Summer boring sports coming? Nothing is less true

Sure, the Tour de France and Wimbledon are in full swing, but other than that, summer doesn’t seem like much at first glance in terms of the sport. After all, there are no Olympics, no European football or the men’s World Cup. Should we then prepare for a boring sports summer?

Absolutely not, say journalist Eric Dykstra and former soccer star Leon Stentler. Sports enthusiast Burr sang Speaking on a talk show Raines What sporting events are they most looking forward to.

It turns out that sports are still very much alive: Wednesday night it was Op1 With Marco Van Basten Best Watch Talk Show. The football legend demanded a change to the offside rule.

Erik Dijkstra in Renze about the sporty summer

Dijkstra says he is very much looking forward to the athlete, Fimik Paul. The World Championships in Athletics will be held in Budapest, Hungary, in August. Fimic Paul is insanely talented. I actually think she wears Johan Cruyff nails,” says the journalist. He compares him to cyclist Mathieu van der Pol. “This is also someone who breathes talent, who has something special and goes beyond himself. Volkskrant I think he once wrote: As if the wind is blowing.

Paul hopes to become a champion in the 400m hurdles this summer. What’s special is that this time she wants to put fourteen steps between the obstacles instead of fifteen. She’s hoping to go a second and a half faster, but according to Dijkstra, that’s a risk. Very very sexy. “I really like athletics because it is very technical. At the highest level, everything revolves around the technique.

Leon Steinler: There’s more positivity about the women’s team

Leon Stettler’s heart will of course beat the fastest at the Women’s World Cup in Australia (metro I spoke to her earlier about the orange lionesses.) “It’s no surprise, I guess.” The Orange Lionesses will kick off against Portugal on July 23 at 09:30 (Netherlands time). “Unfortunately, the Netherlands are no longer one of the favorites. There was a negative atmosphere around the team at the European Championships last year. It was bad, there was another coach. This year is really different.”

For example, the famous football coach Andres Juncker was hired and played a different, more attacking formation. “There is more positivity around it. But it will be very exciting, because we are in a group with the United States.” This is a repeat of the 2019 World Cup final. Then the orange women lost 2-0 to the American soccer players. Stentler calls that memory “painful.”

The first woman who dared to train harder

As a final piece of advice to look forward to, cyclist Erik Dykstra mentioned Animek van Vleuten. “A personal favourite. She is in her final season. Forty years later, there are about 88 years in cycling. It’s still the best ever.”

Van Vleuten is currently working on the Tour of Italy, which she is sure to win, according to Dijkstra. Her secret is that she was the first woman to train harder and dare to train than the rest. Fellow cyclists call her alien, Because she can train very hard. This was always a bit of a put off. The best cyclist right now is Demi Vollering, who was always afraid of Animek van Vleuten. I love that.”

You can have a look at Renze via RTL.

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