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Meyer shouldn’t be there. Everybody has to qualify so don’t see a reason why he should be exempted. 
 
beside that he could try achieving the norm somewhere else, eg in Ratingen 

The fight between NED and CAN will come down to their direct match. Whoever gets the win most likely gets also the quota. 
 
They have 4 more matches with both playing France & Korea, which they should win, and 2 other matches they should lose (on paper). So the direct match will be the key.

The big difference between the 2016/2018 successful Dutch team and the current one is the absence of an opposite like Lonneke Sloetjes.  Celeste Plak does not deliver the same consistency and number of points and I’m still not convinced that Damberink has what it takes.
 
So we’ve fallen back from being number 4 to 6 of the world (with 4th places at both the Rio Olympics and 2018 Worlds) to around 10 to 12. Good enough to scare a better team on our day and to make to the final 4 at the Europeans but not good enough to be competitive for prices at the World stage. 

Fight for that last ticket quite literally can't be tighter now after a great day (for NED) yesterday  
 

defeat  3-1. 
 
Big opportunity for points towards our World Ranking, and it wasn’t taken. Worst match of VNL for us…
 
Serbia had a C squad in action, and were 1-5 before this match, and yet we still couldn’t win. They’re expected to send an even weaker lineup to week 3, so to all of my Dutch friends enjoy your 3-0 win. 
 
KVR and Gray were horrific today, while Maglio, White, and Murmann were the highlights. 
 
Edit: O’Reilly had an off night as well. 

She’s a bit like Froome. An excellent rider, with a bland personality. My impression is that she’s not very popular in our country. Unlike for instance both Vos and Van Vleuten. She’s does not seem to have that “gun factor”, which poorly translates as goodwill factor. 

I’m oldfashioned, I read it in a newspaper

I’m oldfashioned, I read it in a newspaper

It certainly paid off, with Polling winning twice, including the decider, against us. Just saw an interview, where she said that when the draw made clear these two teams would meet, she had a premonition that she would have to fight twice. 

Polling is of course no longer at the top of her game. Also, she was very successful at Europeans, but somehow never at Worlds. On her day she can go far in Paris, but there is a reason she’s now starting for Italy: she hasn’t been the Dutch number one for years.

NL seems to have been promoted to a second male quotum, at the expense of GB.

Speedskating?

Noël van 't End lost against this guy, because he used a forbidden technique (according to the referee). But the referee only thought that because the "Lebanese" shouted so loudly, while nothing was wrong with Van 't End's technique. Why would he use such technique if he leads with wazari? It was clearly an act of the "Lebanese" and a wrong decision by the referee. Especially when he said to Van 't End: "You win ". So hopefully he loses his 3rd place fight.

NL seems to have been promoted to a second male quotum, at the expense of GB.

This should lead to instant disqualification for impersonating.
 
 

Thoughts and prayers 

The Canadian was unlucky too lose her bronze medal match. The Dutch commentators could not understand why she did not get the score and why her opponent did not get any shidos.

This should lead to instant disqualification for impersonating.
 
 

This should lead to instant disqualification for impersonating.
 
 

This should lead to instant disqualification for impersonating.
 
 

Van Lieshout the first Dutch female World Championship since 2009 (when Marhinde Verkerk won in Rotterdam).
 
 

Italy in Monday was won their first World Championship gold medal since 1991!!!

Van Lieshout the first Dutch female World Championship since 2009 (when Marhinde Verkerk won in Rotterdam).
 
 

thank you ..

I was on the other thread, I can’t reply to both at once