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But they are wrong.

Belgian media claim otherwise.

The Dutch tv commentator just talked about rumours about Schulting, and according to a newspaper article Schulting is training with the Dutch ST team. No decisions have been made yet: she will probably want to see how the OKT goes.

Apparently Groenewold suffered from travelling to Utah late, as did one of her teammates, while two others from that team did not. That will not be a factor later on. Groenewold was sensational at the Dutch Champs/World Cup qualifier, while Daleman was average. For Daleman to qualify she will have to drastically improve her times, and must hope some of her rivals have peaked too early/crumble under the pressure of the OKT. At the moment, in none of her three distances I would rate her in the top 4 of Dutch riders, let alone top 3. The riders in front of her have all proven this weekend that they’ve world class

I’ve tried to find some background and context, but can’t find any. She’s no longer part of the national ST squad and her comments after her failure to qualify for the Long Track world cups seemed to rule out a return to the short track. Angel Daleman did qualify for the LT world cups, but at the moment seems unlikely to qualify for the LT Olympics, looking at the results this weekend in Salt Lake City. There are currently just too many rivals in the Dutch team that are much faster than she is. I wonder if she’s contemplating a return to the short track, which would boost at the least our relay chances. The decisive qualifying LT tournament is of course still a few weeks away, so her fortunes could change.

Anouk Vetter (32), heptatlete, 2016 European Champion, Olympic silver in 2021 and silver at the 2022 and bronze at the 2017 and 2023 Worlds.

I try to avoid both the sailing and the NOS coverage at the Olympics (and most other events).

Marit Bouwmeester, most succesful female Olympic sailor, with two golds, one silver and one bronze medal.

Footnote: Yesterday Prins lost the 1500 metres by 0,04.

Yesterday: 500 metres Kok 37,00 and 37,10. Track record: 36,97

1000 metres: Wennemars 1.07,17, Prins 1.07,22 (with a suit that malfunctioned), De Boo 1.07,27. Track record is 1.07,08.

Conijn 6.41,48 over 5000 metres. 0.23 above the Dutch record, 2,46 above the WR.

Ria van Velzen (82). She swam a world record in the 100 metres backstroke in 1958, broke the record three more times, but finished “only” 7th in the Rome Olympic finale. She was European champion in 1962, and ended her career after the 1964 Olympics.

He was born in 2000, so calling him young is a bit of a stretch. Lavreysen was born in 1997, so just 3 years older.

Somehow Yakovlev always flatters to deceive.

On the top of my head I can think of just three Dutch athletes in the last 30 odd years that have competed at the Olympics at both cycling and speedskating. All three were sprinters, two of them won at least one medal over 1000 metres speedskating, the third won medals in the sprint event on the cycling track and in the points race.

Well, he was European short course champignons in 2023.

🇳🇱 no Dutch-Americans (anymore), but a significant element of players from what was formerly the Netherlands Antilles, and are now several separate entities. These players have a Dutch passport, since these entities are all part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. As I wrote on another thread, their inclusion in our Baseball team is the reason that team self-identifies as The Kingdom Of The Netherlands and not simply The Netherlands.

Annelous Lammerts 🇳🇱 (31) Formula Kite surfer, and Paris bronze medalist.

I advise you to look at the results of 2022 World Championships, one year after the Tokyo Olympics, where the Dutch team won seven medals in olympic events.

Or one group of athletes have retired after Paris, and another uses this year for other things, like world and olympic champion Florijn giving priority to her studies. And there is a new head coach.

Marianne Vos will not start on Saturday. Her father had a medical procedure a few days ago, and she has decided to not travel to Kigali and stay with her family.

De Volkskrant has a picture of Xavi Mo-Ajok on the front page of its sport section. Good day yesterday, with two medals in the women’s TT at the world champs and our women’s under 23 3x3 team winning the world title.

De Volkskrant has a picture of Xavi Mo-Ajok on the front page of its sport section. Good day yesterday, with two medals in the women’s TT at the world champs and our women’s under 23 3x3 team winning the world title.