Olympic bytesThe Winter Olympics in Beijing are underway and the Netherlands is in good shape. In the Olympic bytes section, the sports editors scour the web for the craziest, most beautiful and most striking posts from the Dutch Olympians, their supporters and foreign stars.
Ireen Wusto prepares for the semi-finals of the team pursuit scheduled for tomorrow, but also takes time to reflect on Valentine’s Day. She posts a photo with her wife Letitia de Jong on her Instagram.
The atmosphere is not only good among the Dutch short trackers. The gold ladies in the relay celebrated their medals from Sunday together with the teams of South Korea and China, who took silver and bronze respectively. Yara van Kerkhof showed how that should be celebrated.
For Xandra Velzeboer her dream came true with gold on the relay. The short tracker didn’t need words to express how happy she is with her teammates. The heart under her post after the ceremony at Medal Plaza says a lot about the mutual bond between the short track guns.
makes you very happy Melissa Peperkamp preparing for the big air final. The seventeen-year-old Dutchman still missed a ticket for the slopestyle part, but has taken sporting revenge in the ultimate way.
Also Niek van der Velden made no secret of his joy after reaching the big air finals. ,,A great feeling to reach the finals!”, he captioned an impressive video.
Viewed with a double feeling Rianne de Vries yesterday the golden race of the short track ladies. Pride and jealousy fought for priority with the 31-year-old Frisian, who will finally make her Olympic debut on Wednesday. Much to her luck, De Vries has been designated for the 1500 meters.
Suzanne Schulting has decorated a white wall with her medals in her apartment in the Olympic village. The 24-year-old short track star has already won two gold medals and one silver in Beijing. In a video on her Instagram stories she shows her ‘wall of fame’. Schulting started the Games with silver in the 500 meters. She then extended her Olympic title in the 1000 meters and also took gold with the Dutch relay team on Sunday.
A beautiful video on the Instagram page Lindsay van Zundert, who will make her first appearance at the Olympic Games tomorrow. The seventeen-year-old figure skater, who was still the flag bearer during the opening ceremony together with Kjeld Nuis, shares images from the old box.
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