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Doping does not work miracles, although traps that, in their results, resemble them. Doping does not turn a turtle into a hare. But it is proven that some turtles get to lose the shell and their legs grow, especially the backs, or wings come out. In the 80s, they gave us from China turtle blood for hare meat.

This World Cup that was born crooked began with the extended veto to Russia, where they have been giving us from the Cretaceous Tartar turtle for a Siberian hare. And although this chronicler no longer puts the scorched hand in the fire by anyone, the white Russians, already carry two gold medals by Anzhelika Sidorova (pole) and Mariya Lasitskene (height) and this Wednesday a silver one ( Sergey Shubenkov , 110 meters hurdles). And on Friday, in the men's high jump, they could fish more. Mikhail Akimenko and Ilya Ivanyuk are favorites. Not bad for a group of wandering stateless persons.

The World Cup started without Russia. But alas! With Kenya. A few days before the opening, the German chain ZDF issued a documentary according to which at least eight of the members of the Kenyan team that would go to Doha had used EPO with the complicity of the Federation and the country's Anti-Doping Agency. Within the presumption of innocence, and such and such, why is it that we tend to believe more in German public television than in Kenyan sports authorities?

With the World Cup underway, the US Agency, the USADA, announced the four-year suspension of Alberto Salazar , one of those gurus among scientists and mystics who turn their group of athletes into a cult. Suspectly habitual, he has two golds in Doha: Donavan Brazier (800 meters) and Sifan Hassan (10,000). And there are more aspirants to precious and noble metals.

The existence of doping, the discovery and, in a percentage impossible to quantify, the hidden relativizes any past, present and future feat. It leads us to doubt the more or less gradual or sudden process in the hatching of so many athletes. We do not know where the two meanings of the word "incredible" coincide: the literary hyperbolic and the grammatically accurate. Nor at what point do the natural and the artificial come together so that men and women move from genetically gifted to pharmacological superhumans.

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