching!?

If I stick to five, I'd say: Athletics 400mH W Athletics 4x400m W Road cycling M race Cross country cycling W race Swimming 100m freestyle W If Femke Bol, Mathieu van der Poel, Puck Pieterse and Marrit Steenbergen all win a medal that would be amazing! I also wanted to include the athletics 400m W, road marathons, rowing w1x, beach volleyball and sport climbing (boulder+lead), but five was not much...

I agree with Bonevacia, absolutely deserves it! Some other candidates in my opinion would be Sharon van Rouwendaal, Marit Bouwmeester, Abdi Nageeye, Roy van den Berg, Margot van Geffen or Eva de Goede. I could also see them going for Menno van Gorp, who is a pioneer and former world champion in Breaking.

The video service on the website was broken for me as well recently, it did not allow me to filter by sport (making it impossible to find anything you're looking for). Luckily the links in this thread still work perfectly. Thank you @hckošice! I've been slowly watching the badminton tournament as something on the side when there's nothing left to see on tv or youtube.

In an earlier thread I made this prediction, if I had to update I would downscale Breaking to 0-1 medal, switch Maike van der Duijn (omnium) for men's Madison and add maybe 1-2 more rowing medals. But for a best case prediction let's add: archery mixed team, Mathieu van der Poel (cross country or road race), rowing M1x and M8-, Sailing Nacra17 (Van der Meer/Bouwer) and a gymnastics medal (Naomi Visser, Sanna Veerman or Sanne Wevers?) For a total of 17-40 medals

Well done @rafalgorka!! It's been great following along your prediction and checking out how my nation is doing in them, almost like a real sport

Another nice bit of Olympic pre-fun! I'm looking forward to watching: Day 1 Saturday 27 July Road cycling time trials Swimming Group stage games of Dutch teams Day 2 Sunday 28 July Mountain bike W Cross-country final Skateboarding W Street final Swimming Group stage games of Dutch teams Potentially: Archery W final, Canoe Slalom W K1 final Day 3 Monday 29 July Mountain bike M Cross-country final Swimming Group stage games of Dutch teams Potentially: Archery M final, Canoe Slalom M C1 final Day 4 Tuesday 30 July Judo W -63kg and M -81kg Rowing semifinals Swimming Group stage games of Dutch teams Potentially: Gymnastics W Team finals, M Triathlon Day 5 Wednesday 31 July Judo W -70kg and M -90kg Rowing M4x and W4x finals Swimming Group stage games of Dutch teams Potentially: W Triathlon, Canoe Slalom W C1 final Day 6 Thursday 1 August BMX Racing quarterfinals Judo W -78kg and M -100kg Rowing W2x, M2x, W4- and M4- finals Sailing Skiff medal races Swimming Group stage games of Dutch teams Potentially: Gymnastics W all-around final, Canoe Slalom M K1 final Day 7 Friday 2 August Archery mixed team finals Athletics BMX Racing finals Judo +78kg and M +100kg Rowing M2-, W2-, LM2x and LW2x finals Sailing Windsurfing medal races Swimming Group stage games of Dutch teams Potentially: Badminton mixed doubles final Day 8 Saturday 3 August Athletics Judo mixed team Road Cycling M race Rowing M8-, W8-, M1x and W1x finals Swimming Group stage games of Dutch teams Potentially: Gymnastics apparatus finals, Archery W finals, Badminton women doubles final Day 9 Sunday 4 August Athletics Road Cycling W race Swimming Group stage games of Dutch teams Potentially: Gymnastics apparatus finals, Archery M finals, Badminton mendoubles final So much to look forward to! Like usually the friday and saturday in the middle of the games are some of the busiest days with everything going on simultaneously. I'll check out the 2nd week schedule another day.

Another improvement of her own national record for Schouten and another victory over Strauch who won silver ahead of her at the world championships.

Not a big list like the others, but I have a few athletes I grew fond of because I watched them live at events in the Netherlands. In Paris I will cheer for: Volleybal Men team and Bartosz Kurek. Javelin thrower Anderson Peters Other than that I am a big fan of Nafi Thiam and Kevin Mayer in the athletics multi events.

Gaby Schloesser is still active in archerg and aiming for Paris 2024 as far as I know. Sadly Steve Wijler on the mens side hasn't had great resultd the past year I believe, so I'm not sure we can medal in mixed doubles again. That silver medal last year was really a great moment for them, they really made it a close contest versus Korea. Also I hope you are right that both Smulders sisters are in the BMX final. Even if they don't medal that will just be a great moment for them.

I think Nika Vos like at Worlds 2023 or a lesser known rower, as I believe the quadruple sculls has more priority at the moment.

And so the Dutch medal hopes end in the Quarters, these are really difficult draws for both pairs. I could see Duda/Ana Patricia taking gold and Ahman/Hellvig taking silver vs Mol/Sorum in the finals.

I don't think we will try De Jong or Youssifou in the double sculls again, at last worlds they were moved to the quadruple sculls and won gold. I think we sort of gave up on trying to beat Bodnar/Radis in the double sculls. Meanwhile I believe Twellaar/Broenink have a big chance of winning gold in the mens double sculls. Overall great predictions though, love reading through these!

Korfball of course! And for the winter Olympics we could add marathon speed skating and cyclocross (which would be a great addition to the Winter Olympics I think!)