NOS reporter Kees Jongkind has been named Sports Journalist of the Year 2020 by the Dutch Sports Press (NSP).
This is an oeuvre prize for Jongkind’s work for the program Other Times Sports and in particular – according to NSP – the NOS report Code Geel about the cycling team of Jumbo-Visma during the Tour de France.
Behind the scenes at Jumbo-Visma
Jongkind followed the Jumbo-Visma team with cameramen Tijs Kuijpers and Maurits Obbema during the last Tour de France, offering a unique look behind the scenes of one of the world’s greatest cycling teams.
The documentary shows as detailed as it is impressive the physical and mental struggle that Tom Dumoulin goes through in those days and how Primoz Roglic sees a certain Tour victory slip through on the penultimate day. The documentary also received high ratings abroad.
Jongkind has been employed by NOS Sport since 1990 and has been a reporter at many Olympic Games, European and World Cups football and Tour de France’s. Since 2003 he has also made longer sports reports, such as before Other Times Sports.
With his documentaries ‘Double Davis’ (about the American skater Shani Davis) and ‘Theft of urine samples from Van Gennip and Visser covered up’, he also won prizes in the past.
Furthermore, discus thrower Ria Stalman admitted to Jongkind in 2016 that she used doping when she won Olympic gold in 1984. And in 2018 he went back to Argentina with Arie Haan and Ernie Brandts, where it became clear on the spot that the presence of the Orange at the 1978 World Cup had been crucial for the Foolish Mothers.
Watch some special documentaries by Kees Jongkind in the video carousel below.