Sports records struggle every day, standing there, to resist.
But if they last thirty years, and are linked to a golden age, they make even more noise when they fall.
The Italian one of 5,000 meters, beaten today by the 23-year-old blue of Ethiopian birth Yeman Crippa, belonged to Salvatore Antibo since 18 July 1990, a name that was the blue athletics of the golden years.
Sicilian from Altofonte, silver medal in the 10,000 in Seoul, Totò renamed 'the gazelle' enters the blue history with the double European gold (5 and 10 thousand) in Split, in '90, the same year of 13'05 ' '59 beaten tonight by Crippa.
A year later, at the Tokyo World Cup, one last place will reveal to the world his struggle with the disease that struck him as a child, epilepsy.
Tonight, his 30-year time has been improved by another blue champion with a difficult history.
Yemaneberhan ("the right hand of God", in his language), 23-year-old Ethiopian torn from his family by the civil war, arrived in Italy for the adoption of a Milanese couple, Roberto and Luisa Crippa, who went to pick him up in an orphanage of Addis Ababa.
In Tione, in Trentino, Yeman first tried football, then he chose the race, enlisting in the Fiamme oro sports group in 2014.
In Ostrava, in the Golden Spike, tonight he closed his race in third place but what counts is the time trial: 13'02''26, a new Italian record, which repeats the national record of 10,000 obtained at the world championships in Doha.
It is also the sign of a generational change.
The names of Pietro Mennea, Marcello Fiasconaro, Gennaro Di Napoli remain to defend respectively the performances of the 200 (dated '79), the 800 ('73: it is the most long-lived) or the 1,500 ('90).
But sooner or later, even for them someone will come from afar.
