The giganticism of São Paulo allows, while trivializing; Provides, but eclipsa. Think about the street race tests. There are hundreds, almost every weekend of the year. There are tests passing through avenues, bridges, high, stadiums, universities, malls, historic building staircase; with dog; In the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening.
But to say that the paulistano will cheer, support, that he embraces them, as the Panglossians would say, is to force the bar too much.
There has been some popular involvement in centenary are wild, especially when it happened at a more festive time at night, and when athletics legends like Emil Zatopek, the human locomotive, were more frequent here. Few things, however, are more distant from the daily life of the resident of São Paulo than their two marathons.
The one that happens this Sunday (27), On SP City, grew up through the merits of the company that created it, whose owner couple is trying to improve the race, and also much for the inappetence by evolution of the decana marathon organizer, which until the day before yesterday organized São Silvestre.
Just City Harm introduced the two starters, an excellent idea to alleviate a historical problem, the output congestion caused by slower runners. The news this year is the suppression of an anticlimax street of about 500 meters at the entrance of Jockey, which should make the arrival more apotheotic.
The already old choice of the Jockey Club for dispersion is a plus-a reader was bothered by the “plus the most” of a previous text-which allows a more prolonged “postwarks” for sponsors and permissions.
All of this improves the “experience” of the corridor, but continues without moving the inhabitant of the city. Bad for organizers and sponsors, who dream of full integration with the environment, with New York, or, go there, like the river, whose marathon occupies an extended holiday.
At the time of Mayor João Doria, the brief, a Ufanist epithet was created, to the feature of the Self-Propocuous Management Administration: “São Paulo, the world capital of the race.”
More and more people run, they don’t necessarily participate in evidence, which is well, it is great, but involvement with the city, as if São Paulo breathed running, this is another story. I do not see São Paulo to “breathe” none of his great events, World Cup, Formula 1, LGBT Parade, March with God. If something was breathed, it was back, MMDC, Anarchosindicalism, Basil’s goal and Senna’s funeral procession.
Perhaps Carnival today approaches this, but the tomb of samba is always lurking: what to say the anticipation of the samba school parade, now in the fat Tuesday, during the carnival, therefore, as if it was necessary to the Paulistanos that there are very rigid and aseptic limits for the spree?
I don’t complain about the apathy of the city. I am minimalist. I have as a model the Charles River marathon in Boston, which is organized by a staff of about five people, dispenses with a speaker to dump platitudes into the tiger and begins and ends practically without leaving traces.
And even in this proof, I speak from experience, there seems to be more people to support than to run. But the support is strange, the fans shout all the time “Work!, Work!”.
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