On June 24, 1941, two days after the invasion of the Soviet Union by the German army, from the balcony of the General Secretariat of the Movement, Ramón Serrano Suñer , Minister of Foreign Affairs and brother-in-law of Francisco Franco , shouted: Russia is guilty! "It was, according to him, of our Civil War and all its deadly consequences.
Without any spirit of frivolizing on our part, athletics, through the mouth of the International Federation (IAAF), shouted again a few days ago from Doha itself: "Russia is guilty!". It is from state doping. So the old giant, punished since 2016, has continued to be banned. So, in this World Cup, the red, white and blue flag with the double-headed eagle does not fly. Nor will there be a chance to hear the national anthem, the beautiful score by Aleksandr Aleksándrov .
It could have been played by Sergey Shubenkov (110 meters hurdles), Anzhelika Sidorova (pole vault) and Mariya Lasitskene (high jump). The two women qualified yesterday for their respective finals. The pole pole, tomorrow, Sunday. The height one, Monday. Sidorova and 16 other athletes passed the qualification mark (4.60). In height, the mandatory 1.94 exceeded eight athletes, including Lasitskene herself. Four others were replaced with 1.92 to reach the minimum figure of 12 finalists. Lasitskene is the favorite. But it is not in its best form. In their last competition, the Europe-USA match, was third, after 17 consecutive victories.
Shubenkov, Sidorova and Lasitskene belong to the cast of 74 athletes considered to be clean of guilt, oblivious to the sins of the system, and to whom the IAAF has granted a safe-conduct to compete as independent under the acronym ANA ( Authorized Neutral Athletes ). In Doha landed 30 (13 men and 17 women) of such angels .
As you look, those 74 forced stateless persons are too few or too many. On the one hand, it does not seem realistic that, in the large Russian athletics, there are so many spotted members to pardon only that number. On the other, with a whole country suspended, it is rare that there are 74 unpolished names. In addition, innocent or not, it is incredible that they did not know what was happening in an area of which they were a substantial part. They were not blind and deaf, but mute. That could be called cover-up.
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