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Groenewoud two years longer at Team Zaanlander
13:34: Speed skater Marijke Groenewoud remains loyal to Team Zaanlander. The 23-year-old Friezin was in the interest of Jumbo-Visma and Reggeborgh, but decided to extend her contract with the team of coach Jillert Anema by two years. Groenewoud became world champion in the mass start in Thialf last year and took bronze in the team pursuit at the Beijing Winter Games in February.
De Friezin was reserve for the Orange squad in the quarter-finals and semi-finals, but national coach Jan Coopmans let her drive instead of Antoinette de Jong in the battle for bronze. Together with the Olympic champions Irene Schouten and Ireen Wüst, Groenewoud was much too strong for Russia in the ‘consolation final’.
Due to a fall, she was unable to compete for the medals on the mass start. Schouten, Groenewoud’s teammate at Zaanlander, took her third gold medal in China in this section.
Groenewoud also participated in the 1500 meters at the Games and finished fifth.
Gymnast Visser keeps silver from World Cup in Baku
1.17 pm: Gymnast Naomi Visser was unable to add a medal to the silver in Saturday’s bridge section on the final day of the World Cup competition in Baku. Visser had also qualified for the finals on floor and beam, but was stuck in eighth and sixth place respectively.
Visser came to the bridge on Saturday to a score of 13.100. Only the French Lorette Charpy did better: 13,866. Vera van Pol also retained a medal from that final. She kept the German Sarah Voss (12.933) just off the bronze with a score of 12.966.
Visser finished on the floor at 11.433 in the final. The gold was for the Brazilian Julia Soares: 13.433. She was sixth on the beam with 11.933, on which Voss was the best: 13.733.
Loran de Munck was eighth and last in the final on Saturday with a score of 13.766.
Visser finished fifth in the all-round final at the World Cup last fall.
Curlingmen start World Cup with two defeats
12:57 pm: The Dutch curling men started the World Cup in Las Vegas with two defeats. Sweden was too strong for skip Wouter Gösgens’ team 7-4 in the first game, then Germany won 13-7. Orange is thirteenth and last in the ranking.
The curlers are participating in the World Cup for the fifth time. In the previous four editions, with Jaap van Dorp as skip, the Dutch men finished eleventh (in 2017), tenth (in 2018 and 2019) and twelfth (in 2021). Van Dorp is now the vice-skip. Carlo Glasbergen and Laurens Hoekman also play along. Tobias van den Hurk is reserve.
The Dutch team was relegated to the B-division at the last European Championship, in November last year in Norway. At the Olympic qualifying tournament in December in Leeuwarden, the team was unable to force participation in the Winter Games in Beijing.
The curling men will play their third game against Canada, winner of Olympic bronze in Beijing, on Sunday evening Dutch time.
Kenyan athlete Jeptum wins Paris marathon in course record
11.18 am: Kenyan athlete Judith Jeptum has broken the women’s course record in the Paris marathon. The athlete won after a long solo in a time of 2.19.48, almost a minute below the old record.
In the men’s race, Ethiopian Deso Gelmisa triumphed in 2.05.07. In the final sprint he defeated his compatriot and fellow escapee Seifu Tura, who ran 2:05:10. Frenchman Morhad Amdouni finished third in 2:05:22. He thus sharpened the French record at 42.195 kilometers.
The Dutchman Bart van Nunen was missing in the match. He wanted to make a limit attempt in Paris for the World Championships in Athletics this summer in the American town of Eugene, but was injured in the run-up to the marathon.
Jaspers wins World Cup Las Vegas
9.33am: For the 27th time in his impressive billiard career, Dick Jaspers has won a world cup tournament in three cushion. In the American gambling city of Las Vegas he defeated the Egyptian Sameh Sidhom in the final 50-43 in 30 innings (1.666/1.482).
It is the second world cup in a row that he has won. Earlier this year, the tournament won in Ankara. The 56-year-old from Brabant started the match very poorly and even saw the break go wrong.
After 6 innings the number one in the UMB world ranking had only made 3 valid three cushions and after 15 innings the balance was in balance with 21-21. Despite the fact that both players managed to make beautiful three cushions and the American public often reacted very enthusiastically, it remained a game without high runs.
Basketball players Nets lose in NBA despite mega score Durant
9.32 am: NBA basketball player Kevin Durant has the highest score ever in his career. He scored 55 points for the Brooklyn Nets in the game against the Atlanta Hawks. Despite that top score from the star of the team, the Nets were unable to win. The Hawks took the win 122-115. For the Atlanta home side, Trae Young was on a roll with 36 points, 9 of which came in the last minute.
Both teams are still battling for a ticket to the play-offs, but the defeat has not strengthened the position of Brooklyn Nets.
Golden State Warriors secured their playoffs with a win over Utah Jazz (111-107). The Warriors were still 21 points behind halfway through the game, but were able to make up for that big deficit and even turn it into a victory. That was partly thanks to Klay Thompson, who made 12 of his 36 points in the final phase.
Spanish motorcycle racer Espargaro gives Aprilia first pole
07:07: Spanish motorcycle racer Aleix Espargaro secured Aprilia’s first-ever pole position at Argentina’s MotoGP. It is for the 32-year-old Espargaro his first pole position since 2015.
Espargaro overtakes Jorge Martin (Pramac Racing) and Luca Marini (Mooney VR46 Racing Team) at Termas de Río Hondo on the front row.
Reigning world champion Fabio Quartararo starts in Argentina from sixth place on the grid.