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Bruggts also wins cup with FC Barcelona after title
9.29 pm: Esmee Brugts has won the Spanish cup with FC Barcelona for the second year in a row. The Oranje-International was the entire final against Atlético Madrid (2-0) within the lines. Clàudia Pina scored both goals.
Barcelona became the Dutch champion for the sixth time in a row last month. Arsenal was too strong in the Champions League final (1-0).
Brugts came into action for the Orange on Tuesday and had to go back to her club differently than the other internationals. As a result, she can report to Zeist four days later than the rest for the European Championship preparation, on 23 June. The European Championship will be in Switzerland next month.
Van Dam helps hockey players with two hits along India
6.28 pm: The hockey players of Orange have booked a difficult home victory on India in the Pro League. Thijs van Dam helped the Olympic champion in Amstelveen with two hits to the third regular victory in this Pro League campaign. The winning goal fell three minutes before time.
India took the lead early in the second quarter through a utilized penalty corner from HarmanPreet Singh. Seven minutes later Van Dam was right. India called in the help of the video referee to use the convex side of the stick, but after viewing the images the goal remained. Great opportunities then did not go out, until the 2-1 from Van Dam.
In the preparation for the European Championships of August, the hockey players will play five Pro League matches in the Wagener Stadium in Amstelveen next week. On Monday India is the opponent again. Orange won for the third time in nine duels. There were also four victories after shoot-outs.
Marc Márquez wins seventh sprinting of MotoGP season
4.26 pm: Motorcycle racer Marc Márquez has continued his good shape in sprint traces in the Grand Prix of Aragón. The leader of the World Cup classification won his seventh sprinting of the season for his own audience, in which eight has been held so far. His brother Onlex, the winner of the previous Sprintrace, became second. Fermín Aldeguer completed a completely Spanish stage.
Marc Márquez (Ducati), who started first, was not good and fell back to fourth place. But with his higher speed, Márquez soon drove back to the lead position, so as not to give it up.
Marc Márquez has 27 points ahead of his brother Onlex in the World Cup stand. Marc also won the first starting place for Sunday’s main race on Saturday.
British cyclist Ferguson surprised in Tour of Great Britain
4:14 pm: The British cyclist Cat Ferguson has surprisingly won the third stage of the Tour of Great Britain. It was the most difficult ride, with start and finish in Kelso, Scottish. Movistar’s 19-year-old rider not only won her first game in the WorldTour, but also conquered the leader’s jersey.
Ferguson won the sprint of a leading group of five in the pouring rain, for her fellow countryman Josie Nelson from Picnic PostNL and the New Zealand Ally Wollaston. The Dutch Karlijn Swinkels was fourth.
Ferguson took over the leader’s jersey from the American Olympic champion Kristen Faulkner.
The Tour of Britain ends on Sunday with a ride on a course through Glasgow.
Hockey players continue Pro League with ample victory over Australia
15.13 hours: Both teams will meet again on Sunday. This is followed by duels with Spain and China. The Dutch hockey players have won their first of six games in the Wagener stadium for the Pro League. The team of national coach Raoul Ehren was 8-1 much too strong for Australia in Amstelveen. Top scorer was Yibbi Jansen with three hits.
The Netherlands had started the continuation of the Pro League as a leader in the ranking after eight duels. They were finished in Argentina and India.
Both teams will meet again on Sunday. This is followed by duels with Spain and China.
The Netherlands already led 2-0 within a few minutes. First Jansen hit her backhand, then Pien Sanders slid into the ball from a cross from Felice Albers. Australia, which had a series of five defeats, got a little more grasp of the Dutch game in the second quarter. The Orange did got a number of penalty corners, but goalkeeper Aleisha Power kept this quarter the zero.
Immediately after the break the 2-1 followed. Mariah Williams surprised goalkeeper Anne Veenendaal with a shot in the short corner. Shortly before the end of the third quarter, the Netherlands increased the margin. First Jansen scored from a penalty corner. Just before the buzzer, Marijn Veen made it 4-1.
