Cempaka Belanda: Sochi 2014: Dutch speed skaters' utter dominance worries beaten rivals

"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version)

"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Sochi 2014: Dutch speed skaters' utter dominance worries beaten rivals

• Claims that Netherlands' 23 medal haul is damaging sport

• UK Sport Director meets Dutch to improve British effort

theguardian.com, Owen Gibson, Sunday 23 February 2014

Silver medalist Jan Smeekens, gold medallist Michel Mulder and bronze
medalist Ronald Mulder during the flower ceremony for the Men's 500m
Speed Skating.

Jan Smeekens, Michel Mulder and Ronald Mulder celebrate one of the Netherlands' four medal sweeps in the speed skating arena. Photograph: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images

Never mind total football - the Adler speed skating arena has witnessed total Oranje domination at this year's Winter Games.

After the Netherlands took their medal total to an extraordinary 23 of the total of 36 on offer in the sport in Sochi, the international federation has said it will look into the programme.

With victories for both the men and women in Saturday's climactic team pursuits, they broke the record for the most gold medals won by a single nation in a single event at the Olympic Games.

Simon Timson, the UK Sport performance director, is among those who has met with the Dutch in Sochi to share knowledge and swap tips in the hope that British sport can learn from their dominance.

Rivals have complained that their dominance, which included a record number of gold medals in a single Games and a record four clean podium sweeps, is damaging the sport.

Rather like the British team when they began to dominate track cycling, the Dutch believe rivals are just jealous. The depth of competition in Holland, where speed skating is long established as a major sport, has produced a squad of astonishing quality.

The tall, languid Dutch skaters finished as they began on Saturday, winning both the men's and women's team pursuit finals to take their total number of gold medals to eight.

Women's star Irene Wust won her fifth medal of the Games, all of them gold or silver, and her eighth in total. The men's team beat Korea in their final by almost three seconds, with Sven Kramer claiming his seventh Olympic medal.

His teammate Jan Blokhuijsen was jubilant as the Dutch assumed their familiar position on the podium in an arena that has been packed with orange-clad fans and an oompah band for the duration.

"This was an amazing race, the best we ever skated, the three of us. We sacrificed our individual programmes the last four years to do this," he said. "It is a great feeling. It is fantastic to race so fast in the Olympic final."

Koen Verweij added: "We live for the sport, we work very well together. We give everything. This is just our thing."

Before they left for the Games, Dutch officials set an overall target of nine medals - one more than they managed in Vancouver. They have ended up with almost three times as many in a single sport, in which they have a long tradition stretching back to frozen lakes in the seventeenth century.

Despite confidence in their high performance system, and a deep pool of talent that supports seven professional teams with a total of around 60 skaters, the scale of their success has come as a surprise even to the supporters who pack the Heineken House fan venue.

The Netherlands sit fifth in the overall medal table, despite having only won a single medal outside long track speed skating.

The Dutch, a familiar sight on the orange bicycles that they use to get from the Olympic Village to the rink, have dominated a single event like never before.

The domination of their speed skating athletes has been total, with traditional rivals such as the USA, Canada and Norway utterly humiliated. The Americans in particular have struggled. In the early stages, there were questions over their "top secret" skin suit, which some experts claimed was actually slowing them down.

But after reverting to their old suits, they did no better and finished without a medal in the event for the first time since the Sarajevo Games in 1984. To rub in the humiliation, Holland have also surpassed America's overall total of speed skating medals - passing into triple figures in the process.

Ahead of the men's 10,000m there was a mass withdrawal by other nations, who questioned whether it should stay in the Olympic programme. "It is only interesting for the Dutch," claimed the Ukrainian Dmitriy Babenko, who finished twelfth of 14 in the final.

But the International Skating Union, which has said it will look into the Olympic programme to see if Holland's rivals are "sleeping, or what", has backed the retention of the race.

The Dutch make no apologies for winning. And winning. "We are not ashamed by winning such a level of medals, of course, because we trained very, very hard," said Gerard Dielessen, secretary of the Dutch Olympic Committee, who leads a team that is smaller than Great Britain's.

"We want to dominate that sport. So the distance we have now between us and the other countries, we are proud of that," he added.

"It's a challenge for us to keep the distance. What we say to the other countries, well, they failed. They have to train harder."

Not only do the Dutch sound like champions, their rivals sound beaten. The US team that won four medals in Vancouver has ended up with one in Sochi. After losing in the team pursuit, US skater Jonathan Kuck appeared ready to throw in the towel.

"It's nice to realise that it's only speed skating. There are loads of other things to look forward to in life. I'm done with skating. I want to go back to school and do other stuff apart from skating. I think I want to do computer science," said Kuck.

"Normally when I skate well I look back at a competition with a rosy glow. I will not have the fondest memories of these Olympics." For the Dutch, it is a different story.

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