Mo Farah's triumphant return: breaks the hour record in Brussels

Two days after his street exhibition in Lausanne,

returned

, this time in Brussels and in an (empty) stadium, to the Diamond League.

Each of his performances threatens the pole vault world record that he holds (6.18).

With no noteworthy rivals and possibilities, he went to the first 5.50;

the 5.70 and the 5.80.

He was already alone.

He asked for six meters.

He also beat them on the first try.

Then he dared with the 6.15, which meant the best world outdoor record (

jumped, in altitude, 6.14 in 1994).

It clearly failed.

He looked tired and probably not entirely motivated because he had no opponents and the stands were bare.

If even so he is capable of exceeding six meters, a routine height for him, it is that his quality overcomes any circumstance.

In the current ones, with the whole sport upset by the pandemic, Brussels organized a rally with few stars and a profusion of European athletes, many of them Belgians.

One of those stars was

, entered in a 1,500 mounted for him, only for him and nothing more than for him.

The passage times, driven by the corresponding "hares", were fast: 53.56 the 400;

1: 51.14, the 800. The record would be good.

It was, but not exceptional: 3: 30.69.

finished second (3: 34.64).

And

, sixth (3: 38.38).

A cold race, without real tension and with zero uncertainty.

The meeting had planned to undermine two world records, the men's and the women's, of an unusual test and almost always practiced on asphalt: the time.

Both were achieved.

, on his return to the track after three years, and at 37 years of age, ran 21,330 meters and left behind the primacy of

(21,285), dating from 2007. The human reference endorses the chronometric in a test whose infrequency tends to relativize numbers.

And, for his part,

, another of those prodigies in medium, long and very long distances, covered 18,930 meters.

Also goal accomplished

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