Nafi Thiam’s coach lashes out at athletics federation: “I am ashamed to be Belgian. You can’t prepare for a World Championship like this.”

by Mofaluna

6 comments

  1. Have we gotten any positive news about Belgian Athletics since the last Olympics? Feels like a lot of management should be fired with all of those athletes complaining.

  2. I can’t pretend i know all the details of what happened, and i’m sure there are some wrongs from each party, but… Nafi Thiam is one of the top Belgian athletes in our history, definitely the best one on the track. And she was let down by the federation because someone had an egotrip, and that cost her the chance of another medal. Fifty years from today, people will remember Nafi. Nobody will remember the head of the federation in five years. I don’t even know their name. Shame.

  3. Some political parties want the end of Belgium. Funding into sport and culture are getting ridiculous. The federation is surely to blame, but there is something larger at hand.

  4. Nafi is one of the greatest athletes of all time. Yeah she’s independent and doesn’t always play by the federations book, but that kind of mindset is why athletes at this level succeed. Look at how they clear the way for someone like Noah Lyles to just focus on performing. Instead of supporting Nafi in the same way, the federation decided to flex its ego and now we’ve lost our best shot at gold. Not discounting Isaac Kimeli tho, he was on fire yesterday!

  5. Let’s cancel sponsors for the federation and have everyone pay for themselves then.

  6. The entire federation management has to STEP down NOW !
    The incompetence, the shenanigans, the greed is absolutely unacceptable.

    We have had ONE worldclass athlete in a generation. That’s her. She’s a legend of the sport. And she has to deal with this bullshit !?? I’m beyond angry.

    Anyone defending what’s happened or trying to do the bothsideism can just go eat grass in a field.

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