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Father Christmas is pinking away a tear in the Netherlands
AMSTERDAM – “The perfect race”, Tristan Bangma summed up the enormous power explosion at Izu Velodrome in three words. Together with his pilot Patrick Bos, the blind cyclist dived on the tandem below the magical limit of four minutes. Never before has the 4 kilometer pursuit been so fast and that resulted in the Netherlands’ first Paralympic gold. “Magnificent. I still don’t realize it.”