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Draw for the Women's European Championships 2022: Groep A (Ljubljana): Noorwegen, Hongarije, Kroatië , Zwitserland. Groep B (Celje): Denemarken, Zweden, Slovenië, Servië. Groep C (Skopje): Frankrijk, Nederland, Noord-Macedonië, Roemenië. Groep D (Podgorica): Polen, Montenegro, Duitsland, Spanje. Very balanced draw. The ECh are an important tournament for the Olympic qualification. Winners will qualify for Paris, other countries may qualify for one of the three qualification tournaments (depending the results of 2023 World Championships).

I'n really curious about Mathieu van der Poel too, but do we already know the parcours of the road races? I presume the finish will be at the Champs Elysées, but that's the only thing I can find about it.

Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004: those were the days! Pieter van den Hoogenband and Inge de Bruijn: I will never forget their achievements. I was 17 years old at the time and got so much inspiration from these two athletes. Pieter who defeated Ian Thorpe and Inge with all her world records after years in seclusion with her US-trainer.

A very early prediction. There were 288 Dutch athletes in Tokyo, I expect around 220 in Paris. The women's football players are not going to make it to the World Cup (and therefore not the OG) and the handball women are not so good anymore. The Netherlands will also qualify fewer athletes in swimming, sailing and rowing. Then the results. At the moment I only expect medals for the track cyclists, hockey teams and some athletes. The number of medals won in Tokyo (10-10-12) is not improved. Athletes to especially look forward to: Nienke Brinkman (marathon athletics) Sharon van Rouwendaal (marathon swimming) Marit Bouwmeester (sailing) Femke Bol (400 hurdles athletics) Hockey team (men) Katja Stam/Raisa Schoon (beach volleyball) Sanne Vermeer (judo).

Netherlands and one out of HUN/ITA/CAN will not qualify for the quarterfinal, and FRA or NZL/BRA will. This draw is ridiculous.

I like the other poll 'Imaginary Summer Olympics' more. Imo nice to go on with that poll.

First 4 countries from Pool A and D will play pool E in the Netherlands. First 4 countries from Pool B and C will play pool F in Poland. So there's a big chance for -

I (mostly) agree. But I expect Marijke Groenewoud in the top 8 for sure!

Still Ghiotto is a very nice skater to watch, unbelievable good technique and besides that a very nice person. I'm still hoping for a better result in the 10K?

Today's prediction: 1.Nils van der Poel 2.Davide Ghiotto 3.Bart Swings No medal for the Dutch men today. A goodbye for the best Dutch speedskater ever, Sven Kramer.

Irene Schouten in speedskating, because I like her a lot. Sjinkie Knegt in shorttrack, because he still misses one medal and because he recovered from severe burns. Last weekend there was a documentary about Sjinkies fire accident with intense images on Dutch TV. I got even more respect for him.

I voted for Turin 2006, the first time I visited the Games as a spectator. I remember every second of it. After Turin I visited Vancouver, which was pure magic. And 4 years ago I was in Pyeongchang. We achieved beautiful results, but being in Turin and Vancouver was so much more fun!

Medal hopes in only three sports: Skeleton women 0-1 Shorttrack 0-3 (women's relay, 1000 and 1500 meter; men no chance, but hey, it's shorttrack, so basically everyone can win like Bradbury) Speedskating 8-12 (women's teampursuit, 1000, 1500, 3000, 5000 and massstart; men's teampursuit, 1000, 1500, 5000) I predict something between 8 and 16 medals.

I do not understand it any more. Maybe you guys can help me. Can all Russian speedskaters participate in the Beijing Games? Even those who have ever been caught using doping? I heard Olga Fatkulina (a doper from the 2014 Games) saying she is qualified for Russia on the 500 and 1000 meter.

Same here, ik zat de eerste weken in een flinke post-Olympische dip, maar toen het schaatsseizoen eenmaal begon, kwamen ook de kriebels terug. Momenteel volg ik vooral schaatsen en shorttrack, maar heb ook nog wat baanwielrennen (WK en Champions League) en hockey (nationale competitie) meegepakt. Formule 1 vind ik totaal niet interessant, dus die hype gaat aan mij voorbij. Afgelopen zomer wel heel erg genoten, ondanks dat ik tijdens de Spelen veel ziek ben geweest. Hoogtepunten genoeg, maar voor mij waren de gouden tijdrit van Annemiek van Vleuten, het goud van Niek Kimmann en het zilver op de 4x400 heren de medailles waar ik nog regelmatig aan terugdenk. Nu uitkijken naar het OKT schaatsen. Helaas zal dat zonder publiek gereden worden. Welke sporten volg jij?

