• Athletics Hurdles once again set a world record and a 21-year-old Spaniard, Asier Martínez, in the 110 final

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Spanish athletics has a brave. Actually he has several, and young people, but one appears in a test of very high demand, the 800, to consolidate himself at 23 years old, completed in the race, the day of his end. The future

belongs

to

Adrián Ben,

who after being a finalist and sixth in a World Cup, in Doha in 2019, improves to a place in the Olympic Games, where the level is similar, but the pressure and the atmosphere have nothing to do with it.

This Galician from Viveiro faced the race with intelligence and without any complex. He is not only an excellent athlete. It is a pure competitor. He started behind to avoid skirmishes, dangerous in the middle ground, without obsession to catch the rope. They passed the first 400 in 53.76, at a slow pace, perhaps more than what was convenient for the Spanish, but this allowed him not to disconnect from the group, in a final very different from that of Doha, broken by a deadly pace.

In Tokyo he was always in the race, he came out on the outside and made progress with 200 to go. The effort he could pay for it, but he resisted in front of some of the candidates for the podium, whom he surpassed, and entered with the ambition to fight a fifth place as if was a medal. Timing (1: 45.96) is not important in an Olympic final. There will be time for that, for the records. The victory, with a Kenyan double, went to

Emmanuel Korir

(1: 45.06).

"What do I get a medal!"

He told him in the last straight, but the forces did not give him: "In the last 50 I saw that I could not take it anymore. I am left for that with a little discontent, but in the next Games we will see each other, although I do not know in what proof, "said Viveiro, who gave himself a fifth place on his birthday.

The 1,500, in which it started, could be your choice.

One more hope for the Spanish midfield, which has not returned to its past splendor.

Asier, in the final of 110 hurdles

The good impressions left by the Galician midfielder, the first Spaniard in an 800 Olympic final, were joined by others, such as the surprising finalist of the 110 hurdles,

Asier Martínez

, third in his series with 13.27. A time that rescued him to be among the eight best in the final that takes place at dawn on Thursday (04:55 in the Peninsula).

Orlando Ortega

, silver in Rio;

Javier Moracho

, seventh in Moscow 80, and

Carlos Sala

, in the same position in Los Angeles'84, are his predecessors. The difference is that the Navarrese is 21 years old.

Marta Pérez

, meanwhile, agreed to the final of 1,500, entering fifth in her semifinal and leaving her personal mark in 4: 01.69.

María Vicente

has only 20

, who won her series of 200 in the heptathlon, where she is in numbers to get Spain's record.

Your room for improvement is very important.

Jorge Ureña

won his 400 in the decathlon to finish the first day eighth.

They could not get among the first eight, those considered finalists and with access to a diploma,

Carolina Robles

, last in the final of 3,000 obstacles, and

Javier Cienfuegos

, tenth in hammer (76.30).

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