Coumba Baradji

Coumba Baradji is a contestant from , , , and .
==Profile==
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*22 ans
*Région parisienne
*Serveuse
*1m72 - 58 kg
*C'est une femme avec un physique d'athlète, discours sans fioriture, elle peut faire preuve de générosité de coeur.
|-|Le Choc des Héros=
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Coumba, la boule d'énergie de 2005 - Koh-Lanta 5 - Eliminée le 31ème jour.Gazelle dans les épreuves, agile et rapide, elle aurait pu tout gagner si sa gentillesse naturelle ne l'empêchait de vaincre ses amis. Coumba "En 2005, c'est vrai que j'étais conne quoi. J'ai préféré l'humain au gain." Véritable mère-poule pour sa tribu, elle veillait au bien de tous, ce qu'elle fait aussi chez elle...
|-|La Revanche des Héros=
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*Koh-Lanta 5 - Ile des Pins - Nouvelle Calédonie (2005)Nombre de jours: 30/40Koh-Lanta Le Choc des Héros - Poum - Nouvelle Calédonie (2010)Nombre de jours: 19/20La "gazelle" ressasse encore sa défaite à l'orientation du Choc des Héros en 2010. Pour sa troisième participation, Coumba souhaite une nouvelle fois materner sa tribu mais elle ne fera pas de cadeau.
*Quels souvenirs gardez-vous de votre première participation à Koh-Lanta? Je garde de très bons souvenirs de cette aventure. J'ai fait de belles rencontres. Des personnes que je n'aurais peut-être jamais rencontrées en dehors du jeu. Nous avons partagé beaucoup ensemble, ce qui a été très enrichissant sur le plan humain.
*Quel a été votre plus grand regret lors de cette aventure? Et votre plus grande fierté? J'ai fait tout ce que j'ai pu pour aller le plus loin possible. Je n'ai pas de regret. Ma vraie fierté est celle d'avoir déjà participé plusieurs fois à Koh-Lanta!
*Pourquoi avoir choisi de revenir en découdre dans cette Revanche des Héros? La Revanche des Héros, c'est ma troisième participation à cette incroyable aventure... Et cette fois-ci, je compte bien aller au bout, remporter le titre d'ultime survivant et les 100.000 euros. Cela m'aiderait à concrétiser mes projets et je vais me battre pour y arriver.
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==Koh-Lanta==
===Pacifique===
A member of the Kumo tribe, Coumba bonded well with Mohamed Derradji. When Mohamed captured a goat, Caroline Colusso, who entered the tribe on Day 5 as Aude Réant's replacement, was the only person on her tribe to not want to kill and eat the goat. When the goat was being examined by locals because production was suspicious that it was pregnant, which would force the Kumo tribe to renounce it in that case, Mohamed got angry and aggressively told everybody that he does not want anybody to approach the goat. Noticing that Mohamed had a machete in his hand as he said this, Coumba discreetly snatched it away from him. To the delight of Caroline and the dismay of everybody else on the tribe, they had to renounce the goat because it was pregnant.
When the Kumo tribe won the fourth Reward Challenge on Day 11, which was a 24-hour challenge that the tribes had started the day before and which consisted of tribe members accomplishing certain tasks for points, they were rewarded with the right to permanently kidnap one of the members of the Kanawa tribe as part of a tribe switch. The Kumo tribe chose Jérôme Villaseque, who was the assumed leader of the Kanawa tribe, and he was deemed immune at the next Tribal Council in order to give him a better chance at integrating into his new tribe. When the Kumo tribe lost the fourth Immunity Challenge, Mohamed, who was the assumed leader of the Kumo tribe before Jérôme joined their numbers, was in danger of elimination due to the leadership clash between him and Jérôme. However, most of the tribe decided to prioritize strength and Marie-Cécile Maréchal was eliminated because her earache was making her a liability because she couldn't participate in a number of challenges because they involved water.
