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Eindhoven Qualification Meet - morning session Women's 100m breaststroke Tes Schouten (1.05,71, NR) Women's 50m freestyle Kim Busch (24,68) Men's 50 freestyle Kenzo Simons (21,91)

Women's 200m medley Marrit Steenbergen (2.09,16) Women's 100m backstroke Maaike de Waard (59,65) Kira Toussaint (59,88) Women's 100m freestyle Marrit Steenbergen (53,10)

Women's 200m breaststroke Tes Schouten (2.22,21) Although she was already qualified for the OG, Schouten swam a really good time and Dutch record on day 2 of the Eindhoven Qualification Meet. Like yesterday, there was only one performance worth mentioning.

Women's 200m Freestyle Marrit Steenbergen (1.56,22) Further only disappointing results on day 1 of the Eindhoven Qualification Meet.

Indeed, such a group sounds nice, but the Dutch men's team is not that much, especially if Nimir has a less good day. At last year's World Champs they impressed against Argentina and Iran, before losing in the first knock out round to Ukrain without a chance.

Well, I think it is the worst possible draw: against the world champion and against China: there's no chance at all. We only would have a chance if we could play in Japan or in Poland. For me the favourites: China/Serbia - Brazil/Japan - Poland/Italy.

PREDICTION DESIGN - START COPYING HERE ---> [hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Women's 1500m Day 1 March 11th 2023 Hanne Desmet x Claudia Gagnon Courtney Sarault x Renee Marie Steenge Any Chinese Athlete Anna Seidel Arianna Sighel Olga Tikhonova Selma Poutsma Suzanne Schulting Xandra Velzeboer Choi Minjeong x Kim Gilli Shim Suk Hee Kristen Santos-Griswold Any Other Athlete Men's 1500m Day 1 March 11th 2023 Brendan Corey Stijn Desmet x Pascal Dion Any Other Canadian Athlete Any Chinese Athlete Pietro Sighel Nurtilek Kazhgali Reinis Berzins Friso Emons Sjinkie Knegt Jens van 't Wout Hong Kyung Hwan Park Ji Won x Any Other Korean Athlete x Any Other Athlete Women's 500m Day 1 March 11th 2023 Kim Boutin x Rikki Doak Petra Jaszapati Selma Poutsma Suzanne Schulting x Xandra Velzeboer x Natalia Maliszewska Nikola Mazur Choi Minjeong Seo Whimin Any Other Korean Athlete Kristen Santos-Griswold Corinne Stoddard Any Other Athlete Men's 500m Day 1 March 11th 2023 Stijn Desmet Steven Dubois x Maxime Laoun Any Other Canadian Athlete Lin Xiaojun Zhong Yuchen Pietro Sighel x Any Japanese Athlete Abzal Azhgaliyev Denis Nikisha x Jens van 't Wout Any Other Dutch Athlete Diane Sellier Lim Yong Jin Any Other Korean Athlete Any Other Athlete Women's 1000m Day 2 March 12th 2023 Hanne Desmet x Kim Boutin x Courtney Sarault Zhang Chutong Anna Seidel Selma Poutsma Suzanne Schulting Xandra Velzeboer Kim Gilli Shim Suk Hee Any Other Korean Athlete Kristen Santos-Griswold x Corinne Stoddard Any Other Athlete Men's 1000m Day 2 March 12th 2023 Pascal Dion x Steven Dubois Any Other Canadian Athlete Any Chinese Athlete Quentin Fercoq Adil Galiakhmetov Roberts Kruzbergs Jens van 't Wout Any Other Dutch Athlete Hong Kyung Hwan Park Ji Won x Any Other Korean Athlete Furkan Akar Any Other Athlete x Mixed 2000m Relay Day 2 March 12th 2023 Canada China Hungary Italy Netherlands x Poland South Korea x Any Other Nation x Women's 3000m Relay Day 2 March 12th 2023 Canada x China Hungary Italy Netherlands x Poland South Korea x Any Other Nation Men's 5000m Relay Day 2 March 12th 2023 Canada x China Hungary Italy x Japan Kazakhstan Netherlands South Korea x Any Other Nation [/hide]

Skin of ankles must be covered for safety. During the race, the covering of Beune's ankle shifted, resulting in disqualification. Bizarre rule and sorry for the team. This was the first decent team pursuit of the Netherlands in ages. And sorry for Beune, who normally finishes fourth in most of the competitions she skates.

