What the Tour of Flanders is to cycling-loving Belgium, the cup final is to the national volleyball freak: the emotional highlight of the year. But this is also different in 2021. Marlies Janssens (Asterix) and Hendrik Tuerlinckx (Roeselare), two veterans of the event, regret the transition from a full Sportpaleis to an empty Lotto Arena. “Now they just have to follow us on television.”
Tuerlinckx: “Very large. I already know how much I will miss that audience, that hall and that atmosphere. The whole experience around it is a lot less than usual. You felt how a whole club, or rather a …
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