After Mohamed won the first individual Immunity Challenge after the tribes merged, Coumba, along with most of her tribemates, was interviewed individually by Ambassadors Alexis Tournier and Pierre Vaney. At the Ambassadors' Meeting, Alexis and Pierre agreed that Sakhone Holaphong was the only person that they interviewed who didn't seem to have the passion to stay in the game. Pierre insisted on naming Sakhone as the Ambassadors' vote, but Alexis did not initially agree to this because he did not want to leave the original Kumo tribe members vulnerable to a pagonging in case Jérôme were to flip back to his old allies. Alexis conceded on writing Sakhone's name, however, because he knew that if the Ambassadors could not come to a consensus, he would have a fifty-fifty chance of being the Ambassadors' vote himself. When Alexis explained to his fellow original Kumo tribe members why he conceded, Coumba disagreed with his decision. She claimed that if she were in his position, she would have been willing to risk having her name drawn in the deadlock scenario and being subsequently eliminated in order for the possibility of Pierre's name being drawn instead and leaving his allies open to a pagonging. Regardless, most of the tribe agreed with the Ambassadors about Sakhone's lack of passion and he was eliminated almost unanimously at the merged tribe's first Tribal Council. In spite of the general unity behind the first merge elimination, the original Kumo tribe members were vexed at Jérôme because he made it very apparent that he was going to work with his fellow original Kanawa tribe members throughout the merge, such as when he put back on the red shirt that he wore during his time on the Kanawa tribe. When the original Kumo tribe members realized that they could flip Francis Bordas over to their side, they approached him with the possibility of him joining them in voting out Jérôme. In spite of burying the hatchet with the other original Kanawa tribe members a few cycles prior, Francis ultimately flipped on them and Jérôme was voted out.
However, since Jérôme's reinstatement into his original alliance at the beginning of the merge, Coumba had lost the will to win the game and informed her tribemates that if she were voted out, she wouldn't mind. However, for the time being, she continued to vote with her allies because she knew that they needed her as a number. Further supporting her newfound attitude, she forfeited some of the individual challenges, which earned her the ire of some of her tribemates. At the Final Seven, when the original Kumo tribe members realized that they now had a clear majority over the original Kanawa tribe members, Francis and Clémence Castel joined Véronique Lobjoie and Pierre in voting out Coumba, who, on top of everything else, had injured her leg in the prior Reward Challenge.
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===Le Choc des Héros===
Coumba entered the competition as one of the returning players, so she was assigned to the Tiac tribe. They immediately competed in the first Reward Challenge and lost it against the Malabou tribe, which consisted of renowned French athletes. In spite of this loss, which resulted in them missing out on a niaouli roof reward to use as part of their shelter, the Tiac tribe was confident that they would be able to construct a shelter superior to that of their rivals based on their past experience on Koh-Lanta. The next day, Christina Chevry became stressed and expressed a desire to quit the competition. Christina's tribemates succeeded in calming her down, especially Linda Alario, who consoled her and motivated her to keep fighting for her team in a one-on-one conversation. The Tiac tribe narrowly won the first Immunity Challenge and, on top of this, they succeeded in starting a fire that evening. The next morning, the Tiac tribe feasted on periwinkles and sea urchins to the point where they were full and could not eat anymore, which is a state not often experienced by castaways on the show.
Coumba became close to Christina throughout the tribal phase of the game, but they both deduced that they were at the bottom of the Tiac tribe's pecking order and would be in danger should the tribe lose an Immunity Challenge. To her frustration, Coumba had to sit out of four consecutive challenges, with the exception of the construction of the raft for the third Reward Challenge, as a result of drawing the black rock for the tribe's women on all those occasions. Right before the second Reward Challenge, Hot Pursuit, both tribes received a new member: Mohamed Derradji was assigned to the Tiac tribe and Taïg Khris was assigned to the Malabou tribe. Mohamed was received well by his new tribemates, especially by an estactic Coumba, who was his closest ally in Pacifique. The Tiac tribe lost this challenge. The next day, the Tiac tribe narrowly won the second Immunity Challenge, earning them safety from Tribal Council again. The Tiac tribe won the third Reward Challenge, but they were clearly divided by the end of the day with Linda, Freddy Boucher, and Grégoire Delachaux in one alliance, Coumba, Christina, and Mohamed in another, and Christophe Guttatoro-Martin seeming to be a potential swing vote for the two alliances. Coumba and Mohamed made separate attempts to recruit Christophe into their alliance with Mohamed suggesting to him that they take out Freddy, but Christophe responded that he would think about it. Christophe also told Mohamed that taking out Freddy would be a bad idea and that he should be careful not to rebel too much, reminding Mohamed of his own mistake in dealing with Bertrand Bolle in Caramoan. That night, the Tiac tribe gathered around in order for Mohamed to express his feelings about not being their leader, which was a role that Mohamed wanted to take on but couldn't as he did not have enough social capital to do so since he was the newest member of the tribe. Eventually, the tribe's conversation turned into a conflict with some tribe members angrily expressing their issues with other tribe members. After losing the third Immunity Challenge the next day, Coumba's alliance planned to target Linda for her conflicts with Christina instead of targeting Freddy while Freddy's alliance planned to target Mohamed for being the perceived catalyst of the tribe's disarray instead of targeting Christina, who had felt like quitting earlier in the competition. At Tribal Council, Christophe sided with Freddy's alliance, resulting in Mohamed's elimination.
