Numerous changes in the list of athletes under Adeps contract!

Thursday 21st November 2024 08:06 AM

“At the start of the new Olympiad, a record number of French-speaking athletes will have the privilege of having a contract and a status”rejoices Jacqueline Galant. “The results at the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games demonstrated that French-speaking sport and disabled sport are in excellent shape and I hope that we continue on this path.”

Athletics is on the rise, while waiting for the 4×100 and 4×400 m relays, both on the men’s and women’s side, where four “newbies” are still under discussion, in addition to John Heymans and Chloé Herbiet, who arrived during the year, which would then bring the number of athletes under contract to 18 (instead of 12).

Several career endings

At the end of an Olympic year, there are many changes due to career endings and 2024 is no exception. Charline Van Snick, Jaouad Achab, Valentine Dumont, Claire Michel, Luca Costa and Maxime Hordies (to name a few…) are leaving high-level sport and will logically no longer benefit from a contract.

Two sports, horse riding (2) and fencing (4), are being considered with, already, views on the Los Angeles Games in 2028. Closer, the Milan-Cortina Olympics in 2026, explain the retention of our best skier Armand Marchant while Maya Cloetens comes to strengthen our team of biathletes.

If team sports, basketball (4), hockey (10) and Rugby (5) are still well supported, judo (3), taekwondo (3) and triathlon (3) have lost some “feathers “, even if the (political) authorities have still been very lenient with some.

Here is the list of athletes under Adeps contract for the year 2025.

Athletics (14) +2

Cynthia Bolingo, Eliott Crestan, Chloé Herbiet, John Heymans, Florent Mabille, Koen Naert, Delphine Nkansa, Daniel Segers, Michael Somers, Nafi Thiam, Naomi Van den Broeck, Robin Vanderbemden, Elise Vanderelst, Julien Watrin.

Basket-ball (4) +2

Wivine Defosset, Sarah Dossou, Maxuella Lisowa, Bethy Salt.

Biathlon (3) +1

Florent Claude, Maya Cloetens, Lotte Lie.

Canoe-Kayak (1) =

Cycling (2) -1

Thibaut Bernard, Pierre De Froidmont (mountain bike).

Equitation (2) +2

Cyril Gavrilovic, Larissa Pauluis.

Escalade (1) -1

Fencing (4) +4

Stef De Greef, Oscar Geudvert, Mathieu Nijs, Stef Van Campenhout.

Gymnastics (1) =

Handisports (5) =

Maxime Carabin, Wim De Paepe, Michèle Georges, Joachim Gérard, Tatyana Lebrun.

Hockey (10) =

Vanessa Blockmans, Gauthier Boccard, Tom Boon, Lucie Breyne, William Ghislain, Nelson Onana, Justine Rasir, Vincent Vanasch, Maxime Van Oost, Tommy Willems.

Judo (3) -2

Sami Chouchi, Jorre Verstraeten, Gabriella Willems.

Ju-Jitsu (1) =

Karate (3) -1

Walid Deghali, Quentin Mahauden, Youness Oualad.

Fight (2) =

Ayub Musaev, Ibrahim Tabaev.

Motocyclism (1) =

Swimming (5) =

Sarah Dumont, Florine Gaspard, Lucas Henveaux, Alisée Pisane, Grace Palmer.

Rugby (5) =

Pauline Gernaey, Margaux Lalli, Margaux Stevins, Hanne Swiers, Noémie Van de Poele.