Warholm, the white athlete who achieves a world record to the rhythm of Bolt

He burst his shirt with the same force with which he had burst the most agonistic race that exists, but also with the difficulty of the hurdles.

did more than just set a world record, second in the Tokyo tartan. He took the 400 hurdles into the future, to a place that only

had reached

, with records weighing over 100 and 200. This 25-year-old Norwegian took a bite of seven tenths, 76 hundredths specifically, to the own record with reaching the Games. Below 46 seconds (45.94), the future was before our eyes.

Warholm is also white, a relevant fact, because speed has long left no place for his race, testimonies in the great Olympic finals. His test, in fact, was dominated by black athletes in contemporary athletics, from

, who extended his reign for a decade, to

, who ended the former's unbeaten record. But also

,

and

, who broke Moses' record 19 years ago in Barcelona. Since then he had not moved until the Norwegian athlete improved him, a month before Tokyo, with a record of 46.70.

What survived for more than 20 years has fallen twice in two months as if the pyramids were suddenly moving. It is what this final in Tokyo means, probably the best one that we will see on the track during the Games. The Norwegian's race against time led the second,

, one of Moses' heirs, to also improve the previous record (46.17) and the Brazilian

to stay within two hundredths (46.72).

Warholm's first record was not comparable, as Young's 46.78 in Barcelona subtracted eight hundredths. Now the margin has been practically ten times higher. Benjamin, kneeling, could not understand that after having run like never before, perhaps like never again, the victory was not his. The American subtracted the disadvantage that the Norwegian had obtained when reaching 200. He progressed until he believed that they would be on par on arrival. So, Warholm did something unbecoming of one who suffers in extreme form, with an oxygen debt and a muscular fatigue as in few tests. He was able with another change of pace, without breaking his traction in the race, already unbearable for Benjamin and entered the future of speed in which Bolt abandoned us. The Jamaican had conditions for the 400, but never tried it in a big championship.So we are left wondering where it would have come from.

SECOND PLUS BRAND IN TOKYO

There has been a lot of talk about his absence in Tokyo, about the orphanhood of stars that this generated on the track.

This feat lessens it in part, thanks to the arrival in athletics of this prodigy born in the Norwegian population of Ulsteinvik, who was already world champion in London 2017 and Doha 2019. After Rio, he has been the best of the hurdles, fighting with Benjamin.

Together with that of

, in triple, it is already the second world record that does not resist in these Covid Games.

A sacrilege to achieve it in the dark, without the light that the public offers to the athletes.

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