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Statue Truus van Lier almost finished: ‘We like to think that we would have been just as heroic ourselves’
At the end of November, the municipality announced that the Utrecht resistance heroine Truus van Lier will be given an official monument. There is already a street named after her…
Amstel Gold Race 2022: with van der Poel, without Alaphilippe… Date and TV channel
AMSTEL GOLD RACE. Winner last year at the photo finish ahead of Tom Pidcock, Wout Van Aert is forfeited for the 2022 edition and leaves the field open to Mathieu…
ATP Marrakesh: Van de Zandschulp wins in first round
VEENENDAAL – Botic van de Zandschulp has secured a place in the second round of the ATP tournament in Marrakesh. At the clay tournament in Morocco, De Veenendaler was too…
Book about Truus van Lier from Utrecht: why did the girl with the ‘forget-me-not eyes’ shoot an NSB member?
The story about the half-Jewish Van Lier is startling. She came from a wealthy family and lived next door to the Rietveld Schröder House. In 1940 she started studying law…
Tour of Flanders: van der Poel winner, Pogacar 4th, the ranking
TOUR OF FLANDERS. For the second consecutive year, Mathieu van der Poel won the Tour of Flanders ahead of Van Barle and Madouas. Without Wout van Aert, sick, the Tour…
Mathieu van der Poel, back to the first
Mathieu van der Poel tamed the mountains of the Tour of Flanders on Sunday April 3 to win a second time. A victory that the grandson of Raymond Poulidor did…
Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel offers himself a second Tour of Flanders
Already winner in 2020 of the Belgian “Monument”, Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix) won the Tour of Flanders again, Sunday April 3. The 27-year-old Dutchman won this 106th edition ahead…
Van Rossem tells about the doctors’ resistance in Kamp Amersfoort
Jan Roorda, a prominent general practitioner from Haarlem, was the founder of Medisch Cerzet. He wrote down his experiences in Kamp Amersfoort. From his diary: “I looked curiously back at…
Podcast Wielaert takes on: the serious dilemmas of Truus van Lier and the scoop of the Vuelta song
She delved into documentation from the NIOD and the Utrecht Archives. And allowed herself the freedom to reconstruct Truus van Lier’s story with dialogues and all. She explains: ‘I thought:…
Jan Willem van Ede about Rick Kruys: ‘He was not the most dynamic player, but they often have the insight
The former goalkeeper has known Rick Kruys all his life. “I literally stood at his cradle in the Vultostraat, I saw him during the World Cup O19 in 2005. He…