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A claimed 10-year UCI ban of a male coach for humiliation, intimidation and infantilization at a women's team doesn't check out against any verifiable UCI disciplinary record. The closest match on file is Marc Bracke, banned three years in 2021 for sexual harassment at Doltcini-Van Eyck — a real case, a different length, a different charge.
If a 10-year ban existed for those specific charges, it would be the longest and most explicit psychological-abuse sanction the UCI has issued against a coach at a women's team — worth reporting precisely, not loosely. Instead the only comparable precedent found is Bracke's three-year suspension, which was for sexual harassment, not the pattern described here. Numbers and charges don't get rounded up or merged. Until the UCI's own decision names the coach, the team, and the ten years, this stays unconfirmed.
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