The athleticism , confined, sleeping during the pandemic . But no, insomniacs, their ghosts. At least one. These days there is no talk of competitions, but of fraud. Doping. While Lamine Diack , former president of the International Federation , the IAAF (today World Athletics), is being tried for, among other tricks, concealing positives from Russian athletes, Salwa Eid Naser and Christian Coleman have been provisionally suspended . They were not located to carry out three controls in 12 months, the so-called "lack of whereabouts". What, according to the regulation, is equivalent to a positive.

Salwa Eid Naser and Christian Coleman. Almost nothing. A 22-year-old girl from Bahrain who, last year, in the Doha World Cup , ran the 400 meters in 48.14, the best mark of the last 34 years and the third in history after the more than suspicious Marita Koch (47.60 ) and Jarmila Kratocvhvilova (47.99). In turn, Christian Coleman (USA, 24 years old), world record holder of 60 meters (indoor track, of course) with 6.34, dominated in that same World Cup the 100 meters with 9.76, thus becoming the sixth "all time" man.

Naser and Coleman, two of the brightest, most attractive and necessary young stars in the athletic firmament, should have seen the World Cup from the sofa of their home for the same reason that now threatens to remove them from circulation (and from the Olympic Games) , for two years. Naser was authorized to participate because the pieces of the procedure had not yet been completed. Coleman was favored for 26 days by an error in dates . Both, victims of the cumulative absences before and after the event, now return to the misty starting box, casting pernicious doubts on their own records and, by suspicious extension, on those of the other athletes.

Every feat today is subjected to an indeterminate period of validity and credibility , waiting to be endorsed or denied in terms that are not always absolute or with necessarily retroactive effects. Are the honest and the cheats are or have they always been? ... Surely, in different degrees and numbers, there is still cleanliness in athletics and in any other sport. But, like dirt, you never know for sure where it is and how far it reaches. The normal thing, which would be cleanliness, blends in harmony with the environment and becomes indistinguishable. The abnormal, which would be the trap, is diverted into hiding and becomes undetectable.

We have reached a point where, within the common realm of the unknown, and within the complex medical labyrinth and the guaranteed legal framework of advanced societies and organizations, the virtuous and the sinful are found together and in turmoil. Both, unfairly, end up being presumed. Separating them to distinguish them remains one of the greatest challenges and obligations of world sport.

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