Sports
The following sports are on the current schedule of the Games:
- Baseball
- Bowling
- Football
- Judo
- Softball
- Swimming
- Tennis
The strength of the team of the Netherlands is adjusted to the strength of the other teams, because normally the level of the Dutch team is much higher compared to the other participants. The Dutch normally participate with regional teams or younger sportspeople to close the gap in quality.
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Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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Time will not be ours forever,
He at length our good will sever.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)