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Goed nieuws! Ik kom terug naar Nederland! In de afgelopen maanden ben ik tot de conclusie gekomen dat mijn volgende stap op de Road to Tokyo 2021 mij terug naar Nederland voert! Ik train, eigenlijk al sinds een paar weken, bij Marlies Larsen in Zoetermeer en ga mij samen met Marlies voorbereiden op de Olympisch […]

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📬‼️ I found someone prepared to cover my Olympic season for me on my website and instagram. We kick of with a preview of the upcoming season and more posts will follow for every competition:

In exactly eighty days, the Olympic Games will start in Tokyo. More than eleven weeks before the start of the most important tournament this year, Douwe starts his outdoor season this Saturday in Lisse.

Here he starts an outdoor season that should lead to Olympic qualification. A goal for which he has put a lot aside. After years of training in Leverkusen he returned to Zoetermeer this winter.

That has worked well so far. “I have noticed that the collaboration with Marlies Larsen Is getting better and better. I am starting to understand better and better what is important to me to jump high. I can have the tendency to sometimes forcefully look for a detail, while now with Marlies I focus on what works for me. What do I naturally do and how can we benefit as much as possible from it ”, Douwe himself responds to his preparation in the Netherlands and the training camp he set up in Antalya.

The goal is now to look at the jump more as a whole during the competitions. In the indoor season, Douwe already felt the progress, but it was not yet clear in results. He therefore missed out on the European Indoor Championships.

According to Douwe, this could have gone differently with a few extra weeks. “With the switch to Zoetermeer and the injury that I was left with last season, the qualifying moment for the European Indoor Championships came just a little too early. But I continued the upward trend after the indoor season. I think it would have been there a few weeks later.”

In the outdoor season, placement for the Olympic Games will be the main goal in this upward trend. “I hope I can show that free and natural jumping this season. If I succeed in that, I can jump heights with which I can qualify ”, Douwe is looking ahead to the chances of Olympic qualification.

The coming weeks will show whether the desired effect will be achieved. “It's quite difficult, but also a lot of fun,” Douwe laughs, looking ahead to the new season. ...

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The finishing line is in sight.

Not only of the Corona crisis, but also that of the Road to Tokyo. There is still a lot of uncertainty, and both finish lines are written in pencil, but it looks like we are on the home straight. If we are to believe the president of the IOC Thomas Bach, the Olympic Games will even be the celebration in which we celebrate the victory over Corona. A party where you have to be home before ten because there is still a curfew maybe.

A vaccination campaign that is gaining momentum, a society that is slowly opening up again, but virus variants that try to put a stick between the spokes of an opening world, create a special situation with an Olympic Season just around the corner.

You could say that the Olympics come too soon. With the city of Tokyo in a lockdown again this week due to rising contamination numbers. But the Games continue and so preparations have to be made. Last year I wrote a blog on my website about the lack of a decision to postpone the games, in which I indicated that the health of the athletes is being jeopardized by the IOC.

In recent weeks it has become apparent that this is actually a risk. The European Indoor Championships in Torún turned out to be a source of infections, with almost 60 positive cases divided among the delegated teams. Going on a training camp is also not without risk.

As everyone has been constantly weighing risks for more than a year, with some completely socially isolating themselves, and others pushing the limits of the possibilities, preparing for Tokyo is also one big risk assessment.

Whether or not to ga on a training camp, do competitions abroad or not, have social interactions or not. The closer the Games get, the greater the impact of Corona can be. Suppose I get Corona in the middle of the two months that I have to qualify for Tokyo. Then I’m done…

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Playing around on a sunny day. When you ask me why I’m a high jumper, I’ll show you this video. So much fun! 😄 ...

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