A flood spoiled Athletissima, the Diamond League rally that turned 50 in Lausana (Switzerland). The old romantics recalled their beginnings, in 1977, when it was still held in Vidy, at Stade Pierre-de-Coubertain. That day, on July 8, it also rained, and Dwight Stones had to sweep the track to jump the height. The athletes sympathized with that premiere so unfortunate and decided to return a month later, on August 3, 1977, when it was already a success, with long lines on the highway that forced the organizers to print more tickets to house 11,000 people. , he demonstrated again that he is plethoric and that he will arrive at the Tokyo World Championship (from September 13 to 21) as one of the few Spaniards capable of fighting for a medal.
The Cantabrian of Torrelavega did not wrinkle underwater and signed his third race of the year in 1m 42s to enter only behind Josh Hoey, the winner, and Emmanuel Wanyonyi. This result leads you to the final of the Diamond League of Zurich (August 27 and 28).
Quique Llopis did not need to sweep the line where he ran the 110 meters fences, like Stones in 77, but that, under the downpour, he had such bad sensations that he understood that it was not the day to risk. The Valencian, from Bellreguard, chose to be conservative. . The American Cordell Tinch, on the other hand, assured that he loves this time and achieved victory and getting off the 13 seconds (12.98s).
The runner -up of Europe now returns to Barcelona. Gandia’s track, where he usually trains with Toni Puig, his coach, is under works and that is why they have concentrated at the High Performance Center (CAR) of Sant Cugat, where he will refine its tuning before Zurich and Tokyo. Destiny is no accident. There, Puig, a veteran coach who has been found, fulfilled 60, with a portent capable of getting out of the 13 seconds and fighting for the Olympic medals, has put his pupil in the hands of the Biomechanical experts of the CAR to correct some technical details.
The main work has focused on modifying the attack on the fence. There they intend to scratch a few hundredths away from Llopis’s whip to draw a parable that allows him to take a step above the faster fence and lose less speed. They have also put the magnifying glass in the first supports, at the departure of Tacos, where they have decided to shorten each stride to achieve a more progressive start.
Two other Spaniards ran in Lausana. Thierry Ndikumwenayo was twelfth in the 5,000my Daniela García, second in the 800m final B. The Mallorcan needed to run in less than two minutes to be selected, a brand that has touched several times but that was resisted once again in Lausana, where it made 2m 0.25s after tracing four positions in the final stretch. There are only four days left to get the minimums and Daniela García will not try again. She and her coach, Antonio Serrano, hope that the coach, Pepe Peiró, open her hand to include a midfielder who has proven to be in shape -he has come to run in 2m 0.05, five hundredths of the minimum. Yes it will be in Tokyo María Vicente, which finally, after the latest update of the ranking, has remained among the 24 best in the world in heptatlon.
The storm ruined the brands in practically all the tests. Keely Hodgkinson was not saved. The British athlete had a star reappearance last Saturday in Silesia after passing without competing since her triumph in the Olympic final of Paris and achieved victory with the best world brand of the year (1m 54,74s). His coaches, Trevor Painr and Jenny Meadows, are convinced that the English has at their fingertips the antiquid record of the world of 800 meters (1m 53,28s), for 42 years. His idea is to try after the World Cup, in a meeting in New York in which they intend to convince Femke Bol, the current world champion of the 400m fences, so that it is his hare in the first 500 meters.
Athletissima closed with a 100m race in which the American Noah Lyles suffered his third defeat of the year, this time against Jamaican Oblique Seville, who made a great brand (9.87s) under the downpour.