You can't get more Dutch than Schouten. The documentary is about family business on a tulip farm, where the spindle (mother) is lost due to a brain bleed. You can see how Schouten is part of the tulip business in addition to her skating career. It was an impressive documentary, so I could recommend it @heywoodu. Schouten is quite popular in the Netherlands and for a good reason. Our tulip girl :-).

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Men's 400m Ind. Medley Day 2 July 25th 2021 Brendon Smith Wang Shun Leon Marchand Max Litchfield Broadie Williams Any Hungarian Athlete Alberto Razzetti Daiya Seto x Yuki Ikari Lewis Clareburt Ilya Borodin x Chase Kalisz x Jay Litherland Any Other Athlete Men's 400m Freestyle Day 2 July 25th 2021 Jack McLoughlin x Elijah Winnington x Felix Auboeck Guilherme Da Costa Ji Xinjie Lukas Maertens Kieran Bird Gabriele Detti Marco De Tulio Danas Rapsys Martin Malyutin x Jake Mitchell Kieran Smith Any Other Athlete Women's 400m Ind. Medley Day 2 July 25th 2021 Sydney Pickrem Yu Yiting Aimee Willmott Katinka Hosszu x Viktoria Mihalyvari-Farkas Ilaria Cusinato Sara Franceschi Yui Ohashi Ageha Tanigawa Hali Flickinger x Emma Weyant x Any Other Athlete Women's 4x100m Free. Relay Day 2 July 25th 2021 Australia x Brazil Canada China Czech Republic Denmark France Germany Great Britain x Hong Kong Japan Netherlands Poland ROC Sweden United States x Women's 100m Butterfly Day 3 July 26th 2021 Emma McKeon x Anastasiya Shkurdai Maggie MacNeil x Zhang Yufei Marie Wattel Anna Ntountounaki Any Japanese Athlete Svetlana Chimrova Arina Surkova Louise Hansson Claire Curzan Torri Huske x Any Other Athlete Men's 100m Breaststroke Day 3 July 26th 2021 Ilya Shymanovich x Yan Zibei Lucas Matzerath Fabian Schwingenschloegl Adam Peaty x James Wilby Nicolo Martinenghi x Any Japanese Athlete Arno Kamminga Anton Chupkov Kirill Prigoda Michael Andrews Andrew Wilson Any Other Athlete Women's 400m Freestyle Day 3 July 26th 2021 Ariarne Titimus x Summer McIntosh Li Bingjie x Tang Muhan Isabel Gose Sarah Koehler Waka Kobori Miyu Namba Anna Egorova Anastasiya Kirpichnikova Katie Ledecky x Paige Madden Any Other Athlete Men's 4x100m Free. Relay Day 3 July 26th 2021 Australia x Brazil Canada France Germany Great Britain x Greece Hungary Italy Japan Netherlands Poland ROC x Serbia Switzerland United States Men's 200m Freestyle Day 4 July 27th 2021 Kyle Chalmers Felix Auboeck Tom Dean x Duncan Scott x Katsuhiro Matsumoto x Danas Rapsys David Popovici Ivan Girev Martin Malyutin Hwang Sun-woo Townley Haas Kieran Smith Any Other Athlete Women's 100m Backstroke Day 4 July 27th 2021 Kaylee McKeown x Emily Seebohm Kylie Masse x Taylor Ruck Kathleen Dawson Cassie Wild Margherita Panziera Kira Toussaint Anastasia Fesikova Maria Kameneva Regan Smith x Rhyan White Any Other Athlete Men's 100m Backstroke Day 4 July 27th 2021 Mitch Larkin Guilherme Basseto Marcus Thormeyer Xu Jiayu Yohann Ndoye Brouard Thomas Ceccon Ryosuke Irie Kliment Kolesnikov x Evgeny Rylov x Pieter Coetze Hunter Armstrong Ryan Murphy x Any Other Athlete Women's 100m Breaststroke Day 4 July 27th 2021 Chelsea Hodges Tang Qianting Molly Renshaw Sarah Vasey Martina Carraro