French police introduced Tuesday that they have been trying to find a monitor and discipline athlete from the African nation of Benin, saying Odile Ahouanwanou had not been seen in per week.
The 33-year-old was final seen dropping off her little one on the residence of a carer on Sept. 10, police in Normandy, northern France, introduced in a submit on social media, including that she had not returned to gather her son.
Of their attraction for data on the “worrying disappearance”, the nationwide police stated Ahouanwanou was final identified to be touring in a Volkswagen Polo.
French Police
She completed eighth within the heptathlon on the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar. Earlier than committing to athletics, Ahouanwanou was an elite soccer participant who performed as a younger lady for Benin’s nationwide crew.
“I used to be additionally doing athletics in major and secondary faculty,” she informed BBC Sport Africa in 2022. “I might usually beat everybody however I simply could not see myself in athletics — it was all about soccer… Till in the future in 2007, I turned Benin nationwide champion within the excessive leap and the whole lot modified.”
In early September, Ugandan distance runner Rebecca Cheptegei died in Kenya after being set on hearth by her former boyfriend, weeks after competing on the 2024 Paris Summer time Olympics.
Her ex-boyfriend later died of his personal accidents sustained within the assault.Â
