2022 Winter Olympics Beijing

Bloody well done girls :slight_smile:

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Knew the Curlers would come through :+1:

nothing boring about Jutta Leerdam. holy smokeshow. wow.

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You mean this Jutta … :sunglasses:

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tough on the eyes that…

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A bit disappointing only 3 gold medals for Irene Schouten. :joy:

The Netherlands got 17 medals, 8 gold, 5 silver and 4 bronze as predicted all but one on speedskating or short track. :sunglasses:

That’s damn good for a nation that I wouldn’t put as a Winter sports “giant”. But I’m aware that I’m probably wrong on that front.

We are an ice skating nation over canals, lakes etc almost everybody who is born in the Netherlands learn how to skate from the age you can walk. So it develops from a young age. We have a lot of speedskating rings with a roof on them so you can train basically all year round.

We have all done this

Weet u het nog…de tijd van vroeger - YouTube skating

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That was an entertaining google followed by erm, ah……

Ah, I honestly wasn’t aware of that but makes complete sense. Awesome stuff.

Congratulations @Magnus :partying_face: :1st_place_medal: :norway:

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Thank you !

@Semmy because I knew you wanted to know :face_with_hand_over_mouth: Jutta Leerman won the World Championship sprint tonight …

see, the world’s not totally going to shit!

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UK’s screwed. Holland looks good all of a sudden.

Jutta is on a well deserved vacation. :grin:

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Don’t you love windsurfing …

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Come on mate, winter (and Olympics) is long gone. Why don’t you just open a thread for her. :grin:

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