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Muslim girls at a festival in Lagos, Nigeria.ANP/EPA picture Africa is not a country. Not all children cry with hungry bellies and faces full of flies. Not every African country is under a dictator (only ten percent) and the continent is not meant to be a safari park for Western tourists. Yes, these seemingly entrenched prejudices are sometimes quite high …

Pole vaulter Menno Vloon reached the final of a World Cup for the first time in his career overnight from Friday to Saturday. In the 4×100 meters relay, Dutch teams disappointed at Hayward Field Stadium in Eugene. Vloon, 28, was one of twelve athletes who managed to conquer a height of 5.75 meters in qualifying. He reached this height on …

The Red Flames were knocked out of the European Championship in England. On Friday evening, the Belgian women’s football team lost 1-0 to Sweden in the quarter-finals. The adventure of the Red Flames European Championship in England ends in the quarter-finals. Sweden, the big favorite, proved to be too high a hurdle on Friday evening. In Leigh, the Belgians lost …

A year after the Olympic bronze in Tokyo, Femke Bol wants to win silver or gold in the final of the World Championships in Athletics in Eugene on Friday. The task is tough – she must face the two best athletes of all time in the 400 meters hurdles – but not impossible. “Femke is in the shape of her …

Golfer Lars van Meijel made his major tournament debut last week at Scotland’s illustrious St. Andrews golf course. The 28-year-old from Best immediately made the cut in the busy field and saw golfing legends such as Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy in person. Lars, your first middle finger and then immediately make the cut. How was it? “Really fantastic. Of …

New Zealand soccer star Meikayla Moore scored a hat-trick of own goals in an international match against the United States on Sunday night. In half an hour, she passed the ball three times past her own goalkeeper. Moore, 25, even scored a so-called “perfect” hat-trick: with the right, with the head and with the left. The goals came in the …

Belgium will be the opponent of Dutch hockey players in the quarter-finals of the World Cup on Tuesday. Dutch national coach Raoul Ehren’s team proved far too strong for Chile on Saturday night in Amstelveen in the intermediate round: 5-0. Belgium already opened the scoring in the sixth minute via Stéphanie Vanden Borre, who struck from a penalty corner. Just …

The Sports Affairs Department is taking steps to ensure that women’s sport is firmly established, starting with women’s football. The challenges within the Surinamese sports community for women in sport demanded the necessary attention from Minister Gracia Emanuel and Sporting Director Gordon Touw Ngie Tjouw. On behalf of the minister, the sports director held talks with various organizations including the …

Anneke Beerten has won a mountain bike world championship three times and twice won a gold medal in the BMX world championship. His specialty in mountain biking: 4 crosses. An extreme discipline in which four cyclists, wrapped in protectors, compete. They start behind a fence and then descend at lightning speed on a very technical course with bumps, rock gardens …

Henrik Stenson has been relieved of his role as captain of the European Ryder Cup team with immediate effect. The Swede is set to move on to the controversial LIV Golf Invitational Series. “Due to decisions made by Henrik, it has become clear to us that he will not be able to meet certain contractual obligations which will prevent him …