The KNSB previously announced that Antoinette Rijpma-de Jong, Joy Beune and Marijke Groenewoud can participate in the World All-round Championships. Conijn expressed her dissatisfaction about this on Thursday. “It is very unfair not only for myself, but for everyone who did not attend the Games and continued training for this National Championship,” she said at the time. The Edam woman also indicated that she would start driving, but she has now backed out.
“I was really pissed about that,” said her coach Jillert Anema NOS. “I thought she had put her frustrations aside then. But now she is not participating in the 3000 meters. She is extremely frustrated. The skating association must also adhere to rules and let the winner of the National Championships go to the World Cup.”
