Be-Ne-Lux

A few days ago we got the information that Luxembourg doesn't get his own team, instead we will be part of the new BeNeLux team (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg). 2010 in Hungary we (Vanessa and myself) have been the Lux part of the BeLux team. I believe we were eleven plus Edward, our team captain.

Now it seems, that the central organization team detected, that the team from the Netherlands was bigger than the usual rate of athletes per employees. I'm not 100% sure, but I think it works as follows: At a given point in time the organization team takes the number of employees of Allianz S.E. on one hand and the number of athletes allowed for the next games on the other hand. The ratio between both is the percentage for each country or region. That means that countries with a lot of Allianz employees can send a big team to the games (like e.g. Germany). A country with only a few employes can send probably only one or it will be aggregated with other countries in the region (like Luxembourg).

In the past, Netherlands sent 25 athletes. Much more than Allianz employes peoples in this country (probably). The new number is now 19 (!) for Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg togehter. 19 instead of 36! So you can imagine, the qualification will be very hard.

The only two sports where I have a chance not to stultify myself are swimming and running. But I have no results who can prove my competitiveness. This year I cycled and made Triathlons, but no Half-Marathons and no real Swimming. So it seems, I have to leave Zürich out.

But the hope dies last. I'll keep you posted.