Miguel Ángel López leads the first festival of the Spanish march: a gold and a silver

Suddenly things stopped coming out.

A decade ago,

was the last of an eternal tradition.

Spain and the march.

,

,

,

, the outlawed

and López, the very young López.

In 2014, European champion;

in 2015, world champion and in 2016 the Games were held in Rio.

What was going to happen? An Olympic gold? Maybe two?

He dared to double in the 20 and 50 kilometers and failed: he was not even a finalist.

There something broke.

The results were blackened and Miguel Ángel López disappeared from the best, even from the elite.

Lack of confidence, injuries, everything.

He could have retired.

But he kept marching year after year, year after year, until this Tuesday.

This Tuesday she returned in a big way with a gold in the 35-kilometre march of the European Championships in Munich.

An indisputable gold, as great as his talent.

At the dawn of the test, at kilometer 5, he left the peloton and his rivals did not see him until the finish line.

In each meter the same rhythm, constant, constant, constant and thus his was the victory.

The Swedish

, double bronze in the recent World Cup in Eugene, was the only one who tried to follow him, but he ended up fainting.

The only thing left behind was for the German

, the Italian

and the Spanish

to fight for the podium with pity for Bermúdez, who finished fourth.

Despite this pain for Bermúdez, the festival of Spain in the 35 kilometers was full thanks to the silver of

in the female category.

A veteran like López, who was also present at the Rio 2016 Games, González had been fighting for finalist positions in World and European Championships all his life until the new distance appeared, these 35 kilometers, and he discovered that it was perfect for his characteristics.

Neither too long nor too short.

In the last Eugene World Cup she was already fifth and this Tuesday at the European Championships in Munich, her moment.

In the first moments she let the Hungarian

go , with a suicidal rhythm, and when she stopped - she finished third - the Spaniard found herself alone together with the Greek

.

The two discussed the gold and González kept the silver.

There was Spanish glory in the 50 kilometres, a distance now extinct, and there is and will be in the 35 kilometres.

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