And then she went on later in the day to win gold on the 5,000 metres. The first Olympic gold in athletics for the Netherlands since Ellen van Langen in 1992. She came to the Netherlands as a 15 year old child from Ethiopia, and this is how she repays her new country
#sifanhassan
This is the interview of Liemarvin Bonevacia. In Dutch, but you don't need to understand Dutch to know what he means, just look at the body language. Ik love Nederland. I love the Netherlands.

geenstijl.nl/5160401/video-…
Born in Curacao, a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Carribean, he now runs for the Netherlands at the Olympics. And the first Dutchman to reach the Olympic final in the 400m.

It is so easy to like immigrants when they are winning for your country.
But these people are not different from 100s of Syrian refugees who helped clean up the mess after the floods in Germany. Or the immigrants working in the NHS. Or driving your trucks. Or picking your fruit. Immigration is not a bad thing. Indeed, thanks to many immigrants
persecuted in the rest of Europe, the Netherlands had a Golden Age in the 17th century. The US is a country of immigrants. It is time those who abuse the RNLI are told in a very firm way, that asylum seekers are not risking their lives to come here for the easy life.
They come here to make a living and contribute to society.

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28 Oct 20
#soygate : A short thread.

Now don't get me wrong, I have had as much fun as most tweeting about this. But as soy(a) sauce is now trending, here are some other bits of news that somehow failed to have such an impact on the average person in the UK 1/
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it was far away, he couldn't be expected to be on top of everything, and people wouldn't understand anyway".
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My first ever caption competition!

Best entry wins a follow from a pro European dinosaur (who doesn't know that yet)

I'll start it off.

"And if there are any ladies wanting more, I have one more sausage to stuff yourself with"
Bugger, can I change my entry into:

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That is it, I declare this caption competition over and declare myself the winner.

Reeks, follow me you dinosaur!!!
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