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Olympic Games: 50km walk, the last dance before the disappearance

2021-08-04T14:28:40.570Z


Integrated into the Olympic program in 1932 (with only one absence in 1976, in Montreal), the 50km walk is about to disappear from the program during the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024.


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Like disjointed puppets, the walkers apply themselves to twisting their bodies.

The ankles roll (one foot must always be in contact with the ground, under pain of penalty) and the hips play the seesaw.

Right, left… The metronome is diabolical, soporific, the mechanics grueling, heady.

The 50 km walk offers a funny odyssey, a journey out of time.

At the end of the effort.

Far from the track to the stars.

The 50 km walk shares neither the prestige nor the myth of the marathon and will live, this Thursday (10 p.m.), its last Olympic episode.

So decided by the IOC.

The exercise will be replaced by a mixed event during the Paris Olympics in 2024.

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Out of fashion, not falling into the format of broadcasters who impose their diktat on the organizers, the 50 km will fade.

And with it, a certain era, a certain idea of ​​effort.

The walkers make up the anonymous athletics peloton.

They defend the effort and the Olympism.

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Source: lefigaro

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