Are you hitting the road? Here you will find it overview of the work. Check here the rail timetable.
What can you expect today?
- For the first time, there are medal opportunities for the Dutch at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. For example, archers Gabriela Schloesser and Steve Wijler compete for a podium place in the mixed team tournament. And the road race for the cyclists is underway, with Dylan van Baarle, Tom Dumoulin, Wilco Kelderman, Bauke Mollema and Yoeri Havik at the start. The finish is around 10:30 am.
- Today also the first softball games are scheduled, it is one of the five new sports these Games. In the podcast Long Story Short NOS explains on 3 how a sport becomes Olympic.
- The political party Bij1 is holding a general meeting of members, which will be overshadowed by an internal crisis. Number 2 on the list, Quinsy Gario, has been suspended. It is unclear why he is in danger of being expelled from the party, but there would be “victims”. Prominent members demand further explanation.
- The annual Pride parade takes place in Budapest. Given the recent controversial anti-LGBTI law in Hungary, there are fears of extra tensions surrounding the parade. In previous editions there were also clashes with counter-protesters.
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What did you miss?
Did Epke Zonderland do his last exercise? The horizontal bar specialist put in the qualifications a score of 13,833 down, not good enough for a place in the Olympic final, he expects.
“You definitely have to have a 14-plus for the final, so that is painful,” said Zonderland. “But what do you expect if you haven’t been able to train? In the training I couldn’t do anything that comes close to an exercise, it’s actually not normal that I did an exercise with this difficulty.”
without land, who assumes himself that the Olympics are his last tournament, his health was ailing in the run-up to Tokyo. That was at the expense of his strength and energy. He didn’t make any major mistakes, but his practice was a bit too sloppy for a high score.
How did the other Dutch Olympians perform last night? read here a summary back.
“I just lose a lot in the second half because of the energy”:
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