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Mo Katir, records, poetry and 5,000m

2021-08-05T20:29:51.112Z


Mula's athlete starts as the favorite in his test on the magical track in Tokyo, in which he has run the fastest 1,500m in the history of the Olympic Games


"Part of my energy is spent writing verses, making an effort to bring home lunch and continue to struggle in this wicked world ...".

In Tokyo, Mo Katir rhymes verses to a rap beat, posts them on Instagram, and laughs.

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3m 32.19s.

Adel Mechaal runs and talks.

The two best Spanish runners will compete in a different final (the 5,000m, the Mula phenomenon, Friday, 2:00 pm; the 1,500m, the athlete from PalamĂłs, Saturday 1:40 pm), and both believe that they will be protagonists.

Katir because there has not been an athlete like him in the world this summer, capable of running, in a month, the 1,500m in less than 3m 30s, the 3.00m in less than 7m 30s and the 5,000m, his Olympic distance, in less than 13m.

Both of them, like all athletes, are driven crazy by a whirlwind that mixes speed, sneakers, technology, sticky and endless heat and a track that is a magic carpet of the Arabian Nights.

They are Games in which the oldest, or the most read, see traces of the excitement of the best brands that was experienced in the Mexico 68 Games.

And after his 1,500m semi-final, Mechaal talks about extraordinary marks and shows his New Balance and talks about the synthetic Mondo track. And he says that everyone has carbon shoes like hers, all brands, models that not only make you run more, but also make your muscles less tired. "And we can finish the last 400m of a 1,500m in 51s or 52s so calm because the fatigue is less," says Mechaal. And for example, his euphoria. Mechaal, 30, second Games, speaks five minutes after having participated in the 1,500 fastest in the history of the Olympic Games. A wild, tactical, hareless race with a slow start and sudden acceleration in the final 800m after the swift stride of 20-year-old Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen.

"I don't know what's on this track that everyone runs a lot," says JesĂșs GĂłmez, from Burgos, whose rhythm broke and was left off the hook.

“I have seen the race from a distance and it has been incredible.

I am happy with having run it ”.

The winner, Kenyan Abel Kipsang, runs in 3m 31.65s, one second faster than his best, and beats the Olympic record set by his compatriot Noah Ngeny (3m 32.07s) in the 2000 Sydney final in which he sank. in misery to El Guerruj.

The top seven fell from 3m 33s, a barrier of excellence, including a 29-year-old from Luxembourg invited by the quota that small countries have.

His name is Charles Grethen.

He arrived with a best mark of 3m 36.75s, and qualified for the final with 3m 32.86s ...

Also Mechaal, who finishes fourth and is classified by positions, achieves a PB (

personal best,

personal best) along with his time (3m 32.19s), which gives him the opportunity to talk about his passion for running, his desire to finish as a marathoner and Mo Katir.

"I'm not like Katir, I wish I was like him," says Mechaal, who was ahead of the Murcian in the last race in which they ran together, the 3,000m final of the European indoor championship, last March.

The current neighbor of European Istanbul, finished third, and blamed Katir's tactics, fourth, for failing to finish second.

“It took me eight years to lower my mark by four seconds,” adds Mechaal in Tokyo.

“I continue with my progression.

I am passionate about competing and I want this to last as long as possible, and for my mother, who is in the hospital to see me ”.

Olympic rookie Ignacio Fontes also qualified by places for the 1,500 final after finishing fifth (3m 34.49s) in the first semifinal.

Although he only runs the 5,000m, and he could have doubled with the 1,500m but it seemed excessive from the start, the poet long distance runner is, perhaps, due to the range of distances in which he is capable of winning the new Mo Farah of the Games, Mohamed as the Briton who achieved the double-double - victories in the 5,000m and 10,000m in the London and Rio Games -, and in the series he showed total dominance, an unheard of control for a 23-year-old athlete, debuting in about Games and that a year ago he was only a supporting actor even in Spanish athletics, with a best time eight seconds slower in 1,500m, 17s more in 3,000 and one minute in 5,000m. He masters all the terrain, distances and Katir rhythms so much, the collected hair, the uneven socks, the jumpsuit adjusted to his very stylized line, his long legs, his 1.90m, the lightness of his ankles,that even seems to be left over when he says that he does not care, but that in any case he would prefer a very fast race in which he could assert that he runs the 1,500m in 3m 28s, and that, in addition, they arrive more tired than him because they have also run the 10,000m all the most dangerous rivals: the Canadian Ahmed, the Ugandans Cheptegei (world record holder) and Kiplimo, the North Americans Kipcaid and Fisher ...

“Black hair in the wind, I have already fulfilled my dream of life”, announces Katir, a lover of solitude and the night, and finishes rapping: “I talk to myself in meditation, I take the time before making a decision, I risk my heart for what gives me satisfaction, and if I don't get on the bus it's because it's not going in the same direction ”.

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Source: elparis

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