The Tiac tribe lost the fourth Reward Challenge against the Malabou tribe by a landslide. After the challenge, Denis Brogniart surprised the castaways by informing them that they would be merging that day and that both tribes would need to quickly select their respective Ambassadors to compete in a duel. He also informed them that a failure for the Ambassadors to reach a consensus on who to eliminate would result in the loser of the duel being eliminated instead. This was unlike the previous two seasons in which a failure for the Ambassadors to reach a consensus on who to eliminate would result in the two having to opt for a rock draw to determine who between them would be eliminated instead. The Malabou tribe selected Taïg to be their Ambassador and the Tiac tribe selected Christina to be theirs. Christina won the duel against Taïg, which granted her immunity at the merged tribe's first Tribal Council, immunity from being eliminated as an Ambassador, and, in turn, power over Taïg to ensure that a Malabou tribe member is eliminated by the Ambassadors and not a Tiac tribe member. Taïg revealed to Christina that, after being selected to be his tribe's Ambassador, he was approached by Djamel Bouras, Frédérique Jossinet, and Myriam Lamare and the four agreed that he should offer Gwendal's name should he lose the duel. Therefore, Christina and Taïg agreed upon Gwendal and he was eliminated from the game. After Christina and Taïg returned to camp and broke the news, the original Malabou tribe members explained to Gwendal that they had made this pact because they felt that he was the least deserving among them to continue forward through the game due to his arrogance during the tribal phase of the game. With the individual phase of the game beginning, the original Malabou tribe members made plans to vote based on who they thought was the least sportive of the tribe. However, the original Tiac tribe members made plans to pagong the original Malabou tribe members, though Coumba temporarily considered flipping to the other side due to being at the bottom of her alliance along with Christina. Their first target was to be Frédérique, who they feared would be good at the Perch challenge should she make it that far into the competition. Upon realizing that they were going to be pagonged, the original Malabou tribe members expressed their frustrations and changed their plans, opting to vote together against Freddy, who was considered one of the leaders of the original Tiac tribe members. Meanwhile, the original Tiac tribe members changed their plans as well, choosing to target Djamel because they realized that he would be a physical threat in the short-term and that he needed to eat more than the rest of the tribe. Thus, at Tribal Council, Djamel was voted out in a 6-4 vote.
Upon returning from Tribal Council, Christina was temporarily evacuated from the game due to her emotional stress taking a toll on her body. The next day, Frédérique and Myriam generally avoided tasks around camp and tried to relax in order to get themselves ready for the next two challenges, the second of which being crucial for their survival in the game. Linda and Christophe were critical of this, stating that they looked like they were on holiday. Later, when Grégoire began to relax somewhat himself, Myriam told him that he should go fishing. This comment was taken poorly by most of the original Tiac tribe members, who felt that she was talking to him as if he hasn't been active around camp. Though Grégoire did go fishing soon after, the tensions throughout the day developed a rift beyond strategic reasons between the original Malabou tribe members and the original Tiac tribe members. Christina returned to camp the next morning and received a warm reception from her tribemates. Soon after, Taïg pricked his hand with the spiny dorsal fin of a fish he caught which turned out to be venomous. With his hands being temporarily paralyzed and his feeling as if there were ants crawling all over his body, Taïg was quickly treated by a medic who remedied the situation but also deemed Taïg unfit to compete in the second individual Immunity Challenge. In consequence, Taïg was immune from receiving any votes at the corresponding Tribal Council, but also could not cast a vote either. After Frédérique won the second individual Immunity Challenge, Denis Brogniart revealed to the merged tribe that Tribal Council would be taking place right there and then. With Myriam being the only original Malabou tribe member eligible for elimination, Christina believed that her fellow original Tiac tribe members would be voting against her. However, Christina was blindsided by her allies in a 5-2-1 vote because they were concerned for her health. Throughout the next cycle, tensions between the two alliances were alleviated and there was more harmony around camp. This did not change the plans of the original Tiac tribe members though who resumed their pagonging of the original Malabou tribe members. When Freddy and Myriam won the second individual Reward Challenge, the latter tried to convince the former to consider voting based on merit instead of voting strategically. Freddy seemed to agree with Myriam on this, however, he ultimately stuck to his alliance's plan. When Myriam won the third individual Immunity Challenge, Frédérique was voted out at the corresponding Tribal Council.
