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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!)

I'd say the medal chances to look forward to so far for are: Day 1 - Ellen van Dijk and Demi Vollering (W individual time trial) Day 2 - Puck Pieterse (W cross-country), Arno Kamminga (M 100m breast) Day 3 - no big chances, but potentially Archery men team, Mathieu van der Poel (M cross-country), Maikel van der Vleuten (jumping), Tes Schouten (W 100m breast) Day 4 - Joanne van Lieshout (Judo W -63 kg) Day 5 - Sanne van Dijke (Judo W -70 kg), Marrit Steenbergen (W 100m free), men & women quadruple sculls

Day 6 could be a really great day for the ! We've got at least seven medal contenders in Rowing (M2x and W4-), Sailing (M+W Skiff), Judo (Guusje Steenhuis and Michael Korrel) and Swimming (Tes Schouten in W 200m breast).

That would be great! Maybe the Dutch NOS article was just confusing in its wording then, they mentioned it was picked by the hosts Tokyo and Paris but was not on LA's list as a host. If it becomes permanent that's still technically correct I guess. I hope you're right and I just misread it, thank you!

I haven't seen anyone mention it yet, but apparently sport climbing is out? That was by far my favorite of the new sports and a really great addition to the Olympic Programme. It surprises me as well, cause climbing is practiced a lot in the US and everywhere. Just a huge missed opportunity if climbing gets dropped honestly. This sport deserves 3 seperate medals for speed, lead and boulder.

I think it will depend on the race calendar for her just like on the mens side, if there is a Tour de France femmes before the Games that will be her main focus and I wouldn't see her beating the specialists Dygert, Brown, Van Dijk or Reusser. But who know, she has been grown really strong this year and the last.

For the womens time trial I have a gut feeling Ellen van Dijk is going to do something special. She's currently pregnant and she'll be 37 years old in Paris, but a time trial medal at the Olympics is her final goal before retiring and I think she might be able to win one behind Dygert and Brown.

The match versus Canada...

Ahh good old Johan Cruyff, man of many quotes!

So Finn Florijn (M4x) and Karolien Florijn (W1x) are both world champions. Imagine if they repeat this incredible achievement in Paris, has there ever been a family where father (Ronald Florijn, gold in Seoul 1988 and Atlanta 1996), son and sister are all Olympic champions? Very historic world championship for all around. It is starting to feel normal how dominant the Dutch rowers are, but after so many silvers and bronzes I have to keep reminding myself that a gold medal in rowing is still not an easy feat at all.

So far has won all games with a convincing 3-0 and now we face and will probably convincingly lose 0-3. Every game has felt a bit predictable to me, I was hoping we'd face some of the teams close to us in the ranking like , or .

Bit late to the party, but I was too busy partying to post... 4x400M WORLD CHAMPIONSSS!!!! What a massive performance by the whole team and Bol especially

Femke Bol was sooo happy! And I was so happy to see her so

Such a crazy depth on the 400m. It's quickly becoming my favorite distance. Would love to one day see a final with Paulino, Kaczmarek, Williams, McLaughlin, Miller-Uibo, Wilson and Bol.

Another NR for Laros!! Really showed himself at the very highest level, just needed 50m meters in his sprint (a common theme for the Dutch this week).

Very special evening for the Dutch! World champions in the 9.950m and 3x400m+1x350m!!