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February 18, 2010 | number 8 The Dutch newspaper in Olympic Vancouver

Davis does it again

Shani Davis of the United States won the men’s 1.000 metres speed skating race Hedrick took bronze in 1:09.34. For the Dutch speed skaters Stefan Groothuis,
at the Richmond Olympic Oval yesterday. The defending Olympic gold medallist Mark Tuitert en Simon Kuipers the race was quite disappointing. They ended forth,
skated a time of 1:08.94. Korea’s Mo Tae-Bum claimed silver in 1:09.13, USA’s Chad fifth and sixth. Photo: ANP

Double fall
for Van der Wal
Dutch snowboarder Dolf van der Wal
has not been able to make it to the fi-
nals of the half-pipe event. On Cypress
Mountain, Van der Wal fell twice during
his two runs, and finished 18th out of
the 20 competitors with 14.5 points
being his highest score. That was by far
not enough to make it into the semifi-
nals. The gold went, as expected, to the
American Shaun White, who scored a
total of 48.4 points. Photo: ANP
2 The Daily Dutch International
Lindsey Vonn takes
gold in downhill Dutch thingies
to take home
Although billboard-girl Lindsey Vonn had
troubles with her body, she showed why she
could be the queen of these Olympics. In grand
fashion, the 25-year-old won the United States’
first ever Olympic gold medal on the women’s
downhill. Her teammate Julia Mancuso took The merchandise of the Holland Heineken but every visitor wants to walk with gold around
the silver, being 0.56 of a second behind Vonn. House interests lots of visitors. The goodies from their neck. Bloetjes: “It came to my attention that
The bronze medal went to Elisabeth Goergl, Heineken, specially designed for the Vancouver these openers on the black market are sold for 150
representing Austria. 2010 Olympics, are sold more often than hot- percent of the normal retail price. That definitely
dogs during a hockey game. shows how popular they are.”
The orange colored products are doing fine as well.
Cross country events By Tobias Bos “These are equally popular with Canadian and
one big surprise “The sell goes amazingly well,” Marije Bloetjes says.
Dutch visitors.” Shane from Vancouver likes the
products with the Canadian and Dutch flag next to
The two classic sprint events ended up in two She works at the Holland Heineken House store. each other. “That’s a nice souvenir to say ‘I’ve been
big surprises. The Norwegian Marit Bjoergen Since they opened, orange hats, scarves and bottle in the Holland Heineken House’.”
won the first gold medal for her country openers sell pretty well. “Especially during the first “We didn’t expect that the Heineken products
these Olympics. She beat Polish world cup few days there were waiting lines all over the place. would become so popular,” says Bart Bosma, res-
leader Justyna Kowalczyk, who won silver and And you should know, we work here always with ponsible for the merchandise. “They are real thin-
Petra Majdic, bronze medalist, with more than two to four people. gies.” Unfortunately, the sold out products won’t be
one second. In the men’s event there was an The medal shaped bottle openers were sold out wit- produced again, so the merchandise shop will be
unexpected winner as well. The two Russians hin a few days. Heineken produced 2.500 openers, open, until every single product is sold out.
Alexander Panzhinskiy and Nikita Kriukov
went side by side the last hundred meters. A
photo finish decided it was the 24-year-old
Kriukov who won the gold.
Behind the scenes

Sjinkie Knegt in ‘The strangest question? What


quarter-finals kind of beer do you sell?’
Dutch shorttracker Sjinkie Knegt qualified for
They know everything about the Holland sary luxury. Eline: “People will ask us the strangest
the men’s 1.000-metre quarter-finals Wednes- things, but until now, we were able to answer
Heineken House. Dutch and Canadian fans
day night. Knegt posted a time of 1.25,449. The every single question. We’ll tell them where they
can ask all their questions at the informa-
quarter-finals will be next Saturday. can find the different venues and what people can
tion desk. Eline Spangenburg (24) and Felice
Bakker (21) have the answers. see in the Holland Heineken House. The strangest
question? That’s got to be one from a group of
By Mathijs Vuister Canadians. With a dead serious face they asked us

Programme
what kind of beer we were selling here. That gave
“I really want to be a part of the Holland Heineken us a pretty good laugh.”
House. About a year ago, I got in touch with em- Next to all the information, the two ladies have
Today ployment agency Randstad. I even sent them a box an educational function as well. Felice: “We try to
9.00 pm - De Coronas of chocolates,” Eline says. “I’ve been in Vancouver learn our Canadian visitors some Dutch sentences.
9.45 pm - DJ Ronald for six months, so I know my way around in the When they are in de Medal Ceremony Hall, they
11.30 pm - DJ until closing time (2.00 am) neighbourhood. At the information desk, I can should be able to order a beer in perfect Dutch.
tell every visitor where they have to be for the But we make sure they only learn the numbers
Tomorrow Olympic events.” Felice knows the surroundings ‘één’ and ‘twee’, so they won’t order too many
9.00 am - Holland Heineken House opens of Vancouver as well. “I’ve studied at BCU for four glasses.”
9.00 pm - De Coronas years. It makes it a lot easier for me to answer the Eline and Felice enjoy working at the Information
9.45 pm - DJ Ronald visitor’s questions in English.” desk. Eline: “We’ve got a great time together, and
10.30 pm - Evers slaat door! band Certainly, the information desk is no unneces- we like to chat a lot. That helps, definitely.”
11.30 pm - DJ until closing time (2.00 am)

Colophon The Daily Dutch


Tobias Bos, Pim Brassien, Twan Clarijs, Richard
Geeve, Marlot Hak, Paul de Lange (coordinator),
Rens Lieman, Gert-Jan Peddemors (coordinator),
Marjolein Reezigt (lay-out), Ingrid van Rooijen,
Femke van der Veen, Mathijs Vuister (editor).
The international edition of The Daily Dutch is made by
students from the School of Journalism in Utrecht, Eline (left) and Felice can answer all your questions. Photo:Tobias Bos
The Netherlands

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