Belgian born wants to ignite for the Netherlands at the Gymnastics World Cup | Sport

Logic typical of Louwije. If you want to prepare delicious potatoes you can fry them according to the Belgian beef white recipe. All those who want to perform at the highest level worldwide take refuge in the Dutch school.

If anyone knows what he wants, it's Louwije, 24 years old. At the age of 10, he left his parental home to settle in the Ghent sports center. At the age of 18, he moved to Den Bosch alone, where he became a member of Flik Flak and joined the current national coach, Bram van Bokhoven. He did not have any money. Ambitions all the more. His parents gave him his life needs. "It was sifting."

In 2015, he made his debut on behalf of Belgium at the World Championships in Glasgow. Anonymous, with 35th place as a complete result. At the 2016 European Championships in Bern, he will be fifteenth on horse in the bow as the Flemish call it. The Louwije talent seemed on a dead track. Especially when he also failed to qualify for the Rio Games.

The guide that was presented to him at the end of 2016. done by the KNGU was little more than a little gift from God. "Suddenly, I was offered to become a Dutch citizen." It was possible to obtain a passport within a year, because I lived in the Netherlands for five years and was one of the five This accelerated the procedure, I had to give up my Belgian nationality, and anyway I wanted to stay in the Netherlands. "

On June 14, 2017, he became a Dutch resident, just in time to participate on behalf of the Dutch team. compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Incidentally, integration still had the necessary feet in the ground. "At college in Belgium, I gave up the last year for the Dutch course.That's why I had to do a reading, listening, writing exam." And while I grew up in Flanders, did I suddenly have a question like this: What can you buy from a baker? Very special. "