- World Qatar's Heat Plan
- Speed. Lyles, a new focus to illuminate the desert
Athletics is not a religion, it does not need a god, but it needs someone whom the neighbor of the fifth recognizes and Usain Bolt continues from party to party until the body endures. Without it a decade later, today the Doha World Cup opens a new era. A period of transition that demands new idols and that should be short, because sport has enough with corruption and doping. Absent other figures such as David Rudisha, Mo Farah or Eliud Kipchoge , the championship invites several twenty-year-olds to stardom.
In speed, beyond the already suspicious Christian Coleman , the portentous Noah Lyles , a boy who rapps, paints and competes with Dragon Ball and Star Wars socks, threatens the 200-meter record of Bolt himself. Basically, the Jakob Ingebrigtsen phenomenon will prove its maturity before the African army in the 1,500 and 5,000 meters. And, among other things, in the contests, the jumpers Juan Miguel Echevarría and Yulimar Rojas who aspire to the impossible: overcome the world record of Mike Powell and Inessa Kravets in other times. Only they can make us forget where we are and at what temperature we sweat and rescue a World called disaster.
Because, what can the International Federation say to the first scare, the first fainting? Although there are no serious incidents, the championship will be remembered for exposing athletes to unnecessary risk. Beyond having to maintain the state of form until October, two months after the classic closing of the season, marchers and marathoners must overcome an unhealthy heat and the rest will avoid constipation, which is not little. Because although it may seem a lie, at the Khalifa Stadium, the modern venue that will also host the World Cup in three years, even when it's cold.
On the sides of the enclosure huge air-conditioned cannons lower the 35 degrees from outside to about 20 and, in addition to creating current in the jump aisles, they cause a very rare effect: in the warm-up area, outside the stadium, summer adjusts more crude, but autumn has arrived. If a survival exercise is announced on the asphalt tests, more than one surprise is expected in the interiors simply because the favorites may be cramped. Yes, seriously.
In fact, Spain is welcome to dream of a successful World Cup. Two years after leaving the World Cup for the first time in its history, the bad season of the sprinters, with Bruno Hortelano and Oscar Husillos at the head, returns a cheating pessimism. Actually, the team has more medal options than then. In the march there are up to five podium candidates - Álvaro Martín, Diego García, Miguel Ángel López and María Pérez in the 20 kilometers and Julia Takacs in the 50- and in the stadium have emerged referents.
After his catharsis at the Glasgow European indoor and his march to train Cyprus, Orlando Ortega is experiencing one of his best seasons and, in full maturity after his bronze at the Berlin European, Ana Peleteiro looks at one of the competitions of the most demanding triples ever. Both tests are the most open, and that is why no one should be surprised by the medal of one of them, even the two. In that area, that of surprises, three young promises would enter that, by several paths, have finished among the best in the world many years later than expected, closer to 30 than to 20: the obstacleist Fernando Carro , the hammer thrower Javier Cienfuegos and the long jumper Eusebio Cáceres.
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