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- 7-0 Netherlands, GB, Italy and Czech Republic or France in the mainround.

Normally Dutch NOC has additional standards for all sports. There's another "problem": imagine that Toussaint (backstroke) is injured, Netherlands really no has another backstroke swimmer (male or female) at world level. That could still be a reason for Dutch NOC to withdraw the team. Dutch NOC is quite strict!

doesn't play their best game today against , "only" 3-0 after 3rd. GB really looks strong, will be a dangerous opponent for Italy and Netherlands

But you never know with the Dutch NOC ... sometimes they throw away quotas for no reason.

Unfortunately Dutch media won't give this Olympic qualifier any attention. Maybe I take a live look in Utrecht at Saturday.

The Dutch women lead 9:0 against South Africa, 2nd inning hasn't finished yet. Looks like The Netherlands, Italy and GB will fight for the Olympic ticket.

There's no clear reason for it, but I always like the Scandinavian teams and athletes (maybe because of my dog has Danish roots ... a Great Dane). I definitely not cheer for , despite Belgium is our neighbour.

Well done Duncan Scott!!!!!! Sun is the most disgusting swimmer of all time.

What a bad performance of the Dutch swimmers; the 4x100 relay men didn't qualify (only 16th) and once Ranomi Kromowidjojo was a swimmer of the outside category (three time Olympic champion), now she swims 54,31 in relay. We expected and hoped a bit more, especially after the disappointing results of our open water swimmers.

Problem of Zonderland and Van Vleuten: they will compete in the first weekend, so won't be allowed to participate in the Opening Ceremony. Henk Grol is a good choice too!!

Epke Zonderland (gymnastics, very likeable and pleasant Olympic champion, spectacular gymnast) Annemiek van Vleuten (road cycling, she almost died during last Olympic road race when she was on her way to gold, but crashed) Lobke Berkhout (sailing, she retired in 2012, but decided to come back and qualified surprisingly for the Olympics, won already silver and bronze medals)

wins 14:4 against ... although Greece may be not thát good anymore, a very impressive win for the Spanish team

Wow, after all shoulder problems Sharon van Rouwendaal gets an Olympic place, so she can defend her Olympic title from Rio 2016. Last year in European Championships she was superwoman with 3 golds, this time she expected nothing due to her shoulder. Unfortunately Dutch Esmee Vermeulen didn't qualify, but neither did Muller and Bridi . Quite shocking in my opinion!

Well, volleyball (w) would already be a surprise when they qualify for the Olympics. Italy and Turkey are way better at the moment, so personally I don't think it's gonna happen, but hopefully I'm wrong.

Which "help by the refs against Sweden" are you referring to? Well, at least the Dutch qualified for the Olympics!! Well done!!

Netherlands. I think (and hope) something like this ... Archery: 1 medal (men’s team) Athletics: 1 medal (5000 m women) Badminton: - Basketball: - Boxing: - Canoeing slalom: - Canoeing sprint: - Cycling road: 2 medals (women's road race, women's timetrial) Cycling track: 3 medals (men’s team sprint, men's sprint, women’s omnium) BMX: 2 medals Mountainbike: 1 medal (men) Diving: - Equestrian: 1 medal (team jumping) Fencing: - Field hockey: 1 medal (women's team) Football: - Golf: - Rhythmic gymnastics: - Trampoline: - Artistic gymnastics: 1 medal (high bar) Handball: - Judo: 2 medals (-78 women, +100 men) Modern pentathlon: - Rowing: 4 medals (W4-, W4x, LW2-, M4x) Rugby: - Sailing: 3 medals (RSX men, RSX women, Laser Radial women) Shooting: - Swimming: 1 medal (open water men) Synchronized swimming: - Table tennis: - Taekwondo: - Tennis: - Triathlon: - Volleyball: - Beach volleyball: - Water polo: 1 medal (women's team) Weightlifting: - Wrestling: - Suprise medal: 1 Total: 25 medals

Football W 100% Hockey W 95% Hockey M 95% Waterpolo W 80% Baseball M 60% Handball W 50% (too many good players quit) Volleyball W 40% Softball W 40% Basket 3x3 M 20% Basket 3x3 W 20% Waterpolo M 10% Volleyball M 5%

Well deserved win for Netherlands. Never expect a Dutch women's footballteam qualfying for the Olympics! WOW Okay, a little lucky, but on the other hand: has won all 5 matches!

That's a big surprise, but hey ... with a very weak team in their poule, the other three teams will finish in the top 3 and will advance to the next round.

Already a lot of quota for Spain. Felicidades :-) Netherlands only has a few quota in sailing and archery, that's it. But, more to come!

Yeah!! Well deserved for Gaby Bayardo. And nice that Netherlands can compete in the mixed event in Tokio now!

No, Netherlands play against Japan and will definitely lose that match. The semifinalists - in my opinion - will be England, France, Japan and Germany.

Same in Europe for Russia (women). They still have their World Cup points from 2015, therefore they have a very easy group to qualify for the Olympics. Other European countries like Germany, Belgium, Netherlands are way better at this moment, but won't qualify for the Olympics. After this Olympic cycle, Russia still will be in the top 8 or something, just because they will earn at least points from the Olympic games.

Bleh ... France wins the shoot-off. Silver medal for

4-4 in the men's recurve teamfinal... come on boys!!