On the eve of the 23rd European Athletics Championships, our final Amsterdam Focus is on the brilliance of the Dutch superstar sprinter.
Being the face of a major championship is not easy. There is the pressure of delivering in front of your own fans, the constant glances of seeing your picture on huge posters across the city and the knowledge that many before you have won gold when they have been in this same position.
Except, if Dafne Schippers is weighed down with any extra burden just a day a before the European Athletics Championships start here in Amsterdam, it has not been showing.
'I will have a lot of family and friends supporting me,' she says. 'I am happy to be the face of the championships.'
The appearance of the defending 100m champion will bring such noise and excitement to the arena, as the venue stages its first major senior athletics championships since the Olympic Games in 1928.
It was actually here that the Netherlands celebrated their first female Olympic track and field medallist with Carolina 'Lien' Gisolf winning silver in the high jump all those years ago.
A historical moment in Dutch athletics which now has in Schippers, 24, a sprinter of such supreme power. With a background in the heptathlon - let's not forget she was the world bronze medallist in Moscow 2013 - Schippers has since developed into a sprinter who has not looked back.
Schippers actually ran in the 200m in Helsinki 2012, finishing fifth in the final, but the story of where she is now goes back to one afternoon in 2014 at the IAAF Diamond League in Glasgow when she broke national records in both the 100m (11.03) and 200m (22.34).
With the first of those, she overtook the mark of 11.08 which Nelli Cooman had set in 1986, it was just a few weeks before the European Athletics Championships and when asked about her plans there, Schippers replied: 'In Zurich, maybe sprinting, maybe heptathlon. I do not know. We will see.'
And how the sport did see...
At the Letzigrund Stadium, Schippers won the sprint double, taking the 100m in 11.12 and the 200m in a national record of 22.03.
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She was on her way, a journey which then last summer brought world glory in Beijing with a stunning medal double.
In the semi-finals of the 100m, she broke the national record with 10.83 and then took it down to 10.81 as she took silver, before winning 200m gold in a sensational 21.63 - a European record.
If the heptathlon had been her main route into major athletics - she was the world junior champion in 2010 and European junior champion in 2011 - it was not about the multi-events anymore.
It was about the explosive speed combined with the depths of strength needed to become such a force over such short distances, a combination that Schippers has mastered.
And now Amsterdam and a home championships await, with a golden girl at the height of her success.
But she will take it in her stride, there is no doubt of that, because the past few years have shown that Dafne Schippers was made for an occasion such as this one.
DAFNE SCHIPPERS AT THE EUROPEAN ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
Helsinki 2012
200m Final (30 June)
1. Mariya Ryemyen (UKR) 23.05
5. Dafne Schippers (NED) 23.53
4x100m relay (1 July)
1. Germany 42.51
2. Netherlands (Kadene Vassell, Dafne Schippers, Eva Lubbers, Jamile Samuel) 42.80
3. Poland 43.06
Zurich 2014
100m Final (13 August)
1. Dafne Schippers 11.12
2. Myriam Soumare (FRA) 11.16
3. Ashleigh Nelson (GBR) 11.22
200m Final (15 August)
1. Dafne Schippers 22.03
2. Jodie Williams (GBR) 22.46
3. Myriam Soumare (FRA) 22.58