The Cheetahs coach, somewhat disowned by her hierarchy, is in deep questioning at the dawn of the new Olympiad. She doesn’t mince her words.
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Journalist at the Sports department
By Philippe Vande WeyerPublished on 9/11/2024 at 06:00
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Ct’s a very unusual period that Carole Bam is going through at the moment. At 46, the coach of the Belgian Cheetahs, who, remember, won their first international medal this summer by finishing 3es over 4 x 400 m at the Euro in Rome, is a bit at a crossroads. After seeing the two best Belgian athletes that she trained, Hanne Claes and Cynthia Bolingo, leave her, the first by retiring from sports, the second by deciding to leave to train in the United States, she saw the Dutchman arrive Bram Peters as head of the Belgian Tornados to succeed Jacques Borlée. A position now coupled with that, hitherto unpublished, of “head coach” of the 4 x 400 m relays, a new “architecture” imposed by the Flemish Athletics League (VAL)… with the blessing of the French-speaking League (LBFA). ), which in fact takes away part of its former prerogatives.
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