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The metaphor of cruelty is reflected in the

loss of a medal in the final stretch

, practically at the sprint, after

50 kilometers of suffering

. We will not see it again, because the longest test in official athletics is shortened at the

Games

. This last torture, however, was suffered by a Spaniard.

Marc Tur

suffered a pájara when he had mentally won the bronze. Then

his body didn't listen to him

. Could not. He marched on instinct, the image of the goal clouded with exhaustion, like a mirage. It was fourth.

The position is exceptional, and more so for an athlete who came to be nineteenth in the

Doha World Cup

, although a few months ago, in the Podebrady Marching European Cup (Czech Republic), where he already faced a good part of the elite , he won an unexpected gold, which also gave him the passport to

Tokyo

, in addition to his personal best mark (3: 47.70). Then he explained what was his way of facing the test, always from less to more. He did so in

Sapporo

. The development made it good, except for just over a hundred meters.

Tur, from Ibiza from Santa Eulalia,

hit himself in the face in those agonistic meters

as he had never suffered. He knows his body very well.

He is a doctor and has celiac disease

, which has led him to have to measure his diet a lot, and more so to subject his body to a superhuman effort. Over and over he hit his face. He was already marching alone, after having commanded the operations in the second part of the test, especially in the pursuit of Pole

Dawid Tomala

, who won the 50 km after a suicide attack culminated alone. He did it in 3: 50.08. It is the last Olympic gold of this test. It is history, a worthy gold.

Tur's rhythm, without breaking down at all, led to the

selection of the chasing group

, which lost units, from seven to six, five, four, three and, finally, two, the Spanish and the German Hilbert.

Then the Ibizan received one more notice, the second.

He was at risk of going to the pit lane, which meant being out of the race.

He spoke to the German, who left alone.

There was nothing to fear if he sustained his march for Tur, but the unexpected, the pájara, came when he was already feeling on the podium.

The Canadian

Dunfee

smelled the trace of the Spanish blood and went for the medal.

The podium blurred in his eyes.

It was already a mirage.

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