This picture says more than a thousand words! Maikel van der Vleuten gives his father Eric van der Vleuten a big hug after securing the individual bronze medal with Beauville Z. Maikel was also on the Dutch silver team at the Olympic Games in London in 2012, so the Tokyo bronze is his second Olympic medal. Endless hours of work from father and son is the backdrop of the van der Vleutens' well-deserved success. 

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