Quique Llopis has been in the center of, far from his house for three weeks, in Bellreguard, next to Gandia (Valencia). There the days go slowly without many more incentives than training, eating and sleeping. In the spare time, the console and a couple of books. In his hands he has fallen Atomic habitsJames Clear’s essay that has been sold more than four million copies and that, for months, are reading it, one behind the other, the best Spanish athletes. The Valencian hopes to find another way to polish the small details, tiny, which already separate him from the best world specialists of the 110 meters fences, the test in which he has already been runner -up in Europe and fourth in an Olympic final.
This Thursday, in the legendary Letzigrund stadium, in Zurich (Switzerland), uninhibited, already without any complex, it is placed in the output tacos with the worst mark of the eight finalists of the and 13,12s later crosses the goal in second position, only behind the American Cordell Tich (12,92s), the man who has already dropped four times of 13 seconds this season. Llopis pista on the table just over two weeks of the Tokyo World Championship.
“This race, in which they were all all, has been very good to show that I can fight to be in the World Cup final and, once there, fight for everything,” Llopis explains, always calm, after the race in which he has signed the best Spanish brand of the year, which leaves him, always on the rise, among the 15 best in the world. The Valencian, accompanied in Zurich, in the rally that began in 1925 with a career of Paavo Nurmi, the great Finista Fondista, before 3,000 spectators, by Toni Puig, his coach, will return to Barcelona now, then spend a couple of days at his home and on September 4 he will travel to Tokyo.
“I am very focused,” explains Llopis, who is very satisfied with Zurich, but aware that he has a much better brand on his legs. “We are still to run for something else, below the national record (the 13.04s of Orlando Ortega, the only Spanish who had climbed to the Diamond League podium: champion in 2019). This has been a good race, although the beginning has not been the best and then I have seen my Strides a little more than it touches, but we are on the right track. ” Toni Puig pretends to attack the fences further to take a more satin and lose less speed there.
The Diamond League final first welcomed four Spaniards. The Burgos Dani Arce a test in which Africans seem to have taken a step back. In Zurich they lost to the German Frederik Ruppert, just as in Brussels they yielded to the Luxemburgos Ryuben loan. Palencia Marta García finished sixth at 3,000m (8m 42.63s) in a slow race in which the last round ran in 62s. And Moha Attaoui, who stuck in the last meters, was sixth in the 800m (1m 43,35s).
