Paris at this time: an on the spot likelihood to win Dutch medals on day one

We begin each Olympic day with this system of the day. When will the Dutch act? What else goes to occur? Observe every part in our dwell weblog and by way of dwell stream. Right now is day 1. Click on right here for the total program.

The primary day of the Olympic Video games in Paris can present a number of Dutch medals directly. The Dutch staff has irons within the hearth in biking, swimming and judo.

The largest likelihood of Dutch success will likely be in street biking. The ladies’s time trial is at 2:30 p.m., with Ellen van Dijk and Demi Vollering as contenders. The race towards the clock is 32.4 kilometers via Paris and is nearly flat. Van Dijk particularly applies regardless of a a damaged ankle as they like. She turned the world champion on this occasion in 2013, 2021 and 2022.

The lads will cowl the identical route from 4:30pm, with Daan Hoole as the one Dutch rider. It’s not one of many earlier rivals.

In judo, Tornike Tsjakadoea goes for a medal within the class as much as 60 kilograms. On the earlier Video games he misplaced the bronze medal match. The judokas will step on the mat from 10 am and within the Tsjakadoea part the finals will likely be held from 4 pm.

The swimming competitors additionally begins instantly at this time. There will likely be rows from 11 am and the primary and final block begins at 8:30 pm. Marrit Steenbergen, Kim Busch, Sam van Nunen and Tessa Giele make up the ladies’s 4×100 meter freestyle relay staff. The ultimate of that half is at 9:37 pm.

There are not any medals to be received in rowing, which additionally begins instantly. From 9:00 am there are solely strains navigated by totally different Dutch folks.

As well as, the lads’s hockey (12.45pm) and girls’s hockey (8.15pm) will full their first group sport at this time, as will the water polo gamers (2pm). The three groups are competing for a medal in Paris, the hockey girls is not going to even be glad with lower than gold.

Dutch badminton gamers, tennis gamers, occasion riders, canoeists, gymnasts and desk tennis participant Britt Eerland are additionally concerned.

The primary medals of the Video games will likely be distributed in capturing and diving. The shooters will end the ten meter air rifle part for combined groups round 11.50am and the diver will end the three meter plan round 12 midday. Dutch folks don’t take part in these elements.