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  • Opinion: A great day

No Spanish in the final of this Sunday of the 1,500. Desolador, taking into account our tradition in the test. Adel Mechaal , our best man, fourth in the World Cup in London'2017, ran badly tactically, like other times. It was not located, it was meters more ... Kevin López's forces failed and, after climbing away from the 800, he still lacks adaptation to the 1,500. Jesús Gómez , a debutant, cannot be asked for more.

I lean towards a final at medium pace, tending to slow. A game of cunning, a fight of balances between the finalizers ( Taoufik Makhloufi, Marcin Lewandowski, Matthew Centrowitz ) and those capable of sustaining very high rhythms (Timothy Cheruiyot, Jakob Ingebrigtsen ). Of course, Makhloufi (Algeria) and Cheruiyot (Kenya) are capable of both. They are for me the top favorites, along with the fiercely competitive Polish Lewandowski. If I were Cheruiyot, it would harden the race. To win. Because any other medal has it secured, within which in sports there are no certainties.

After having run the series and semifinals, physical endurance, recovery power and reserved or wasted energy will play a fundamental role in the final fate of the event. There I see a weakness in Ingebrigtsen, which was also squeezed in the 5,000. I consider him more 1,500 than 5,000 broker, if only because, at his ambitious 19 years old, he needs to acquire more funds to aspire to such high levels. Despite his talent, his youth, in this case, does not benefit him.

Careers of this nature and at these levels are, however, open to surprises and, unfortunately, to mishaps. In that troubled river the British Josh Kerr and, above all, the other Kenyan, Ronald Kwemoi , could fish . I don't believe in a team race with him and Cheruiyot, because both, in their individuality, aspire to the fullest. No one is going to sacrifice for anyone.

The presence of three Britons, the aforementioned Kerr, Neil Gourley and Jake Wightman , is a welcome news for athletics. But I consider them comparsas. Luxury, but comparsas.

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