Sirotti Laurens ten Dam Loes Gunnewijk, as national coach of the elite women, finally has a successor. And it’s a surprising, big name. Laurens Ten Dam will be the new coach for the women. He told us this in his podcast Live Slow Ride Fast. Ten Dam was already the coach of the women’s gravel team , but he gets extra responsibility.
The podcast opened with many strong stories and anecdotes, as we know Ten Dam, but then he dropped the big news. "The new national team coach is closer at hand than you think. I will, in fact, be the national coach of the elite women’s team. Of course, I wouldn’t have thought that a few months ago."
Read more below the photo . Ten Dam at the gravelselection bbq in early October Ten Dam was checked out during talk show De Avondetappe by Wilbert Broekhuizen
Ten Dam then explained how he became involved with the job. "I was sitting next to Wilbert Broekhuizen of the KNWU at the table at the Dutch talk show, De Avondetappe, during the past Tour de France. He is the technical director there, and I had already spoken to him about the national coaching position with the gravel group. He was also curious if it wasn’t something for me to take on the women’s elite."
At first, Ten Dam reacted with surprise: "I was very flattered, but what happened immediately was that everyone had an opinion about it around me. What did appeal […]
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