The BBC (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/cpd9e0r2dxmo) and the Daily Mail (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13680667/dutch-child-rapist-steven-van-velde-booed-olympics-beach-volleyball.html) both report on a certain Mr Van de Velde, a Dutch vollyball player competing at this year’s Paris Olympics.
From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_van_de_Velde): “Your hopes of representing your country [as an Olympic athlete] now lie as a shattered dream” and “He [Van de Velde] has lost a stellar sports career and has been branded a rapist. Plainly it is a career end for him”.
I am not going to join in the chorus of justified criticism of Mr Van de Velde for many of te commentors on the DM’s website appear to be doing an excellent job.
However, I will comment upon our Dutch friends across the Channel, specifically those who constitute the Dutch Olympic Committee: Voor een man en een vrouw zijn jullie een armoedig en gewetenloos stelletje egoïstische hypocrieten! [courtesy of Google translate] You are, to a man and woman, a shabby and unprincipled bunch of self serving hypocrites!
This because this very same committee was more than likely the ones behind the person instructing the Dutch lawyer to force the Unfortunate Charlotte Dujardin from the games – their thinking being that by removing the UK’s best medal chance in a sport that they are likely to do well in would advance their interests. I am sure that Charlotte and her husband have some strong opinions on this and their (the Dutch) accommodation of Mr Van de Velde.
Of course, a fitting and poetically justifiable response to Mr Van de Velde’s membership of the Dutch Olympic team and Charlotte’s enforced absence from the UK’s team would be a short demonstration bout of boxing between Mr Van de Velde and a member of the UK’s boxing team, a certain Mr Patrick Brown!
Mr Brown is the same height as Mr Van de Velde – but of course of a much more powerful build.
Normally it would be a no contest between the two men and Mr Brown (above) being the professional boxer he is would eschew any such match. However, a bout in which Mr Brown would be requested to teach Mr Van de Velde the error of his ways without damaging him too much – just a little bit – would be most satisfying to watch!