The Dutch ladies Beune, Schouten and Groenewoud skated by far the fastest time, but were disqualified because a small piece of skin from Beune's ankle was visible during the race. That seems to be forbidden.

Finally, I also got access to ticket sales since yesterday. Unfortunately, there are no more affordable tickets for sale for my favorite sports, so I have decided to fully focus on the second round. And on team sports as soon as the draw and match schedule are known. Pretty bummed, I expected more from it

HERE ---> [hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Women's 3000m Day 1 March 2nd 2023 Ivanie Blondin Valerie Maltais Isabelle Weidemann Any Chinese Athlete Martina Sablikova x Ayano Sato Nadezhda Morozova Joy Beune x Antoinette Rijpma-De Jong Irene Schouten Ragne Wiklund x Magdalena Czyszczon Any Other Athlete Men's 5000m Day 1 March 2nd 2023 Bart Swings Graeme Fish Davide Ghiotto x Andrea Giovannini Ryosuke Tsuchiya Any Japanese Athlete Sander Eitrem x Sigurd Henriksen Any Other Norwgian Athlete Jorrit Bergsma Marcel Bosker Patrick Roest x Any American Athlete Any Other Athlete Women's Team Sprint Day 1 March 2nd 2023 Canada x China Germany Japan Kazakhstan Netherlands x Poland United States x Any Other Nation Men's Team Sprint Day 1 March 2nd 2023 Canada x China Germany Kazakhstan Netherlands x Norway Poland x United States Any Other Nation Women's Team Pursuit Day 2 March 3rd 2023 Canada x China Germany Japan Netherlands x Poland Switzerland United States x Any Other Nation Men's Team Pursuit Day 2 March 3rd 2023 Canada x Denmark Italy Japan Netherlands x Norway x South Korea United States Any Other Nation Men's 500m Day 2 March 3rd 2023 Laurent Dubreuil x Christopher Fiola David Bosa Takuya Morimoto x Wataru Morishige Yuma Murakami Dal Dal N'tab Hein Otterspeer Merijin Scheperkamp Any Polish Athlete Jun-ho Kim Jordan Stolz x Any Other Athlete Women's 500m Day 2 March 3rd 2023 Vanessa Herzog x Any Canadian Athlete Any Chinese Athlete Kurumi Inagawa Konami Soga Miho Takagi Yekaterina Aydova Michelle de Jong Femke Kok Jutta Leerdam Min-sun Kim x Kimi Goetz Erin Jackson x Any Other Athlete Men's 1000m Day 3 March 4th 2023 Laurent Dubreuil Antoine Gelinas-Beaulieu Zhongyan Ning Marten Liiv David Bosa Ryota Kojima Kazuya Yamada Masaya Yamada Thomas Krol Kjeld Nuis x Hein Otterspeer x Haavard Holmefjord Lorentzen Damian Zurek Jordan Stolz x Any Other Athlete Women's 1000m Day 3 March 4th 2023 Vanessa Herzog Ivanie Blondin Qishi Li Ellia Smeding Miho Takagi x Yekaterina Aydova Michelle de Jong Jutta Leerdam x Antoinette Rijpma-De Jong Karolina Bosiek Min-sun Kim Brittany Bowe Kimi Goetz x Erin Jackson Any Other Athlete Men's Mass Start Day 3 March 4th 2023 Gabriel Odor Bart Swings x Connor Howe Hayden Mayeur Any Danish Athlete Felix Maly Felix Rijhnen Andrea Giovannini Peter Michael Jorrit Bergsma Harm Visser Jae Won Chung x Seung-hoon Lee Livio Wenger Ethan Cepuran Any Other Athlete x Women's Mass Start Day 3 March 4th 2023 Sandrine Tas Ivanie Blondin x Valerie Maltais Binyu Yang Michelle Uhrig Laura Peveri x Momoka Horkawa Sumire Kikuchi Marijke Groenewoud Irene Schouten x Any Polish Athlete Ji-woo Park Any Swiss Athlete Mia Kilburg Any Other Athlete Men's 1500m Day 4 March 5th 2023 Bart Swings Connor Howe Tyson Langelaar Zhongyan Ning Taiyo Nonomura Kazuya Yamada Masaya Yamada Thomas Krol Kjeld Nuis x Patrick Roest Allan Dahl Johansson Sander Eitrem x Any Other Norwegian Athlete Jordan Stolz x Any Other Athlete Women's 1500m Day 4 March 5th 2023 Ivanie Blondin Beatrice Lamarche Mei Han Qishi Li Ayano Sato Miho Takagi Yekaterina Aydova Nadezhda Morozova Marijke Groenewoud x Jutta Leerdam Antoinette Rijpma-De Jong x Ragne Wiklund x Brittany Bowe Kimi Goetz Any Other Nation Men's 10000m Day 4 March 5th 2023 Bart Swings Ted-Jan Bloemen Graeme Fish Davide Ghiotto x Seitaro Ichinohe Ryosuke Tsuchiya Jorrit Bergsma Patrick Roest Sander Eitrem x Sigurd Henriksen x Casey Dawson Any Other Athlete Women's 5000m Day 4 March 5th 2023 Ivanie Blondin Isabelle Weidemann Martina Sablikova x Ayano Sato Miho Takagi Nadezhda Morozova Ragne Wiklund Marijke Groenewoud Sanne in 't Hof x Irene Schouten Ragne Wiklund x Magdalena Czyszczon Any Other Athlete [/hide]

