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Love seeing all the schedules you guys make! I didn't want to create a full Tokyo schedule already (leaving some of the fun for the summer!), so instead I made a schedule of sports events I want to follow up to the start of the Games. Was a nice little practice run with the format I was considering. For the Games this would be on day-to-day instead of week-to-week basis, so it'll be quite the project: Excuse my Dutch The first rows are my favorite sports (athletics, volleyball, beach volleyball, cycling, mountainbike, football) and the grey row at the bottom is various other interesting things.

Love seeing your spreadsheets! Makes me want to start my own already.

I definitely want to make an excel schedule with the timetables of all the Dutch athletes and sports I personally enjoy. I'm not sure if I can handle actually going for a nocturnal timeschedule though. I hope there will be enough replays and content to watch during the European daytime.

I wouldn't mind at all if the WCH short track results were copy pasted into Beijing 2022 after that display by Schulting

The entire Doha tournament is streamed live on youtube (Beach Volleyball World). I was watching some parts while working from home. Including that tense v match. Both teams lost multiple match points in the 3rd set as well.

Just a day after Bol wins gold in the 400m and 4x400m at the European Indoor Championship, Bol wins the 2nd stage of Paris-Nice!

Just caught up on the replays of the Dutch medals and interviews. Great final day! Femke Bol is definitely the big thing in Dutch athletics right now. Though when it comes to the Dafne Schippers comparison, I think the 100m/200m definitely has more status globally than the 400m hurdles. CCB rightly said that there was also a couple disappointments for the Dutch athletes, but all in all it feels like a succesful weekend. In addition to the medals I was happy to see 19 yo Zoë Sedney reaching the 60m hurdles final and to see Rik Taam close to the medals and scoring multiple PB's in the heptathlon. I've said it before, but I'm really enjoying the current crop of Dutch athletics talent, even if it is mostly a 400m project I guess. And it's always such a joy following these athletics tournaments! Following all of you here in the thread also puts various results by other nations into perspective. Thanks guys!

Zoë Sedney in the 60m hurdles finals with Nadine Visser! Good result already for her

That could mean Rik Taam is in a medal position? Definitely didn't expect that before the tournament!

Looks like no one has posted this one yet: Women's 400m: Lieke Klaver (51,21) At the National Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, feb. 21, 2021.

I'm not an adept memer, but this whole rise of Nyls van der Poel makes me think of the Doofenschmirz meme: If I had a nickel for every Van der Poel that is a freak of nature in endurance sports, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

What a stunt

This current generation of athletes with Nadine Visser, Lieke Klaver and Femke Bol is so much fun! Some of my favorite athletes in all sports right now. Not sure if this is the right the thread, but 18 year old Raphael Bouju als ran 6,86 in the 60m in Gent and qualified for the indoor EC.

Amazing day for Suzanne Schulting (her interviews on Dutch TV were pure bliss!). And I'm also really excited for Xandra Velzeboer who won bronze in the 500m at 19 years old! Looking forward to another day of (short track) speed skating tomorrow!

Speed skating on the TV, Dutch skaters in a variety of medal positions and snow outside. A perfect winter day! Thomas Krol was probably the biggest winner of the day. Edit: and Irene Schouten and Patrick Roest as well! I guess I just expected Krol the least.

That one was definitely on my list of moments to post! On the note of swimming: Beijing 2008, Maarten van der Weijden gold in 10 KM open water swimming.

Another Vancouver 2010 moment: Nicolien Sauerbrei's giant slalom gold medal. The first and only snow medal for ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdnBxYisZjg

I have also been reading all the memories! I definitely have some ideas for Dutch (and international) memories, though far from enough to fill 212 more days ;-) Luckily the Olympic channel did part of the work for me with this compilation!

It's so dependent on how many (important) events in each sport actually happened this year. As a result it feels like cycling just got the most opportunity to shine this year. There has been other sports, but often the events were far more limited in attendance and attention (athletics and swimming for example). Sportsman: Mathieu van der Poel Sportswoman: Anna van der Breggen Talent: Femke Bol Team: ??? (probably a rowing team after that successful European championship) Surely my follow Dutchmen will have some more original picks.

Do you know whether the Dutch matches will be broadcasted live somewhere? I assume NOS will only have summaries. There was a great one hour Ziggo Sport documentary released this week on the world championship by the way!

Looks like tomorrow is the day for both the women's football and field hockey finals, I hope we get to see Dutch teams in both of those! And then there's track cycling and athletics for the rest of the day and hopefully a semifinal in handball too. With some beach volleyball and sports climbing sprinkled in out of interest moreso than Dutch contenders.

Day 11 is could be a special day for the Netherlands with medal chances in track cycling (men's sprint) and gymnastics (men's horizontal bar, women's balance beam) and in a best case scenario in athletics (women's 200m). I don't exactly expect Sanne Wevers and Dafne Schippers guaranteed medals, but you know I can always hope And then there's water polo quarter finals, field hockey semifinals and beach volleyball quarter finals. If the Dutch contenders don't provide enough content, there is still sports climbing, men's volleyball quarters and the rest of the track cycling, athletics and gymnastics programs to watch.

Why must you do this to me! Great idea to watch all the highlights everyone mentions. I sometimes watch French sport highlights to work on my French, but this'll be a great way to be introduced to Italian, Hungarian(?) and Polish highlights among others!

This looks like a thread where I get to feel young... Sydney 2000 - I was a bit too young to remember these games, but here's an anecdote I've shared before. Pieter van den Hoogenband grew up just a couple streets behind my parents, so I do recall the ceremony we had in town when he returned. I got an autograph and touched his medals as a 5 year old! Athens 2004 - Van den Hoogenband again, obviously! Turin 2006 - I mostly recall the impressive showing of a young Ireen Wust. Beijing 2008 - the Dutch gold in women's water polo was big news here, just like the 4x100 freestyle women. The story of Maarten van der Weijden, who won gold in open water swimming after winning the battle against cancer. All in all, these were very memorable games. Vancouver 2010 - this memory is more vivid than any other... sitting in the living room with the whole family when Sven Kramer makes a wrong switch and gets dqed. Sad times. There was also the only Dutch medal in a snow event by Nicolien Sauerbrei. London 2012 - Probably the first Games I started following really closely. Epke Zonderland's gold on the horizontal bar stands out far and above, but also Ranomi Kromowidjojo winning the 50m and 100m freestyle. Sochi 2014 - Sven Kramer still not winning the Olympic 10.000m stands out sorely again, though the entire speed skating was dominated by the Dutch more than ever. Rio 2016 - By now it's so recent that it's hard to pick a specific memory. For some reason the lost bronze medal matches of the Handball and Volleyball women come to mind. And the horrible Annemiek van Vleuten crash. But also various international athletes standing out, like Usain Bolt, Mo Farah, Neymar Jr, Katie Ledecky and Simone Biles. Too many to mention really. PyeongChang 2018 - Again it's hard to choose with the Games being so recent, but Ireen Wust's 1500m and Kjeld Nuis's double come to mind. And Esmee Visser seemingly coming out of nowhere to win gold on the 5000m. Also the first big victory of Suzanne Schulting, let's hope she starts an era like Wust did in Turin 06

Agreed on all of this, plus I'll start following beachvolleyball RO16 'today'. Hopefully with Dutch male and female duos still competing. I've been loving this thread! Every night I check out the schedule for the next day and I already look forward to seeing everyone's reactions and predictions.