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London Wrap-up

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Sorry for dropping off the face of the earth these last few weeks. Class has started for both of us and it's hard to find time. Excuses Excuses. This may be a bit dry.

I won't be able to put a picture up of every Olympian for the Dutch, but here is a summary of their Olympics. I'll rehash some wins I've already talked about and try to focus on the new ones.

The Netherlands finished the Olympics in 13th place overall with 20 medals total. 6 Gold, 6 Silver, and 8 Bronze. A higher count than Beijing but one less Gold. Still, a good haul for the Dutch, finishing ahead of larger countries like Spain and Brazil.

Medals
Women's Cycling BMX - Bronze; Laura Smulders
Women's Road Race - Gold; Marianne Vos
Men's Cycling Track Keirin - Bronze; Teun Mulder
               Keirin is a form of sprint cycling where the start is speed controlled. Read this. 
Equestrian; 
     Women's Individual Dressage - Silver; Adelinde Cornelissen
      Men's Individual Jumping - Silver; Gerco Schroder
     Team Dressage - Bronze;
     Team Jumping - Silver;
Gymnastics Men's Horizontal Bar - Gold; Epke Zonderland
Field Hockey;
     Men's - Silver;
     Women's - Gold (AGAIN!); (everyones favorite team...)
Judo;
     Women's 70kg - Bronze; Edith Bosch
     Men's 100kg - Henk Grol
Rowing Women's 8 - Bronze
Sailing;
     Men's RS-X - Gold; Dorian van Rijsselberge (Picture Below, I had no idea this was an olympic sport!)
    Women's 470 - Bronze (more what we'd call sailing, 2 people in a boat)
    Women's Laser Radial - Silver; Marit Bouwmeester (look of concentration below)
Swimming;
   Women's 50m Freestyle Gold/Bronze; Ranomi Kromowidjojo/Marleen Veldhuis
   Women's 100m Freestyle Gold; Ranomi Kromowidjojo
   Women's 4x100 Relay Freestyle - Silver

20 Medals. Maybe only 7 won by men. The Netherlands is the home of tough kick your butt women. Sheesh. Now the Olympics are over (a week ago), I'll go back to posting interesting (for you non sports fans) Dutch things. We're still trying to find some Drop so we can try it for ourselves. 



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