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‘I was in contact with Maurits almost every hour’
BEIJING – It was not the dream start that the debut Chef de Mission had envisioned at these Winter Games. Carl Verheijen tested positive for corona more than two weeks ago, only arrived in Beijing today and was therefore not on the front line of all the commotion surrounding Team Zaanlander. Yet the 46-year-old former top skater does not get discouraged quickly. “The positive, the realization that the glass is half full, is in me.”