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This is also probably the number one example of the Mandela effect in Dutch sports commentary history Timmertje meaning 'Little Timmer, like a nickname' --> Most people remember it was "Timmertje, Timmertje, wat doe je nou?", whereas it was actually "Timmertje, Timmertje, wat ga je doen?"

I still remember reading people on a forum starting to go all "wtf, did he miss his exchange?!" and at the same time watching the odds on Betfair move up from 1.1 or so to 1.4....1.6....2 and then to 1000 all of a sudden, all within a minute during his race. Ok, game over

That was a fun women's race indeed, although my favourites unfortunately didn't do great this time Anyhow, enjoyable fight for the podium places and a fantastic weekend for Emma Lunder!

I can imagine it's a massively remembered moment as it must have been huge at the time, but is it still looked at positively? No pun intended, but outside of Greece I think the name Kenteris basically goes together with the doping scandal I mean, every time I hear his name I have to go to Wikipedia to remind myself if he had won something before that 2004 drama and then realize he won gold in 2000

Then why did you pick Qatar?

But in Dutch the 'z' isn't usually embedded in a complex pattern of partially repeating 'similar letters' like 's' and 'c'

Czszeszczsny falls, sees the ball is still in dangerous position and decides to yell in pain to stop the play, successfully

Yeah, sports events is what I meant, otherwise you'll get to anthems that take half an hour with all verses I'm surprised at how very long some of the versions they play are.

Kounde is an amateur who doesn't know basic jewelry rules?

Parties in the Netherlands if Poland wins, so let's go Poland

Is there a list somewhere of the length of all the anthems in this World Cup? And I don't mean all kinds of official versions or something, I mean specifically the ones they play at this World Cup. Some just never seem to stop even when they've repeated like five times

Same here, although with some luck at least I'll be in the train back home and so able to watch (or listen)...

Also for this knockout match a lot of people are dressed as a stadium seat, it seems.

Oh wow, dream came true I haven't seen a single run yet, and was not really looking forward to going through the spoiler-ridden Olympic website's maze to try and find the right videos, but this will make it a whole lot easier

Talking about athletics finishes: Ellen van Langen's 800m gold in 1992, that should definitely be on the list as well in terms of iconic moments here Without any doubt also the 2021 silver for the men's 4x400m and Abdi Nageeye in the marathon, but that's a bit too 'fresh' for now to be mentioned here I think, although they will definitely remain in memory.

And I assume she liked it, judging by her best World Cup result in over three years I find it a bit of a weird distance, but on the other hand, it's a gazillion times better than having made the men's individual races 10k. That is just awful.

That was not the best race ever, but a fun last lap Too bad Hennig had an unfortunate moment and broke her pole, although luckily some Polish coach paid attention and got her a new one within seconds, to bridge the gap she had to the next German coach.

Hard to really make a ranking off the top of my head, but Epke Zonderland's high bar gold in 2012 is probably in it, for sure the 1996 men's volleyball gold is in the list and I'd assume Ard Schenk's successes in 1972 (?) as well among the older generation. The Inge de Bruijn/Pieter van den Hoogenband Olympics in 2004 as well, as a whole. Anky van Grunsven's gold as well, when dressage for some reason was still a bit of a thing to watch, and Jochem Uytdehaage's record breaking double gold in Salt Lake. Surely some rowing from the 80's or 90's as well, but I'd have no idea in which discipline they won gold other than the 'Holland Acht' in 1996 which is definitely in the list.

What more of a definition of 'world champion' would anyone want

Try walking around in that warm-up/pre-race zone in an IBU Cup, where everyone knows there's not really any cameras around....you better just look down at the snow

Like this is a very rare occassion Victoria Carl is happy nobody really picked it up like this last season

I was about to say I was of course kidding and hope you stay here, but 'cold and tasteless'....ouch

Excellent 28th place (tied with two others) for Baiba And Anna in 5th, wow

Dude, go back to Portugal

Oh man, Kuol could have made himself invincible for life