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No medal for Lafrisen and Hoagland at the Nations Cup in Cali
09:28 am Cyclists Harry Lafrisen and Jeffrey Hoagland missed medals in the Keren portion of the Nations Cup competitions in Cali. Lafrisen won the final in the Colombian city of B. Hoogland came in fourth. Nicholas Poole of Trinidad and Tobago won the final. Dutch cyclists will compete in the sprint race on Sunday.
Hetty van der Woo just lost a medal in the 500m. She took fourth place, 0.759 seconds behind Colombia’s Martha Bayona. Stevie van der Peet finished seventh.
Mylene de Zoet finished ninth in the world race. The win went to American Jennifer Valenti.
Nearly 2 million viewers of the first European Championship match of the Orange Lionesses
9:11 am Nearly two million people watched the first game of the Orange Ducks in the European Football Championship in the United Kingdom on Saturday night. The Dutch national team tied with Sweden 1-1.
This is almost as many viewers as the women’s first match during the previous European Championship, in our country in 2017. Then the Netherlands beat the Norwegian women. The most watched broadcast about the then European Championship was a tribute to the Dutch women, with 5.4 million viewers.
The women’s match was the most watched TV show of all time on Saturday night.
