Congrats to the US women soccer team, they played a great tournament but I am incredibly proud of our Dutch women, they gave the US a good game and the US had to play their hardest to win of the Netherlands.
But still, silver at the World Cup soccer women, first stage winner at the Tour de France with a local cyclist who has also won the yellow jersey and today his team won the second stage of the Tour de France and now the Jumbo Visma team has the first 5 places in the overall standings, the yellow jersey, the green jersey, the white jersey and the leader in the team standings.
And Marianne Vos (a female Dutch cyclist) has won yesterdays stage and today's stage in the 2019 Giro Rosa. Anne Terpstra has won the first ever world cup stage in the Mountain biking discipline.
Max Verstappen won the Austrian Grand Prix last weekend, Ajax was semi finalist in the Champions league.
Van der Poel (Matthieu) has won the European/Dutch/World championship cyclo cross. In fact of the last 34 cyclo crosses he participated in he won 32. On the road he won the world tour races Dwars door Vlaanderen (straight through Vlaanderen), the Fleche Brabançonne and the biggest one, the Amstel Gold Race. He has also just started with Mountain biking and has 8 victories in the season so far. In the first cycle contest on the mountain bike (the Belgian MTB challenge) in which he won all 3 stages and the overall standing.
At the world indoor cycling the Dutch have won 6 gold medals, 4 silver medals and one bronze medal.
At the world championships speed skating (all round) we won the men's world championship and third place. And won 6 other medals with the men and the Bronze all round at the women's championship and 5 other medals.
At the world cup speed skating by distance, the Dutch won 8 gold (out of 16), 6 silver and 2 bronze.
Last week we won the women's field hockey pro league international tournament.
Kiki Bertens is ranked 4th in the women's tennis rankings.
Epke Zonderland won gold at the European Championship gymnastics on the horizontal bar.
And many many many other achievements. I think for a small country we are not doing that badly LOL.
But still as always, proud of the Netherlands and it's representatives.