Talk:Pieter van den Hoogenband

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He's often nickednamed the "Flying Dutchman" in swimming circles and by the media. Perhaps this bit could be included in the intro paragraph? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.215.166.92 (talk • contribs) 18 April 2005 (UTC)

the dutch swimming tradition
In this article the author wrote that Pieter van den Hoogenband and Inge de Bruijn "brought the Netherlands its first real victories in the sport".

However, this is not true. Dutch (female) swimmers have been succesfull since the 1920's. With Marie Braun, Willie den Ouden, Rie Mastenbroek, Nida Senff, Iet van Feggelen and Cor Kint the Netherlands dominated the sport in the 1930's. After World War Two the swimming world met Nel van Vliet, Geertje Wielema, Atie Voorbij, Cocky Gastelaars, Mary Kok, Jans Koster, Lenie de Nijs, Ada den Haan, Ria van Velsen, Tineke Lagerberg and of course Ada Kok; all of them were worldrecordholders. But the story continued in the 1970's and 1980's: Enith Brigitha, Annelies Maas, Conny van Bentum, Annemarie Verstappen, Petra van Staveren and Jolanda de Rover attained many medals at international tournaments.

Therefore, one cannot state that Pieter van den Hoogenband and Inge de Bruijn were the first dutch international swimming stars. On the contrary, they are 'but' the last in a long tradition. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.93.78.40 (talk • contribs) 3 July 2005 (UTC)

Not sure where to put this
"His anchor leg of 46.79 in the 4x100m Freestyle Relay was the fastest split in history" is no longer true as it was beaten by Jason Lezak in 2008. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.67.240.146 (talk) 23:12, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

The comment above isn't true either. In the Heats, Frederick Bousquet swam a 46.63 anchor leg which they reference on air during the final as "the fastest split in history". Then during the finals, Lezak (46.06), Bousquet (46.63) and Alain Bernard (46.73) were all under Hoogie's record for their splits. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.73.141.43 (talk) 01:47, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Dutch naming conventions
Dutch naming conventions state that the first prefix always begins with upper case, unless it is preceded by the given name. E.g. Mister De Boer but Jan de Boer, and not Jan De Boer. 2nd and 3rd prefixes are always fully lowercase. It's all well and good that you have discovered the prefixes are part of the surname, but please apply the rules correctly. Writing prefixed surnames starting with lowercase is considered very ignorant in Dutch. Please note that Flemish naming conventions might differ. CrashTestSmartie (talk) 05:36, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Is it still wrong somewhere? Gap9551 (talk) 20:48, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

You sure about that? I'm Dutch and have never heard of that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.195.251.194 (talk) 14:19, 4 July 2017 (UTC)