No you're not. Still waiting to get a timeslot in the draw. Hopefully there are some nice ticket left; I really want to see handball, hockey and beachvolleyball. And if I don't get tickets, I have to prepare for Milano 2026. However, the speedskating competition may be held somewhere else in Europe ...

Very nice that you have the tickets you wanted, @Jinzha. At least one of Totallympics qualified for the Games! And thanks for the extra info. You will go for more tickets in the second round?

I see a lot of messages on twitter from people who have a time slot. So I'm starting to worry that there won't be anything left, if I get a time slot at all.

Oh wow, congrats @Jinzha. Which period you want to visit the Games? And which events? I want to go from 31 July till 5 August, and definitely want to see hockey, horse jumping, beach volleyball and handball.

It's way too stressfull for me. But we must keep hope, @Adriano @JinzhaIs your F5-key already stressed? ;-)

There are already so many beautiful tickets for sale in the first phase. Good luck with your search. Wish I could start buying too .

Hell yeah, I dreamed last night that I was among the first lucky ones, but no good news so far. I keep hoping for all the Totallympics fans. Good luck!

What a surprise Germany won this WCh. But in the end ... well deserved. Netherlands played a good tournament as well. I'm looking forward to the ECh and the OG with our young and talented team.

You are only allowed to buy 30 tickets, so you'll have max 5 packs (3 events each), assumed that you will travel with your sister. I wanna go from 31 July till 5 August. Hopefully I can visit some hockey matches, but I have to guess in which matches Netherlands is playing.

I'm afraid there's only a little chance to be lucky in the draw. I am praying 24 hours a day ...

Normally Worldofvolley is well informed, but the FIVB has not confirmed the pool composition, so I think you are right.

According to Worldofvolley.com this is the pool composition for the OG-qualification for women's volleyball. The 'draw' was held on December 19th. I have completely missed reports about these pools. Pool A (Japan host): Serbia, Japan, Turkey, Germany, Canada, Colombia, Mexico, Peru. Pool B: Italy, China, Dominican Republic, Netherlands, Thailand, Czech Republic, Argentina, Slovenia. Pool C: Brazil, United States, Poland, Belgium, Bulgaria, Puerto Rico, South Korea, Ukraine

According to Worldofvolley.com this is the pool composition for the OG-qualification for women's volleyball. The 'draw' was held on December 19th. I have completely missed reports about these pools. Pool A (Japan host): Serbia, Japan, Turkey, Germany, Canada, Colombia, Mexico, Peru. Pool B: Italy, China, Dominican Republic, Netherlands, Thailand, Czech Republic, Argentina, Slovenia. Pool C: Brazil, United States, Poland, Belgium, Bulgaria, Puerto Rico, South Korea, Ukraine

Bad result for us against Germany, but not unexpected. We played a good tournament and will probably finish at the 11th place. So no OQT for us :-(