One of my favorite TV shows started a new season today: Holland Sport. Not just you regular TV program about sport, they try to look at sport from different sides as well. Like with a professional cyclist who was a guest today. He (Jans Koerts) broke about 8 or 9 bones in his body while crashing in a fast (75, 80km/h) decent in some cycling race in Portugal. And just that description was probably how it was broadcasted in the news just after it happened 2 months ago. But now we get the amazing details about the event! Apparently he was cut of in a corner by one of the following cars, had to take the outside of a turn, lost control and went straight at an old Portuguese lady who was watching the race… he avoided the lady, but that caused him to run straight into the wall of her house… It was a natural reaction to try and avoid the lady, but what if… what if he would have just crashed into her… he would probably not have broken a bone, or at least not close to 10… and still be a professional cyclist today. But with that speed, combined with her age, she would have probably not been able to tell the story after such a crash. Fascinating that such split seconds decisions can have such a big impact on things…

But more fascination in the show! The world long jump champion was there as well and together with him they “replayed” his personal best jump of 8.60… That distance… more then 8 and a half meter… weird to actually stop for a moment and look and understand how far that distance actually is… amazing… Already looking forward to more fascinating stories on next weeks show! :-)

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