{"id":4528,"date":"2016-08-10T11:52:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T11:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=4528"},"modified":"2016-08-17T13:25:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T13:25:28","slug":"the-2016-olympics-in-rio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/the-2016-olympics-in-rio\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2016 Olympics in Rio"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2016 Olympics at Rio Photo by Bryan Godfrey from Flickr.com<\/p><\/div>\n

Last week, the Olympic Games began in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Both Belgium and the Netherlands have athletes competing in a variety of sports, and both countries had a pretty good start.<\/p>\n

The Nederlandse Olympische Ploeg<\/i>\u00a0consists of 242 athletes competing in 22 different sports including\u00a0turnen, handbal, boogschieten, paardensport,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0wielersport.\u00a0<\/em>During Sunday’s cycling race, the Dutch cycler Annemiek van Vleuten was in the lead. During the decent, van Vleuten was cycling so fast that even the cameras lost track of her. It seemed the gold medal was for her. Moments after a camera could follow her again, she lost control during a curve and suffered a terrible fall. The second place quickly got ahead and it seemed that the Dutch would have no gold, until the last 500 meters of the race when Anna van der Breggen passed the American, Italian and Swedish cyclists. Van Vleuten is okay and recovering.<\/p>\n