Die tartanbaan by die Bolandpark-stadion in Worcester is in so \u2019n patetiese toestand dat dit onmoontlik vir atlete is om te gebruik. Die baan in sy huidige vorm hou boonop \u2019n veiligheidsrisiko vir atlete in.<\/p>\n
\u2019n Paar atletiek-reuse van Worcester het die afgelope week behoorlik gal gebraak oor onder meer die toestand van die baan, die gebrek aan doeltreffende toegangsbeheer tot die stadion en ander veiligheidskwessies.<\/p>\n
Hulle het ook hul ontevredenheid namens die atletiekfamilie uitgespreek oor \u2019n voorval op 30 Oktober, toe tydens die bekendstelling van die Veiliger Feestyd-veldtog \u201caggressief\u201d op die tartanbaan by Bolandpark-stadion bestuur is. <\/p>\n
Chris Visagie, \u2019n ho\u00ebrskool-onderwyser en atletiek-afrigter, s\u00ea hul grootste bekommernis destyds met die oprigting van die tartanbaan was dat daar nie werklik kontrole gehou word met betrekking tot wie daar mag oefen en hoe die baan onderhou word nie. <\/p>\n
\u201cDie baan het oor die jare verweer. Dit moes al ten minste twee keer opgeknap gewees het. Niemandsien na die baan om nie. Almal kom oefen net daar. Daar is mos bepaalde re\u00ebls in terme van wat op die baan gedoen en nie gedoen mag word nie,\u201d s\u00ea Visagie. <\/p>\n
\u201cDaai baan is so pap, as die son hard skyn, steek jou spykers daarin vas. Die atleet kan dan val en hom- of haarself beseer,\u201d s\u00ea nog \u2019n atletiek-afrigter, Emile Koopman.<\/p>\n
\u201c \u2019n Atleet het al geval nadat sy spikes<\/span> in die baan vasgesteek het. Ek hou my ho\u00ebrskool-atlete weg van daardie baan.<\/p>\n \u201cOns wil so graag die baan gebruik en ons wil h\u00ea dat die re\u00ebls wat by UWK en Stellenbosch geld, ook by Bolandpark moet geld. Ons het sulke goeie stapatlete, maar hulle kry swaar op daai baan \u2013 alles omdat daar nie beheer is nie.<\/p>\n \u201cDit is beter om op \u2019n grasbaan te oefen, maar dis nie ideaal nie, want die kinders moet surface training<\/span><\/span> ook doen.\u201d<\/p>\n Volgens Koopman moes hy Bradley Olifant van De Doorns, \u2019n 100 m- en 200 m-atleet, op \u2019n 60 m-tartanstrook by Worcester Gimnasium vir die W\u00eareldkampioenskap voorberei. <\/p>\n \u201cDit was moeilik, maar ek kon hom nie Bolandpark toe neem en die risiko loop dat hy \u2019n besering opdoen nie,\u201d s\u00ea Koopman. <\/p>\n \u201cAs hierdie baan weer in \u2019n ordentlike toestand is, dan kan ons soos voorheen weer provinsiale en nasionale atletiekbyeenkomste hier aanbied,\u201d s\u00ea Visagie.<\/p>\n \u201cNoord-Bolandse ho\u00ebrskole hou glad nie meer atletiekbyeenkomste op Bolandpark nie. Daai baan moet eerder toegemaak word.\u201d<\/p>\n Hy s\u00ea die grootste probleem in Worcester is dat daar nie \u2019n sportbeheerraad is nie. Volgens hom moet elke munisipaliteit ingevolge wetgewing \u2019n sportbeheerraad h\u00ea. Hy meen daar is begrotings vir sportbeheerrade. <\/p>\n \u201cDit sou soveel beter gewees en soveel beter gewerk het as ons \u2019n sportbeheerraad hier gehad het wat dan tweemaandeliks of kwartaalliks vergaderings hou waar ons di\u00e9 soort kwessies kon bespreek.\u201d<\/p>\n Koopman s\u00ea stukkende glasstukke l\u00ea gedurig op die veld.<\/p>\n \u201cMy laerskoolkinders oefen kaalvoet, maar voordat hulle begin oefen, moet ek eers al die glasstukke optel. <\/p>\n \u201cAs ek \u2019n afrigter is wat sy sout werd is, gaan ek nie my kinders aan \u2019n septiese omgewing blootstel nie. Ek sal my kinders nie by die toilette inlaat nie, want safe guarding<\/span> is my verantwoordelikheid.\u201d<\/p>\n Volgens Visagie kan atletiek weer in die dorp floreer en kan verhoudings weer tussen onder meer atlete gebou word \u2013 \u201cmaar ons het nie \u2019n plek waar ons hulle ordentlik kan afrig nie\u201d. <\/p>\n Visagie s\u00ea top-atlete kom Worcester toe om te kom oefen, maar die dorp se baan kan hulle nie akkommodeer nie.<\/p>\n \u201cHier is alles, behalwe \u2019n baan.\u201d<\/p>\n Charles Beukes, voormalige Atletiek SA bestuurslid en Boland-president, s\u00ea dis werklik diep teleurstellend om die verweer van die sintetiese atletiekbaan op Bolandpark oor die jare te moet aanskou te midde van verto\u00eb dat die raad ingryp.<\/p>\n Hy s\u00ea die betrokke atletiekbaan was die heel eerste in die Boland en was die resultaat van handevat tussen die destydse Worcester-munisipaliteit, die streekdiensteraad en Atletiek SA. <\/p>\n \u201cDis [die baan] ingewy op 16 Maart 1994, maar instandhouding en gebrekkige bestuur van di\u00e9 duur fasiliteit oor 30 jaar, ten spyte van herhaalde verto\u00eb en waarskuwings van die atletiek-familie, het ons by di\u00e9 skandaligheid gebring. <\/p>\n \u201cIronies het Worcester in die Olimpiese jaar twee Olimpiese atlete opgelewer (drie saam met Wenda Theron in 2016) wat hul buiging op di\u00e9 baan gemaak het en waar ander w\u00eareld-presteerders soos Tom Petranoff, Hezekiel Sepeng, Marcel Winckler, Tshakile Nzimamde, Johan Landsma, O Neil Simpson, Graeme Schafers hul merk gelaat het,om nie te praat van die Droommyl-byeenkomste nie,\u201d s\u00ea Beukes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Die tartanbaan by die Bolandpark-stadion in Worcester is in so \u2019n patetiese toestand dat dit onmoontlik vir atlete is om te gebruik. 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