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‘That fool still manages to do it’
BEIJING – The life of Sjinkie Knegt was completely turned upside down in three years. On January 10, 2019, he suffered severe burns while lighting his wood-burning stove. That moment and the weeks after, everyone feared for the life of the short track star. ‘He looked like a dead bird’, that’s how his parents described it. The idea that Knegt would ever step on Olympic ice again was a utopia at the time. In Beijing, the Frisian is there again, and not only that, because Knegt also ‘just’ participates again for a medal.