Heemskerk weather breaks under extreme pressure – Telegraaf.nl

KAZAN –

Femke Heemskerk thought to have finally dispel the doubts it in the past so often raided at crucial moments. When the swimmer in early December at the Short Course World Championships in Doha, won gold in the 100m freestyle, clenching frustration all together in a primal scream. Freed from all the pressure she swam since one after another top time. But at the “supreme moment”, at the World Championships in Kazan, took the demons of the past regain possession of her head. The fastest woman this year in the 200 free thereby ended Wednesday in the World Cup final in eighth and last. “I saw it actually no longer sit,” said the excited Heemskerk

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The omens do not cheated, Tuesday during the series and semifinals. Then it all went remarkably difficult for the 27-year-old pupil of coach Marcel Wouda, which in April at the Swim Cup in Eindhoven still an impressive 1.54,68 put down. No one was this year faster than Heemskerk. But in the 50 meter pool Kazan she was not a shadow of the confident swimmer who dealt since her world title in Doha in top times. In the semifinals Heemskerk collapsed on the final stretch and reached them just in the nick of the final, seventh (1.56,91).

With hollow eyes they showed then again the doubts that her previously so often beklemden. “Demons in my head. Sometimes it comes back, “confessed Heemskerk, who made just such a stable impression in the run-up to the World Cup. “I see life as a train with carriages and wagons all those standing by me stable on track,” she said before leaving for Kazan. Where sudden doubts have arisen? “I’m very hard on myself at work and that is very often very good, but not now. I’m only human. Tuesday I lost a lot of energy on peripheral matters, I actually looked bleak, but I still can convert button. It sounds stupid, but that was for me a victory. “

Heemskerk volunteered for the final with a painted smile on the starting block of lane 1, but in her head still ruled the doubts. She played all or nothing. At the first turning point Heemskerk was well below the schedule of the world and also after 100 and 150 meters she was still in the lead. It was like a kamikaze tactics, because in the last 50 meters was the fastest swimmer of the year fully inflated. Concurrentes her seven shots all over, Heemskerk finished last in 1.56,79, far behind the newly eighteen Katie Ledecky which celebrated its third world title in Kazan. “My biggest adversary tonight was not Ledecký or Franklin or anyone but myself. But I fight with “

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