The triple world champion (31) left the heptathlon after the jump. No new medal for the best Belgian athlete ever. “A black cloud followed me the entire game, I didn’t enjoy it at all,” it said with Thiam.
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The athlete ended up in a gigantic conflict with the Belgian athletics federation after her refusal to sign the code of conduct and the “punishment” imposed on her. She was refused in a training camp and her physiotherapist did not get accreditation for the Stadium in Tokyo.
Her mother Danielle Denisty is furious. “You see which state Nafi is in. She came up with the sole purpose of having fun (but look at the photo!),” She wrote in the caption with a photo on which Thiam pulls a dirty face. The circumstances in which the 3-time Olympic champion had to perform were therefore far from ideal. Due to a conflict with the athletics federation, Thiam could not optimally prepare itself.
Danielle Denisty also led to the Belgian athletics federation: “Nafi had no doubt not to take the best shape, but some know that they have put more than one stick in the wheels. For ten years, Nafi made the national anthem sound around the world, but that was clearly not enough and it did not guarantee her.”
“They want to bother her sponsors, put pressure on her with threats and blackmail, they want to withdraw her elite fair and leave her without work. They let her pay the journey and hotel of her physiotherapist with her own fair without warning her that they will prevent her from performing her tasks, they accuse her in the press of lies …” ”
According to her mother, Thiam has made the right choice even though that means that she does not bring in a new medal: “I am her mother. I do not need an extra medal. That is not important for me. When I registered my 7-year-old daughter at an athletics club, that was not to have her insulted or to have her been channeled, but if that would be the case, according to it. don’t feel like going on. ”
Nafi Thiam is lost. © ANP/HH
Denisty did with a clear call: “Nafi is an opportunity, an asset, but also an example. If her happiness can no longer be found on the athletics track, Nafi can certainly find it elsewhere, perhaps even without having to make so many sacrifices or having to take less sweat. Happiness brings her, whether it is still on the athletics track or somewhere else. “