“Once there was a small country with a top athlete. And see how it ends …” Triple Olympic champion and double world champion Nafi Thiam specified at the World Cup Athletics in Tokyo. Her coach Michael van der Plaetsen then destroyed to the Belgian athletics federation: “I am ashamed to be Belgian.” How could it ever get that far between our largest athlete and the union? A reconstruction.
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How it completely missed between Nafi Thiam and the Belgian Athletics Association: “Above all, this is a lack of communication”
Bytaketonews
Sep 20, 2025