The parallel with three-time Olympic champion Irene Schouten has been drawn many occasions. And never with out motive, as a result of by way of skating and inline skating DNA, Schilder appears to be a carbon copy of Schouten, who has since retired.
“Irene was the final Dutch European junior champion within the elimination race in 2009, till I received it final week. I feel it is good that persons are evaluating me to Irene. I see it as a praise. I hope to be pretty much as good as Irene. With a very good angle and if I proceed to benefit from the sport sufficient, it would simply work out.”
Earlier than the skating season begins, the World Curler Skating Championships in Pescara, Italy, await in September. “Members from Colombia, Ecuador and Argentina are additionally participating. They’re extremely robust. There are sometimes rumours that they use doping. That might properly be the case, as a result of there are few or no checks on the youth. I used to be not checked throughout the European Championships both. That isn’t mandatory, as a result of I eat a pancake within the morning after which it’s: go together with that banana!”
