Nice hotel day. Picking up stories, ordering difficult Japanese dishes through Uber Eats and watching a little NOS while doing so. Great man, that after some digital tinkering you can just conjure up that station on your iPad in your small hotel room, thousands of kilometers from Hilversum. Lovely to be here, with my nose on top of the action, don’t get me wrong. I already enjoyed football games, skateboarders, rowers, tennis players and the opening ceremony. But the Summer Games, that is also stretching out in front of the TV all day long in your sweatpants and gazing at all those sports that you normally don’t see. ‘At home’ on the sixth of the Toyoko Inn in Nishi-Kasai I enjoyed Femke Heemskerk, who was bouncing with joy in the mixed zone. From the haste of Kiran Badloe. Of those two badly beaten rowers who saw gold turn to bronze because of a ‘pike’. And yes, I had to google that term. Breathlessly I looked at Niek Kimmann’s split knee, who miraculously remained intact on that hillside track. And at the Indonesian rice table arranged by colleague Lisette, which we devoured with chopsticks from an unfolded ironing board, we enjoyed the all-around final of the gymnastics ladies together.
source https://pledgetimes.com/the-summer-games-that-is-also-stretched-out-in-front-of-the-tv-in-your-sweatpants-all-day-long-olympics/
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