Yuri van Gelder, our “Lord of the Rings” made a mistake and had to leave Rio before his final Gymnastic Rings-act. A real tragedy for everyone.
But today we watched mainly our athletes at Judo and Gymnastics. Judoka Anicka van Emden did a very good job: she won a bronze medal. Our second medal for Team NL! Anicka is a strong and clever competing woman.
After 40 years the Dutch women showed up again into the Gymnastics-countries -final. Our ladies performed beautiful and disciplined but could not beat the amazing acrobatic girls from USA or those from Russia and China. But we are very proud they reached so far (7th)!
We saw the powerfull Dutch hockey-men play against Canada: 7-0 victory! Great!
Yesterday we told about Dorian van Rijsselberghe. Windsurfing is his second nature: again he moved like a seabird to the second place. With a little luck in the final heat he can even win a Golden Medal!
GO TEAM NL!