A world record floated, impalpable and restless, in the dense atmosphere of a crowded and optimistic pavilion. It was the triple female jump. The presence of Yulimar Rojas made him predict, since he did not assure. The high (1.92) and expressive Venezuelan, very motivated since the warm-up, touched it in the fourth attempt (15,29) and broke it in the sixth. His 15.43 sent to the loft the 15.36 that the Russian (suspicious) Tatiana Lebedeva had since 2004.

Yulimar sought the record from the beginning. He felt it within his body and in his mind. In his pursuit, he always risked a lot in the whisk and made a very fair and long null (three). Its imposing brand is a reality and also an advertisement. If something very similar to a personal and an environmental catastrophe does not occur, the absolute record will fall this summer. He belongs to the Ukrainian Inessa Kravets since August 1995, who made 15.50 at the Gothenburg World Cup.

Outdoors, Rojas jumped 15.41 last season. We are therefore faced with a record that we could consider imminent and unavoidable, if it were not because, in sport, you can never insure anything either for or against.

Technical progress

The Madrid Gallur pavilion is something very similar to a talisman for this girl born in Caracas on October 21, 1995. Under her roof she began her sports career in 2015. She lives in Guadalajara, is trained by Iván Pedroso and with her silver at the Games de Rio became the first Venezuelan to win an Olympic medal.

His technical progress has been rapid and remarkable. It used to be a skein of defects. Now to his privileged physicist, a gift of cradle, he has added acquired virtues. A star has not been born. It already existed. But it has grown to fill the sky.

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