. The impost’s syndrome grabs his neck and looks in his eyes. What does a humble boy born in Honduras 23 years ago? But then the camera focuses on him and changes his face while raising his hand and makes a three, one and another three: 313. The number of the High Performance Center of Sant Cugat, in Barcelona, who paid him the Catalan Federation and changed his life. Before that, still in Girona, he lived with his grandmother, Ruth Liliana, on a floor and did not give them to pay everything that an elite athlete needs. When he arrived in Barcelona, he weighed 58 kilos. Now, four years later, he is a healthy and corpulent young man of 66. And now, he also has the bronze medal of the world championship after performing a sensational career.
Channels was shaking all its complexes in each stride. He had legs, head and heart. It was his day. The Spanish let the favorites launch the race and clean it. And there that left, poisoned, the American Josh Hoey, the athlete who has become the second fastest man of all time, only behind the great Wilson Kipketer. The passage through 200m in 24.60 is excessive. His compatriot Brandon Miller, the second fastest this year, gets to the train and passes through 400m in 50.64. Channels, from behind, start reading the race. It is time to advance or the head group will go. It is time to move the pistons. , the city through which it was lost in a confusing adolescence, runs with very short steps, but very fast. He pistons.
In the absence of 400 meters, fourth is placed. The Uganda Tom Dradriga is out of the fight. The bell rings a return later and channels already look at Miller ahead, who pays the waste. He leaves behind the Belgian Eliott Crestan, a European runner -up in Apeldoorn two weeks ago, and listens behind the feet of the Dutch Samuel capple, the European champion in that race that ended with channels crying disconsolably in the shoulder of Jorge González Amo. That day was wounded but wiser. And from that defeat this medal came.
Chappel cannot with channels, which crosses the goal with the second best Spanish brand of all time (1m 45.03s), only behind its national record. Gone are the Dutch, Miller, Dradriga and, above all, the imposter. Spanish has earned to be in the world elite. And then grab the flag that his teammates throw him from the stands and shout and cry and he is happy. And remembers grandmother Ruth. Of the hard years in Girona. The street before the Institute. When there was not much at home. Until he found relief on an athletic track. And it was good. Short, deviably fast steps. He pistons.
Then came their early years in Girona with Josep Badosa, when the same ran 800m as the 400m. Later, the leap to Mataró with Andreu Novakowski. Then I still preferred to run through Honduras. A $ 500 scholarship – then rose to 1,000 – was sufficient reason for a poor kid who had not yet emerged. Until a year he felt mistreated by the Honduran Federation and claimed his right to compete as Spanish. But they didn’t give him the document. I needed to make more noise and did it on the track. At that time, in 2024, he already slept at 313 and trained with Carles Castillejo. He liked his group and there he wanted to be. In 30 days of summer 2024 ran twice in 1m45s and one, in Guadalajara, in 1m44s, where he crossed the finish line and shouted: “Where is the transfer?
Then winter arrived and now, in Nanjing’s spring, Josué Canales gets on the podium of a very excited World Cup. “I knew it was going to be a very fast career. I had been analyzing since yesterday. First I had to leave the emotions behind, even co -hibiting my joy, fighting my intrusive thoughts. I have three finals and I felt that I was not good. I perfectly out what he had in his head. ”
Ingebrigtsen, Como Gebrselassie
In the head of Mariano García, every day more comic on the track, there was also a great race. Therefore, as soon as you start the 1,500m final, it is placed behind the back of Jakob Ingebrigtsen. His plan had no failure. I just had to follow the Norwegian champion, accelerate with him and in the end, take advantage of his speed of Ochocentista. “But then he spends very easy, like rolling, and I passed, but I did not happen rolling … my strength were not so many, but he does have a lot of strength,” recognized the Murcia of Cuevas de Reyllo, laughing, at the end of the race in which the great Norwegian champion, this time the approach did not matter, razed again. He had no rival in Apeldoorn and has not had it in Nanjing. Accelerate relaxed and leaves. There is no more. Four gold medals in two weeks. . In addition, a world champion title at the kilometer and a half.
Mariano, who enters penultimate, already does not care and in full celebration of the Norwegian, who, with only 24 years, already adds 22 international titles – two of them Olympic and three other World Cups -, he placed himself next to him and asks him to do the motorcycle. Ingebrigttsen follows the roll and, in the end, as an award for sympathy, he even gives his dorsal. The Murcian leaves so happy after trying 1,500m, like Adrián Ben, Viveiro’s Galician, who was more calculating and finished sixth, in the finalist square.
Esther Guerrero did not give to calculate when he saw that Gudaf Tsegay, a 1,500m worldwide plusmarchist on a short track and 5,000m, shot at a pace that was nonsense. 30 seconds every lap. As if he wanted to renew his record in the distance. No one commits the recklessness of following her and the Catalan of Banyoles, scared, also intelligent, takes refuge in the tail. The Ethiopian ended up loosening, of course, but still gave him time to beat the championship brand (3M 54.86s). Guerrero tried to win a place at the expense of the Portuguese Salome Afonso, but finally ended ninth.
Four races in a row while the jumpers beat on the moat in a final grand with seven athletes above 8.10m and the medals in two centimeters: gold for the Italian Mattia Furlani (8.31m), silver for the Jamaican Wayne Pinnock (8.30m) and bronze for the Australian Liam Adcock (8.29m). As well as the valleists are separated by two hundredths in the triumph of Bahameña Devynne Charlton (7.72) on the Kambudji Switzerland (silver) and the Jamaican Nugent (bronze).
