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Day 10 Olympic Games: What did I miss? | sport

Day 10 Olympic Games: What did I miss?  |  sport

Look here for the full schedule in Tokyo. Hockey The Dutch hockey players qualified for the semi-final against Great Britain at the Olympic Games. National coach Alyson Annan’s side came to a convincing resolution with New Zealand: 3-0. Athletics Nadine Visser rushed into the fifth fastest time in the 100-meter hurdles final at 4:50 am. Dafne Schippers failed to reach …

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Day 10 Olympic Games: Which Dutch people will take action? | sport

Day 10 Olympic Games: Which Dutch people will take action?  |  sport

Look here for the full schedule in Tokyo. Athletics Nadine Visser rushed into the fifth fastest time in the 100-meter hurdles final at 4:50 am. Dafne Schippers has just reached the 200-meter semi-finals, which are scheduled for later today. Jamile Samuel retired injured. Schippers won Olympic silver five years ago in Rio. Femke Bol runs her 400-meter hurdles semi-finals, Liemarvin …

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Sifan Hassan despite a fall to 1500 meters | sport

Sifan Hassan despite a fall to 1500 meters |  sport

Hassan was still the fastest in her series at 4.05.17, ahead of Australian Jessica Hull (4.05.28) and American Elinor Purrier (4.05.34). She stumbled over Kenyan Edinah Jebitok on the last lap. The Dutchman quickly rushed in and gave chase. The 28-year-old Dutchman had to correct and ran for victory in the last few hundred meters. A feat. Sifan Hassan takes …

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Athlete Hassan makes his first gold attempt at 5,000 meters

Athlete Hassan makes his first gold attempt at 5,000 meters

Athlete Sifan Hassan will go hunting for his first Olympic title on Monday. She runs the 5,000-meter final in the evening (2:40 p.m. Dutch time). Hopefully she will recover well from her 1,500-meter series, which she runs in the morning. Hassan becomes the first athlete to compete in three Olympic running events. Nadine Visser runs the 100-meter hurdles final at …

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Triathletes miss Olympic medal | sport

Triathletes miss Olympic medal |  sport

The Netherlands had to give in 53 seconds to the winning team of Great Britain. The American quartet finished 14 seconds behind the winner. France’s delay at the finish was 23 seconds. Kingma kicked off for the Netherlands and started strong. She came out of the water in second position and ended up forming a leading group with Great Britain, …

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Netherlands narrowly miss medal in mixed 4×400-meter relay | sport

Netherlands narrowly miss medal in mixed 4x400-meter relay |  sport

From lane 7 Bonevacia started strong and was the first to pass the baton to Klaver, who failed to hold onto the lead and fell back to fourth. With impressive acceleration, Bol returned to first place. Angela looked like she was on the verge of a medal, but he couldn’t stop three other men from passing him in the final …

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Embrace Rapinoe, USA overtakes Netherlands in PK

Embrace Rapinoe, USA overtakes Netherlands in PK

Yokohama, Japan (AP) – When Megan Rapinoe arrived to take the penalty, she tried to stay as calm as possible for the time being. “You can take one and lose, or take one and win,” she said. “You go both ways.” It was the winner. Rapinoe turned the decisive penalty into a penalty shoot-out and the United States advanced to …

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Holland Eight rowers just fifth in Tokyo Olympic final

Holland Eight rowers just fifth in Tokyo Olympic final

The boat was fifth from the start and in the 2 kilometer race the team could not improve on this position. Gold went to New Zealand in 5.24.64, silver to Germany (5.25.60) and bronze to Great Britain (5.25.73). The Netherlands crossed the finish line more than 3 seconds after the New Zealanders. The Dutch eight included Bjorn van den Ende …

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Tokyo 2020 | This is what will happen on day 7 of the Olympic Games

Tokyo 2020 |  This is what will happen on day 7 of the Olympic Games

Laura Smulders is even the favorite of women. Sister Merel Smulders and Judy Baauw are the other Dutch semi-finalists. The top eight riders can take part in the finals from 4:40 a.m. Athletics Less than a week after the opening ceremony, the Olympic athletics tournament finally begins. On day one, the Netherlands will only be in action in the preliminary …

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