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And no Phijffers, by far our fastest male 400 metres runner this season.

So does Lieke Klaver.
No Klaver and no Bol, this will become the worst mixed relay in recent history for us.

That doesnt contradict what I posted.
 
The vacancy will be created if ALL of the 2026 Wrld Cup teams are.qualified. For now, Spain in the best placed non qualifier for that events and qualifies for the OQS

Sorry, didn't know that. Thanks for the information!

"2. Netherlands will be off from previous speed skating highs"
 
For sure, only in some women's events we can win gold medals, but I'm afraid won't even make the top 8 this time. But I like to be surprised by the short trackers, so who knows, maybe it will still work out well.

Lol what a nonsense argument to make. That's never what I claimed, and in the alltime medal standings Italy is even lower than the Netherlands so if you're trying to argue Italy is a powerhouse, then that's an invalid argument to make.
 
Besides, what else would you expect The Netherlands to do? There is no snow and there are no mountains which structurally eliminates 70% of medal options with a very rare exception every few games, and there's simply no figure skating or ice hockey culture over here which eliminates another 10% of options. We're simply maximising all our medal possibilities, resulting in consistent performances the last few Olympic cycles. 
 

The Netherlands is just lucky. I hope there's nothing more to it. Norway and the Netherlands have such an advantage in some sports that I'd like to take a closer look at them – after all, there was already a controversy over Bjoergen's asthma medication.

That's actually a good way to remind me why nobody should be obsessed with the medal table.

What a race, what an Olympics, 5 gold medals, damn  
 
Itzhak de Laat is Olympic champion, I'm gonna read that sentence 52 more times to make sure it's true  

Happy Antoinette Rijpma-de Jong finally has her gold.
 
Also extremely happy with Maltais’ bronze. It is a nice surprise. Keeps my streak of seeing Canadian medals at every event I’ve attended intact for now (women’s 3000m relay in short track, men’s 500m in short track, women’s ice hockey finals) with two more to go in Milan.
 
As a side note, now that I’ve attended the Olympics I can’t believe we ever did victory plaza. Having the medals presented right after the event is so special. 

Oh no, how unfortunate for Italy

Individual sweep for still on, 4th gold for Netherlands 

Man, dutch kids are really into skating 
 
Listen to me finally and Try hockey you weirdos ! you´ll see you´ll be good

Sighel did it again 

I'm very relieved because the 3000m relay final should be (if everything goes well) the first Olympic final I ever watch in person.

I was in the shorttrack-arena in Milan last Thursday. Still unbelievable what happened there. Two gold medals for  in just 15 minutes time. I expected Velzeboer, but Van 't Wout: wow!
 
I will never forget this historical evening for Dutch shorttrack.
Now back home and watching tonight's shorttrack from the couch.

I was in the shorttrack-arena in Milan last Thursday. Still unbelievable what happened there. Two gold medals for  in just 15 minutes time. I expected Velzeboer, but Van 't Wout: wow!
 
I will never forget this historical evening for Dutch shorttrack.
Now back home and watching tonight's shorttrack from the couch.

I was in the shorttrack-arena in Milan last Thursday. Still unbelievable what happened there. Two gold medals for  in just 15 minutes time. I expected Velzeboer, but Van 't Wout: wow!
 
I will never forget this historical evening for Dutch shorttrack.
Now back home and watching tonight's shorttrack from the couch.

I was in the shorttrack-arena in Milan last Thursday. Still unbelievable what happened there. Two gold medals for  in just 15 minutes time. I expected Velzeboer, but Van 't Wout: wow!
 
I will never forget this historical evening for Dutch shorttrack.
Now back home and watching tonight's shorttrack from the couch.

First gold, medal, and double podium for  in speed skating, took you guys long enough  

Congrats  and  !

This should be the first medal for those weird dutch, who loves skating without pucks and loves playing hockey with a ball 

I was in the shorttrack-arena in Milan last Thursday. Still unbelievable what happened there. Two gold medals for  in just 15 minutes time. I expected Velzeboer, but Van 't Wout: wow!
 
I will never forget this historical evening for Dutch shorttrack.
Now back home and watching tonight's shorttrack from the couch.

miracle on ice, part II
I'm crying...
what an amazing present for her 35th birthday (which is today)

I was in the shorttrack-arena in Milan last Thursday. Still unbelievable what happened there. Two gold medals for  in just 15 minutes time. I expected Velzeboer, but Van 't Wout: wow!
 
I will never forget this historical evening for Dutch shorttrack.
Now back home and watching tonight's shorttrack from the couch.

I was in the shorttrack-arena in Milan last Thursday. Still unbelievable what happened there. Two gold medals for  in just 15 minutes time. I expected Velzeboer, but Van 't Wout: wow!
 
I will never forget this historical evening for Dutch shorttrack.
Now back home and watching tonight's shorttrack from the couch.