A good reason for a party, but it remained quite tame, says De Wit. “My parents were there, so we had a nice bite to eat and a beer there, but that was it.”
Don’t talk, just do judo
The coming months will be all about judo. “The World Cup in Abu Dhabi is in three weeks and then the Olympic Games. So there is no time to stand still and reflect on your performance. I think I will do that after the Games.” Then there will be a number of tournaments in which he will not participate.
Yet a month’s holiday is not an option. “That’s not in me. Maybe it also has to do with my upbringing. I have never seen my father take a month off from work. And perhaps it is also a bit of the Heemskerk gardener’s environment in which I grew up. the ‘don’t talk, just clean’ mentality.”