Upset from realizing that they were still being pagonged, the remaining original Malabou tribe members slept together on the beach away from the original Tiac tribe members, who were sleeping in the shelter. The next night, the merged tribe had to experience heavy rain that continued into the following morning, which affected their morale going into the fourth individual Immunity Challenge. While Grégoire and Christophe went fishing, Myriam became closer to Coumba and had the same discussion about valuing merit over strategy with her as she did with Freddy. After Myriam won the fourth individual Immunity Challenge, which marked her fourth individual challenge win this season, Denis Brogniart revealed to the merged tribe that Tribal Council would be taking place right there and then like two cycles prior. Taïg was left as the only original Malabou tribe member eligible for elimination, so he was voted out by the original Tiac tribe members. The next day, the tribe had to send two people to collect letters from home from the summit of a nearby small mountain. Linda and Christophe went to retrieve the letters and each tribe member had received one. Linda won the fourth individual Reward Challenge, which was for a phone call to a loved one and a night at a hotel. Denis Brogniart informed Linda that she could forfeit her reward to give all of her tribemates a night at the hotel instead and give one of them the phone call. Linda chose to forfeit her reward for her tribemates and gave the phone call to Christophe. While at the hotel, Myriam seized an opportunity to talk to Coumba and Christophe about voting based on merit instead of based on strategy. Meanwhile, back at camp, Linda had a rough night alone as she tried to balance both sleeping and tending to the fire. The following afternoon, the contestants competed in their last individual Immunity Challenge before the finale, which Grégoire won. At the corresponding Tribal Council, Myriam was voted out unanimously as the last original Malabou tribe member standing.
Having made it to the finale, Coumba was eliminated at the Final Five after losing the Orienteering challenge along with Linda. Linda finished in fifth place while Coumba finished in fourth place because the latter had made more progress in the challenge than the former before they were forced to stop.
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 At the final five, the remaining castaways competed in an elimination challenge. Coumba failed to earn one of the three spots and was eliminated.
===La Revanche des Héros===
A member of the Nekmao tribe, Coumba maintained an alliance with Claude Dartois, Patrick Merle, and Teheiura Teahui that survived the tribal phase of the game fully intact. Though the original Nekmao tribe members entered the merge with a numbers disadvantage against the original Klahan tribe members, they were able to convince outsider Maud Garnier, who was bitter about Patricia Morel's elimination, to flip to their side. With the tables now turned, the original Nekmao tribe members and Maud blindsided Francis Bordas at the merged tribe's first Tribal Council and continued to pagong the original Klahan tribe members over the next two cycles. At the Final Eight, this pagonging was put on hold as Coumba and Patrick conspired with Bertrand Bolle, Moussa Niangane, and, to a lesser extent, Claude to blindside Teheiura because they feared his endgame potential. Coumba made it to the finale where, as in Le Choc des Héros, she was eliminated at the Final Five after losing the Orienteering challenge along with Patrick. Patrick finished in fifth place while Coumba finished in fourth place because, after the challenge, Denis Brogniart dismissed the former from the challenge area before the latter.
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 At the final five, the remaining castaways competed in an elimination challenge. Coumba failed to earn one of the three spots and was eliminated.
===La Légende===
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==Post-Koh-Lanta==
==Trivia==
* In , Coumba and Freddy Boucher became the first Koh-Lanta castaways to compete on three seasons.
* Coumba is the youngest member of Nekmao.
* Coumba is one of only two women to have competed on four Koh-Lanta seasons, along with Clémence Castel.
==References==
Category:Contestants
Category:Female Contestants
Category:Contestants Appearing in Multiple Seasons
Category:Pacifique Contestants
Category:Le Choc des Héros Contestants
Category:La Revanche des Héros Contestants
Category:La Légende Contestants
Category:Pacifique Jury Members
Category:Le Choc des Héros Jury Members
Category:La Revanche des Héros Jury Members
Category:Kumo Tribe
Category:Merged Tribe (Pacifique)
Category:Tiac Tribe
Category:Merged Tribe (Le Choc des Héros)
Category:Nekmao Tribe
Category:Merged Tribe (La Revanche des Héros)
Category:7th Place
Category:4th Place
Category:Koh-Lanta
Category:Koh-Lanta Contestants
Category:Koh-Lanta: Pacifique
Category:Koh-Lanta: Le Choc des Héros
Category:Koh-Lanta: La Revanche des Héros
Category:Koh-Lanta: La Légende