The Brits turned things on their heads the last few Olympics with their Olympic peak play. The Dutchies kind of righted the ship showing that you can be fast all the damn time, The Dutch are really showing up a whole lot of long held beliefs in what they are doing. They have something seriously great happening with both their talent pool and their training regime. They were fast on old early 2000's designed bikes, they are fast without a lot of the super aero bits and pieces, they are fast on gears that are (were) outrageous, they are consistently fast seeming bucking the ups and downs of traditional training peaks and troughs. They buck conventional thinking and well, fast is fast and the Dutch are FAST and consistently so. But the beauty about it is that they're not just out there in a league of their own. Almost everyone else is still nipping at their heels and it makes for a great spectacle IMO