Five minutes earlier, the best athletes on the planet, the Ethiopians Selemon Barega and Muktar Edris , the Kenyan Jacop Krop , the Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen , had finished their series of 5,000 meters elbows, at a dizzying pace.
Then Jonathan Busby appeared .
The rest of the athletes already attended the journalists in a mixed zone, some even entered the dressing room to take a shower, when the image of the Aruban Busby emerged on the track with his face disheveled, absolutely exhausted and dragged by the Guinean Braima Suncar Dabó who, at See him, he felt sorry for him. The public, scarce, mostly African residents in Qatar, went crazy. In an unusual scene, a normal man struggling with himself, an amateur athlete broken for competing with the gods, his last 1,000 meters became a survival exercise, moving forward almost without standing, under a continuation of applause between the comparison and mockery.
He finished as he could in 18 minutes and 10 minutes, a time that could imitate any 'runner' - although it was his best personal brand -, he stopped his watch and a volunteer from the organization took him in a wheelchair to the interiors of the stadium, possibly to the infirmary. For mixed zone it did not happen and, minutes later, the organization decided to disqualify it for receiving help during the test.
Only Google and a compatriot offered some information about him: he is the only Aruba athlete invited to the Doha World Cup, last year he won the half marathon of Curaçao in an amateur time (1h: 23) and last March he suffered a accident when training with his bicycle. From this Friday he will be remembered as the Eric Moussambani of athletics.
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