Kees Verkerk News Today

Former figure skater Sjoukje Dijkstra has died at the age of 82, her daughter, Katja Kossmayer, confirmed in a post on Facebook. Dijkstra won an Olympic gold medal at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, becoming the first Dutch athlete to ever win a gold medal during the Winter Olympic Games.She also won a silver medal four years earlier, and secured three world titles and five European championships. She was chosen as the female athlete of the year in the Netherlands six times.

January 6: Gianluca Vialli (58), Italian footballer, former striker for Juventus and Chelsea, among others. Won the Italian title in 1991 and 1995 and also won the Champions League with Juventus in 1996 in the final against Ajax. January 8: Sietse Bosgra (87), anti-apartheid activist, one of the founders of the Angola Committee, which was later renamed Komitee Southern Africa, which raised a lot of money for the African National Congress (ANC), the long-banned anti-apartheid movement of Nelson M...