Despite the disappointing results at the World Cups starts, Antoinette de Jong on Friday, with a lot of confidence in the NK distances in Thialf. The 24-year-old schaatsster Jumbo-Visma learned in the last few months, they will find themselves more and more often, one must take in order to get the most out of themselves and to be able to catch up.
“I was riding like a pancake, I can’t make it”. The kid at the end of november, when the Dutch, in no uncertain terms-hard-for-itself, as in Poland, Tomaszów Mazowiecki, to be the second world cup in a row, disappointed in the 3 km away.
After a great qualifying tournament in Thialf, where they will have four different distances to wereldbekertickets captured it, and wanted to simply not advancing to the World Cups in belarus Minsk, and Poland.
“this was because of several factors. But it was a bit silly that I have to be there for the World Cups and all the little things next to the bed, like ever. This is, however, a point of criticism”, commented The Young, recently at a press conference in Almere back on that difficult period of time.
What does not help is that her boyfriend is just a few days before the first set of World Cups to his shoulder blade, and a thumb break. “I’m a very caring type and that is all a bit of a sideways move in order to take care of him, and that was not easy. Even though I had to leave. It was a shock. It took a lot of energy, and that was a shame.”
“I was more tired on the road, the ice cream was still soft, so I had to compensate with a strength that wasn’t there. I’ve also learned, as I have set myself now to be more on one. I’m at home, be very careful, however, when skating, you’ve got to be selfish and focus on yourself. It is nice to see that I once seen in you.
Antoinette de Jong, stated disappointment at the World Cup. (Photo: Pro-Shots).
“I’m not worried about my form,”
with The Young, to see her, proved disappointing World Cups as a driving force to be a technical improvement in our performance. If she complained, after her 3 miles in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, which she got from her schaatshoeken was driving, and she says that she has been overtaken by events ran, because there was a “kind of a bug in its auto-pilot” was.
“On 3 miles you’ll hit it with three more rounds to go, get tired, and there’s a vechtmodus to it, but it was for me to be a technical error,” she said. “I was going to be more forward, while I kniehoek needs to continue to push, and my success must be in place as soon as possible to the finish line to want to pick it up.”
The Young had the good sense just to return to the outdoor track in the Italian Collalbo, where the Jumbo-Visma in the beginning of training camp. That time came in handy for the Friezin.
“By who, the World Cups and you have a lot of travel and you won’t have enough time to work out. In Collalbo, it could finally be back, though, so that was nice. I have a very good feeling about the training. Technically it feels like it will be business as usual.”
Antoinette de Jong did very well in the World Cup qualifying tournament. (Photo: Pro-Shots).
‘In a Vessel capable of the same Ms, as during the qualifier,’
The Young is, anyway, not to worry, but also because of its start to the season of similarities with that of the previous year. In 2018, she is also disappointed in the first race – they are calling her performance by 2018, in the Japanese Obihiro and Tomakomai “horrible,” but restored them in december at the World Cup in Heerenveen, the netherlands.
“I’m expecting a similar scenario, so I don’t worry,” says Young, who, in January, it peaked due to the European championship, an all-round win. “The national championship is the same Ms as the qualifying tournament for the World Cups, so I expect that I will be there all the lash out of it.”
now, On to the national championship, his ticket to earning the huge tournament in 2020 (world CHAMPIONSHIPS, european CHAMPIONSHIPS, distance, and world CHAMPIONSHIP allround/sprint). With the disappointing performance in the season is a big part of it, but The Young will have learnt how to use these pressure points to be used.
“In the qualifying tournament for the Olympic Games, I’d be very, very busy, and I felt that I had during the race, superzenuwachtig, but now I can’t. I know I’m in the big races on my own. The closer they get, the more my body is ready to get good results.”