Benedetta Pilato Alia Atkinson Any Japanese Athlete Evgenia Chikunova Yulia Efimova Tatjana Schoenmaker Sophie Hansson x Lydia Jacoby x Lilly King x Any Other Athlete Women's 200m Freestyle Day 5 July 28th 2021 Emma McKeon x Ariarne Titimus x Summer McIntosh Penny Oleksiak Yang Junxuan Barbora Seemanova Charlotte Bonnet Isabel Gose Freya Anderson Siobhan Haughey x Federica Pellegrini Katie Ledecky Allison Schmitt Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Butterfly Day 5 July 28th 2021 Any Australian Athlete Leonardo De Deus David Thomasberger James Guy Tamas Kenderesi x Kristof Milak x Federico Burdisso Tomoru Honda Daiya Seto x Aleksandr Kudashev Chad Le Clos Gunnar Bentz Zach Harting Any Other Athlete Women's 200m Ind. Medley Day 5 July 28th 2021 Kaylee McKeown x Bailey Andison Sydney Pickrem Yu Yiting Alicia Wilson Abbie Wood x Katinka Hosszu Anastasia Gorbenko Yui Ohashi Miho Teramura Kate Douglass Alex Walsh x Any Other Athlete Women's 1500m Freestyle Day 5 July 28th 2021 Maddy Gough Kiah Melverton Li Bingjie Wang Jianjiahe x Sarah Kohler x Martina Caramignoli Simona Quadarella Anastasia Kirpichnikova South Korea Katie Ledecky x Erica Sullivan Any Other Athlete Men's 4x200m Free. Relay Day 5 July 28th 2021 Australia x Brazil China France Germany Great Britain x Hungary Ireland Israel Italy Japan Poland ROC South Korea Switzerland United States x Men's 800m Freestyle Day 6 July 29th 2021 Jack McLoughlin Thomas Neil Felix Auboeck Guilherme Costa Florian Wellbrock x Daniel Jervis Gabriele Detti Gregorio Paltrinieri x Henrik Christiansen Aleksandr Egorov Mykhaylo Romanchuk x Michael Brinegar Bobby Finke Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Breststroke Day 6 July 29th 2021 Zac Stubblety-Cook x Matti Mattsson Marco Koch James Wilby Ryuya Mura Shoma Sato x Dmitriy Balandin Arno Kamminga Anton Chupkov x Kirill Prigoda Nic Fink Andrew Wilson Any Other Athlete Women's 200m Butterfly Day 6 July 29th 2021 Brianna Throssell Zhang Yufei x Yu Liyan x Alys Thomas Katinka Hosszu Boglarka Kapas Suzuka Hasegawa Svetlana Chimrova Hali Flickinger x Regan Smith Any Other Athlete Men's 100m Freestyle Day 6 July 29th 2021 Kyle Chalmers x Any Athlete From Brazil Maxime Grousset Duncan Scott x Nandor Nemeth Alessandro Miressi David Popovici Kliment Kolesnikov x Andrei Minakov Zach Apple Caeleb Dressel Any Other Athlete Women's 4x200m Free. Relay Day 6 July 29th 2021 Australia x Brazil Canada China x France Germany Hong Kong Hungary Italy Japan New Zealand ROC South Africa South Korea Turkey United States x Women's 200m Breaststroke Day 7 July 30th 2021 Any Australian Athlete Sydney Pickrem Kelsey Wog Yu Jingyao Molly Renshaw Abbie Wood x Kanako Watanabe Evgenia Chikunova Maria Temnikova Tatjana Schoenmaker x Jessica Vall Lisa Mamie Lilly King Annie Lazor x Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Backstroke Day 7 July 30th 2021 Tristan Hollard Xu Jiayu Yohann Ndoye Brouard Christian Diener Luke Greenbank Adam Telegdy Ryosuke Irie x Keita Sunama Evgeny Rylov x Roman Mityukov Bryce Mefford Ryan Murphy x Any Other Athlete Women's 100m Freestyle Day 7 July 30th 2021 Cate Campbell Emma McKeon x Penny Oleksiak x Yang