Today, a Shanghai man found out that his colleague took a leave of absence to participate in the Winter Olympics and won the bronze medal, and it was posted on Weibo.According to @021Video reports, recently, an employee in Shanghai found that his colleague had taken leave to attend the Winter Olympics. The relevant person in charge of AkzoNobel’s China branch said that 25-year-old Armida De Waal, an employee of the Swedish company, took leave in early January to prepare for the Winter Olympics, and won the third place in curling mixed doubles.
She will be back to work the week of February 14. The company supports her very much in participating in the Winter Olympics, and Chinese colleagues are also very encouraged to see it.
Sweden’s Oscar Eriksson and Armida De Waal compete during the mixed doubles curling competition at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at the “Ice Cube” of the National Aquatics Center in Beijing, Feb. 8, 2020. bronze medal.
Armida de Waal, 25, is competing at the Olympics for the first time this year, having won the 2017 World Youth Curling Championships. She studied engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, graduating with a master’s degree in 2021.
According to public information, since 1972, AkzoNobel from the Netherlands has started the paint and coating business. AkzoNobel was formed in 1969 by the merger of Akzo and KZO (Koninkijke Zout-Organon), the two largest chemical companies in the Netherlands. The main businesses include: decorative paints, high-performance coatings, specialty chemicals, industrial chemicals, etc.
On May 13, 2020, AkzoNobel ranked 920th on the 2020 Forbes Global 2000 list.