• World Cups: An unsportsmanlike tactic defeats Orlando Ortega: "My medal has been stolen"
  • Complaints: Orlando already denounced the ugly maneuvers of Jamaican McLeod a month ago

It is accepted that the truth is one. The truth is the truth, say Agamemnon or his crap. But it is less admitted, if it is admitted, that justice may have, depending on what assumptions, several faces. But it is like this. The law is subject to the letter and the spirit. And the ultimate end of it, justice, can be, in the same situation, unfair to some to be fair to others.

It is evident that Orlando Ortega was unjustly penalized because he was the victim of an alien irregularity, for which he was not at all guilty and for which he had no responsibility. It is true that the invasion of his street by the "wild" Omar McLeod can be considered an unfortunate set, inherent in the competition itself. An unfortunate chance that can affect anyone at any time. In that order of thought, McLeod would be excused because he too was a victim. In sin he led penance. He did not finish the test and was disqualified .

Yes, but Ortega must not pay other people's sins . Unlike, for example, a cycling race in which a fall takes a few innocents ahead and does not cancel or repeat the test or stage, in the 100 hurdles each athlete is protected by his street. An untouchable, own space that individualizes and safeguards it, and must be defended in the offices if someone violates it on the track. That is called restorative justice.

This was not the case in this case because those responsible for applying it did not work with hypotheses, but with multiple profile facts. The claim would not have been raised without medals through. But what metal? Gold no, Grant Holloway was already too far and safe. But silver or bronze yes. But who insures it? What would have happened on the fence and the remaining meters? In that sense, it is not possible to think about the attribution of a medal (which one?), Even if it was shared (with whom?), Which the Spanish delegation justifiably requested.

Also, what was the fault of Shubenkov or Matinot-Lagarde? And much less Holloway, to whom no reissue of the race was assured of repeating an all-deserved gold and oblivious to other earthquakes. To him to be registered. On the other hand, that Holloway is American, with all the weight that this entails, did not contribute precisely to the prosperity of the Spanish appeal.

Ortega has been the victim of a blatant injustice. Or, said euphemistically, of a justice with several faces. He has had the ugliest.

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