I read what happened to Yannick Agnel. The deterioration started after leaving his
coach and mentor in Nice, France, Fabrice Pellerin. I said what happened to, because to me as a
coach, a doctor and human being, it is a tragedy. It is the beginning of the deterioration that
should happen slowly with age and not because of a tragedy; that is why it is tragic. We die before we should when we are unable to tolerate or understand life. Yannie commented few months after leaving
Fabrice, when the anger of leaving was still present:
Agnel said he is learning all the time from the man who masterminded
Phelps’ record haul of eight gold medals at Beijing 2008 in a career which
reaped 18 Olympic titles.
“Bob’s a great technician and a great man, the partnership is giving
something special,” said Agnel.
“We have a very good team, good training sessions, a good coach, good
conditions and beside that we are really relaxed.
“I was with Conor (Dwyer) a month ago and we said we were going to be
first and second in Barcelona, and it finally happened.”
Having moved to Baltimore in June, Agnel said he is already enjoying the
difference of living in the United States having parted company with French
coach Fabrice Pellerin in May.
“It’s in the spirit, that way of thinking,” he replied when asked of the
main differences Stateside.
“In France, we are maybe too
serious, we were at least for many years and we started to be successful when
someone showed us the way and said you can win being cool.”
- See more at:
http://www.themalaymailonline.com/sports/article/agnel-reaps-rewards-of-phelps-mentor-at-worlds#sthash.TINloreM.dpuf
The “coolness” is what Yannie was looking for and that
is what the majority of young Frenchmen are looking for. It is worth taking a look at what is happening
in France to have an idea of what it is happening to Yannie. It is present in most
of the countries and only controlled by the law, e.g. Phelps was caught drunk
which would redirect him for a few months or years. The NFL players are redirected being caught
by domestic violence. There are people
looking at this matter closely:
Bad Anon September 16, 2014
Pellerin brought the best out of Agnel; thats a fact… I maybe wrong but
i feel Agnel wasnt getting the results he expected after the Baltimore
experiment… Parallels can be drawn from Laure Manaudou’s story on changing
coaches and eventually never regained her no.1 status. What’s most sad is
4months from Beijing Manaudou swam 2.06.64 200back a time that would have won a
medal by a handy margin and was on track to cementing a place in the record
books; Agnel now a shadow of his brilliant past will struggle to capture his old
form a new coach will be new adaptation curve; Coventry’s comeback with
“familiar” coaches @ swimmac tells a story of how coach-shopping and shifting
hardly brings desired results; her (Coventry’s) london campaign under Brackin
being her best perfomance post rome2009; In my humble opinion, Agnel will
reclaim his no.1 spot under Pellerin if they could out their differences
(wishful thinking)
I knock on Yannies’ intellectuals abilities to make me
understood. My great grand-father was
French and I live part of my life in the French Culture. We live in Sartre’s new tragedy but it is still
a tragedy in the common sense of the word: “We die before we should,” due to
lack of knowledge about life or dreaming that we are the “thing.”
Oreste, dans Les Mouches, est à la recherche de
son double idéalisé, incarnation de son possible :
ORESTE.- Tu me donneras la main et nous irons...
ELECTRE.- Où?
ORESTE.- Je ne sais pas ; vers nous-mêmes. De
l'autre côté des fleuves et des montagnes il y a un Oreste et une Electre qui
nous attendent. Il faudra les chercher patiemment.
Nothing is out there to save us. Hard work, knowledge and patience are needed
to reach out dreams if “we want it bad.”
We have had several triathletes that pursue Sartre’s tragedy and far
from accomplishing what Agnel did (Quetzalcóalt’s tragedy). What they listened to is like the sirens’ chants
for Ulises; we need to plug our ears to survive. Unfortunately, they want to listen to the siren’s
chants without being tight as Ulises asked for.
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