Also in the last quarter Oranje immediately scored, Joosje Burg did it in the rebound. Not much later the third goal by Jansen followed, now from a penalty corner. It was her 52nd goal in the Pro League, with which she about the six seasons that the Pro League exists is the most productive player. Goals from Frédérique Matla and Luna Fokke gave Australia a shameful defeat. It meant the biggest victory in the Netherlands ever in Australia.
Demi Volling takes leadership in Catalonia after winning in Bergrit
2.33 pm: Demi Volling has seized power in the Tour of Catalonia. The leader of FDJ-Suez had already finished second behind her Swiss teammate Elise Chabbey on Friday in the first stage, but once again showed who the best cyclist is rising in the second ride.
Only the 20 -year -old Française Marion Bunel of Visma – Lease A Bike stayed on the final climb of 10 kilometers in her track. Only in the last 600 meters, after an acceleration of fullization, Bunel had to give himself won and settle for second place half a minute after the stage winner. Two minutes behind Volling, the Dutch Femke de Vries (Visma) won the sprint for third place of Chabbey.
Fulling had already had a spicy day when she started her attack. “We had a few climbs early on and it was very hot. In the climb I only got Bunel. It was tough, because we had wind against it. Fortunately she also did her job. It was hard to get rid of her,” she said in the flash interview.
The Tour of Catalonia ends on Sunday with a ride from Castell deflection to Barcelona. The Catalan stage race was won last year by Marianne Vos. It is not there this year.
Wheelchair tennis star Aniek van Koot loses the final on Roland Garros
12.50 pm: Wheelchair tennis star Aniek van Koot did not succeed in completing her ‘Career Grand Slam’ with the title on Roland Garros. The 35-year-old Van Koot lost the final in Paris to the Japanese Yui Kamiji: 6-2 6-2.
Last summer, Kamiji also won paralympic gold on the jobs of Roland Garros by beating Diede de Groot in the final. De Groot, the title defender on Roland Garros, made her return to this grand slam tournament after a hip surgery, but was eliminated in her first game.
Van Koot previously reached the final in Paris in 2012, 2014 and 2015, but was unable to win. She did win the Australian Open (2013), Wimbledon (2019) and the US Open (2013).
Niels Vink lost the final at the quads. The Israeli Guy Sasson was too strong for the Helmonder, who won the Olympic title in Paris last summer. The set positions were 6-4 and 7-5.
Marc Márquez fastest in qualifying GP from Aragón
11.49 am: Motorcycle racer Marc Márquez has conquered pole position in the MotoGP for the fifth time this season. The Spanish Ducati driver beat up his younger brother Onlex Márquez and the Italian Franco Morbidelli in the qualification for the Grand Prix of Aragón.
Márquez starts later on Saturday from the first position in the Sprintrace. Sunday is the Grand Prix of Aragón.
Collin Veijer is missing in the qualification of the Moto2 later on Saturday. The 20-year-old Staphorster has not yet recovered from the wrist injury he sustained last month, so he already missed the Grand Prix of Great Britain.
Volleyball players lose from Dominican Republic after five -setter
08.42 hours: The Dutch volleyball players have not been able to continue their victory in the Nations League. The Dominican Republic was too strong in five sets for the team of national coach Felix Koslowski: 22-25 25-19 28-26 22-25 15-13.
The rejuvenated Dutch team had lost the first match in Ottawa 3-0 on Wednesday, which is in seventh place on the world ranking, one place above Orange. The Netherlands beat Canada a day later, the number 9 in the world. But against the eleventh-arranged team from Central America, the team lost the next two sets after winning the first set. With the win of the fourth set, they forced a fifth set in which the opponent was narrowly better.
Eighteen countries are participating in the Nations League, each playing twelve games. Apeldoorn is one of the three playing locations. The Netherlands plays four games there from 9 to 13 July. In Ottawa there is another game with Bulgaria.