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Why Dutch Sportswomen Triumph Worldwide
5 August 2024
It is one of the most striking trends in the international sports world: at major sporting events, Dutch women are winning one medal after the other. This is not only due to luck; the reasons behind this success can be found outside the sport and the sports experience itself.
Blood or Flowers: Boxing in the Visual Arts
2 February 2023
For many outsiders, boxing is a form of violence that should be banned. But connoisseurs and many artists see things differently. There is a never-ending list of filmmakers, writers and visual artists who have been, and indeed continue to be fascinated by the so-called noble art. Internationally ren
When Painters Go Ice Skating
19 December 2022
Although the Dutch have been ice skating since the thirteenth century, it was not until the sixteenth century that ice skaters would regularly appear in paintings, courtesy of the Flemish Master Pieter Bruegel the Elder and... a climatic phenomenon. Since then, countless artists have ventured out on
‘Farmers’ versus ‘Snobs’. The Social Fault Lines Between Club Brugge and Cercle Brugge
30 November 2022
After a local match between Club Brugge (the “blue-blacks” or the “Farmers”) and Cercle Brugge (the “green-blacks” or the “Snobs”), a player from the winning team plants the flag with his own colours in the middle of the pitch at Jan Breydel Stadium, which has been the home of both t
‘The Time Has Come for Fairer Pay for Female Athletes’
22 August 2019
Due to unrealistic expectations and prejudices, female athletes continue to earn a fraction of what their male counterparts make. Nowhere is the Gender Pay Gap as strongly present as in professional football and cycling. Time for a profound change, thinks Hind Fraihi. There are plenty of arguments f