Just a little something I put together after watching the race. I hope you like it ( Read more... )

just a few moments ago there it was, pieter raced in the 100m freestyle. 
he doesn't won though, the gold went to alain bernard.
pieter got the 5th place.

but still i'm happy for hoogie. his timing was not so bad. and dont forget his competitors are way younger.

i'm still and will be hoogie's no#1 fan...

the men's 100m freestyle olympics 2008 results

Hello dear Pieter fans, how's life? Well today I was checking out some You Tube videos and came upon the famous Sanex commercial. Someone uploaded the 34 sec. clip which is very nice. So here I bring the link to everyone's benefit. I'm not sure if this is another commercial made later this year of if this is the same one which supports his "in the ( Read more... )

Finally there's joyful baby news concerning Pieter!

Minouche gave birth to a baby girl this morning and they named her Daphne van den Hoogenband :)

Let's hope that little Daphne has inherited her daddy and mommy's swimming genes!

Hello my dear Hoogenband fans,how's it going?

Well as a St. Patrick Day ocassion, I found several clips of our fav swimmer on Dutch news websites. They're English-Dutch spoken interviews about Pieter and his training process at Australia. I must comment that they're very interesting and my personal comment about him is that,seeing him swimming in ( Read more... )

Hello again! Well, according to this article,which is in Dutch but I used Alta Visa translator,Hoogenband and his wife will have their first born next June. I'm soo confused about this pregnancy thing; let's remember, they published the whole baby-thing last year but it never happened and now, here we go again! My best wishes for them,he must be so ( Read more... )

Hello dear Hoogie fans! Well girls(and boys if any)I'm showig you a link of a Dutch swimming website that contains a short interview clip featuring Hoogenband. I must warn you that the content is in Dutch, but anyway our fav swimmer appears there(looking great of course) :-).
Well enjoy it!

http://www.hollandswimming.com/index.php?option=com_content& ( Read more... )

Hello dear Hoogie fans! Well girls(and boys if any)I'm showig you a link of a Dutch swimming website that contains a short interview clip featuring Hoogenband. I must warn you that the content is in Dutch, but anyway our fav swimmer appears there(looking great of course) :-).
Well enjoy it!

( Read more... )

Has anyone heard any news on the new vdH baby? I thought Minouche was supposed to give birth in November. Any news would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!