Junxuan Charlotte Bonnet Marie Wattel Freya Anderson Anna Hopkin Siobhan Haughey Femke Heemskerk Ranomi Kromowidjojo Sarah Sjostrom x Erika Brown Abbey Weitzeil Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Ind. Medley Day 7 July 30th 2021 Mitch Larkin Wang Shun Philip Heintz Joe Litchfield x Duncan Scott x Hubert Kos Alberto Razzetti Kosuke Hagino Daiya Seto Andrey Zhilkin Jeremy Desplanches Michael Andrew x Chase Kalisz Any Other Athlete Men's 100m Butterfly Day 8 July 31st 2021 Matthew Temple Josif Miladinov Mehdy Metella James Guy Kristof Milak x Takeshi Kawamoto Naoki Mizunuma Jakub Majerski Andrei Minakov x Mikhail Vekovishchev Noe Ponti Caeleb Dressel x Tom Shields Any Other Athlete Women's 200m Backstroke Day 8 July 31st 2021 Lena Grabowski Kaylee McKeown x Emily Seebohm Kylie Masse Liu Yaxin Peng Xuwei Kathleen Dawson Cassie Wild Katalin Burian Margherita Panziera x Phoebe Bacon Rhyan White x Any Other Athlete Women's 800m Freestyle Day 8 July 31st 2021 Kiah Melverton Ariarne Titimus x Summer McIntosh Li Bingjie Wang Jianjiahe Sarah Koehler Martina Caramignoli Simona Quadarella x Any Japanese Athlete Anna Egorova Anastasia Kirpichnikova Katie Grimes Katie Ledecky x Any Other Athlete Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay Day 8 July 31st 2021 Australia x Belarus Brazil Canada China Germany Great Britain x Greece Hungary Israel Italy Japan Netherlands Poland ROC United States x Men's 50m Freestyle Day 9 August 1st 2021 Cameron McEvoy Bruno Fratus Yu Hexin Ari-Pekka Likkonen Any French Athlete Ben Proud Kristian Gkolomeev Maxim Lobanovszkij Any Italian Athlete Thom De Boer x Pawel Juraszek Vlad Morozov x Michael Andrew Caeleb Dressel x Any Other Athlete Women's 50m Freestyle Day 9 August 1st 2021 Cate Campbell Emma McKeon Wu Qingfeng Zhang Yufei Pernille Blume x Melanie Henique Marie Wattel Femke Heemskerk Ranomi Kromowidjojo x Kasia Wasick Maria Kameneva Sarah Sjostrom Simone Manuel x Abbey Weitzeil Any Other Athlete Men's 1500m Freestyle Day 9 August 1st 2021 Jack McLoughlin Guilherme Costa Alexander Norgaard Any French Athlete Lukas Martens Florian Wellbrock x Daniel Jervis Gregorio Paltrinieri x Shogo Takeda Aleksandr Egorov Kirill Martynychev Bobby Finke Any Other Athlete x Women's 4x100m Med. Relay Day 9 August 1st 2021 Australia x Belarus Canada China x Denmark Germany Great Britain Hong Kong Italy Japan Netherlands ROC South Africa Spain Sweden United States x Men's 4x100m Med. Relay Day 9 August 1st 2021 Australia x Belarus Brazil Canada China France Germany Great Britain x Greece Hungary Italy Japan Lithuania Poland ROC United States x Women's 10km Open Water Day 10 August 4th 2021 Kareena Lee Ana Marcela Cunha Kate Sanderson Xin Xin Lara Grangeon Leonie Beck Finnia Wunram Anna Olasz x Rachele Bruni x Sharon Van Rouwendaal x Paula Ruiz Haley Anderson Ashley Twichell Any Other Athlete Men's 10km Open Water Day 11 August 5th 2021 Kai Graeme Edwards David Aubry Marc-Antoine Olivier x Rob Muffels Florian Wellbrock x Hector Pardoe Athanasios Kynigakis Kristof Rasovszky x Matan Roditi Gregorio Paltrinieri Mario Sanzullo Ferry Weertman Alberto Martinez Jordan Wilimovsky Any Other Athlete [/hide]

I think it's a little tricky to consider a medal as a safe one, especially a gold medal in sailing. It's just how the wind blows . For me the only safe gold medal is the women's hockey team. Like @heywoodusaid: we have to wait and see which superbikes the British will show up with, so not very sure of the gold medals for the men's team and Harry Lavreysen, but a medal should definitely work. Another more or less safe medal for Laura Smulders (BMX) and the W4- rowingteam (although I fear that Ireland will win the gold). I think for our Belgian neighbours and friends there are a lot more 'safe' gold medal picks: Evenpoel and Van Aert in the men's road race and time trial, Thiam in the heptathlon (athletics), Derwael at uneven bars (gymnastics) and the men's hockeyteam.

As far as I know, the World list is the same as the Olympic list. First 8 qualified judoka's on the list are seeded. 1-8, 5-4, 3-6 and 7-2. Does anyone know when the draw take place?

Dank voor je reply. Goed om te weten dat Discovery + dus alleen online is. Ik ga de komende dagen goed in de gaten houden of er wat bekend wordt, want die paar euro die het kost kunnen me gestolen worden. We hebben vijf jaar op de Zomerspelen moeten wachten, dus dat is een abonnementje zeker waard. Qua ritme moet ik even kijken wat handig is: mijn partner en hond zijn ook partij hier in huis . Ik denk dat ik het tekort aan slaap ga oplossen met wat hazenslaapjes tussendoor en een vast tijdblok op bed (21.00-02.00) en dan maar zien hoe lang dat vol te houden is. Ik kan me van Rio (hoewel dat qua tijd natuurlijk de andere kant op is) nog wel herinneren dat ik daar vrij relaxed doorheen kwam. De week na de Sluitingsceremonie was ik echter geen cent waard op mijn werk. Commentatoren ... tja ... voor sommige sporten is de Engelse of Belgische variant van de NOS echt beter. Zelf ben ik ook erg fan van de manier waarop de ARD en ZDF de OS verslaan. Dus regelmatig zal er een Duitse zender opstaan. Maar de NOS geef ik uiteindelijk toch ook vaak het voordeel van de twijfel, tenzij ik de stem van Arman Avsaroglu of Joris van den Berg hoor. Dan is de afstandsbediening snel gevonden. Overigens is de OS-site van de NOS vandaag live gegaan: nos.nl/tokyo2020 Hoe dan ook, @heywooduen @Jinzha, alvast fijne Spelen toegewenst!! Groet uit Oegstgeest!

1. Who were the most unexpected Qualifiers(Team/Individual) from your nation? Women's football and men's 3x3 2.Which athletes/teams ' not qualifying from your nation hurt you the most? Jemyma Betrian in Boxing; she was injured during the OQT in Londen 2020, she did not get the chance to qualify in 2021, while she was number 5 in the world. Unbelievably unfair. Also beachvolleyball-team Varenhorst/Van der Velde, because of an injury of Van der Velde during the OQT last week.

Ik dacht begrepen te hebben dat de NOS geen streams heeft (juist in verband met het feit dat ze slechts een sublicentie hebben), maar in https://over.nos.nl/app/uploads/2021/05/De-NOS-Sportzomer-persdossier.pdf lees ik dat de NOS wel streams heeft op de website nos.nl/os. In dat geval laat ik Discovery + maar zitten.

Goed idee! Ik ben iets minder bescheiden, maar alsnog bescheiden als we Gracenote moeten geloven: 30 medailles, 10 van iedere kleur.

Over 15 dagen beginnen we eindelijk met de Spelen. Even benieuwd of jullie ook dag en nacht gaan kijken, of kiezen jullie 's nachts voor slaap? Ik heb twee weken vrij genomen en dat leverde veel gefronste wenkbrauwen op. Maar boeiend, de Spelen zijn voor mij het hoogtepunt van het sportjaar. En ik ga zeker ook 's nachts kijken (zeg ik nu heel stoer, eerst maar eens kijken hoe lang ik dat volhoud). Andere vraag: NOS, Eurosport 1 en 2, Sporza, BBC en ARD/ZDF bieden genoeg opties om te kijken, maar hoe zit het nou met Discovery +. Is dat een extra zender op televisie, of is dat alleen een online zender waar je alle streams kunt zien? Ik kan die zender voor een maandje erbij nemen, maar mij is nog steeds onduidelijk wat ik daar precies voor krijg. Jullie een idee?

Well, my final prediction is 10 gold, 10 silver and 10 bronze. And really looking forward to the 400m hurdles: so excited if Bol is able to medal in that event.