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The elite club: when the top athletes gathered for the competition in Hungary Israel today

2022-08-10T10:14:34.116Z


Sydney McLoughlin celebrated her birthday with the fastest time on European soil and Gianmarco Tambri was crowned the champion of the athletes • Shelley Ann Fraser shattered the stigmas about local racism and Iron Knighton was compared to Usain Bolt • Ronen Durfan with a report from the field


The current world champion is Sydney McLoughlin in the 400 hurdles.

Records and rivalries simply give up on her.

She wins the competition in Szczecin, Hungary, in a time of 51.68 seconds - the fastest ever on European soil.

another day at the office.

As of the end of writing things, the other lectures may have finished.

"But why is she so arrested?" complains a veteran American journalist.

"She doesn't say anything interesting!".

He is very unfair.

Mecloflin does not provide sensations but clear analyses.

When she and pole vault champion Armand Duplantis are asked at a press conference about the limits of their achievements, Duplantis replies that he just likes to jump and doesn't bother with numbers.

McLaughlin answers "We analyzed my record run from the World Championships. The hurdles and other matters. There are still problems. If I fix bronze from fifty seconds."

Not science fiction and not Rahab.

science!

The contest ends.

The winners are all on the winner's stand and McLaughlin is declared the winner of the competition trophy with the best quality result of all branches.

The hurricane season that stands is coming to an end.

Her teammates are moving on to Monaco and she is on her honeymoon with Carolina Panthers football player Andre LeVeron.

Then a cake arrives, the audience sings her happy birthday and the fans of the sensations get what they want: without a spoon or fork she sinks her teeth into the cake!

Sidney McLoughlin, photo: AFP

The champion of the athletes themselves is without competition Gianmarco Tambri.

When Eisa Mutaz Brashim and Tamberi stopped the high jump competition at the Tokyo Olympics on their own initiative, and divided the gold medal between them, there were of course the cynics who talked about the fact that they did not want to risk the bonuses of the victory.

This can only be said by those who do not know Tambri at all.

who won yesterday with an average result of 2.24 meters. 

Every athlete he comes across in the city of Sachsenferber receives him with a high five.

Every athlete blows him a kiss.

The audience is in love with him.

While many athletes are focused on competition.

He is photographed after each jump in selfies with those standing in the first rows.

Then suddenly a sprint is given to encourage an athlete in another sport.

why are you like that

"I had a little trouble entering the competition today. Also because of the conditions. So I draw encouragement from other athletes. It gives me enthusiasm."

Gianmarco Tambri, photo: AFP

That draw made his character great.

His inbox, physical and electronic, is filled every day with people from all over the world who thank him for the inspiration of the moment when friendship prevailed over everything.

But sport is also competition.

"In athletics we don't compete with each other. Everyone competes against themselves. To be the best they can be. When I see another athlete I just sympathize. If he tries to jump 2.40 or drop from 44 in the 400. It fills me up."

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Shelley Ann Fraser is the people's champion.

The day before in a conversation with young athletes, Mundo Duplantis was asked by a young pole vaulter about his gymnastics training.

He answers and then emphasizes "speed is the most underestimated thing in the rod. The results correspond one to one with the running speed".

Fraser next to him opens her eyes wide and says-asks in wonder SPEED!!!!

Then she goes on to interrogate the legendary jumper about pole vaulting matters.

Geniuses are curious.

Mundo Duplantis, photo: Reuters

So we have a new pole vaulter next year?

"There's no way. I can't even flick a flick."

She wins easily with the third best result in the world this year, all her own - 10.67 seconds.

Hungary's book region has a racist image.

It doesn't help that the prime minister, who was born in Saxony, recently gave a speech about the problem of racial mixing in Europe.

But Fraser creates other worlds.

Dozens of girls wait patiently for their turn and cry with happiness from a selfie with the champion.

At the opening event, one asks in a trembling voice what hair color she will run the next day.

Fraser apologizes - with the weather in Europe it's not practical to dye your hair for a regular competition.

In her own country she is almost the angel of Jamaican women.

The most consistent spokesperson for their well-being and well-being.

When, for example, a problem was observed in poor women who stopped breastfeeding because they thought their milk was spoiled - she immediately posed for an interview in which she explained that she had a similar problem.

This is how messages are conveyed there.

Every Jamaican journalist I have asked throughout your career has told me that you are more important to the country than Usain Bolt.

Because of your social activity.

Where will you take it after your career?

Fraser laughs for a moment and answers: "More than Usain? Never!".

But then Martsina: "I have an association. We take care of children in sports. In addition to the sports they play, we give them the conditions to be good at school. Let them understand that only the combination of the two will bring success."

When Fraser was a child and started running barefoot through the streets of Kingston, she sold fruit on the street to pay for dinner.

Shelley Ann Fraser.

National heroine, photo: AFP

Local champion

In the famous baseball movie "Field of Dreams" - Kevin Costner hears a mysterious voice telling him "If you build, people will come".

and builds a baseball field in the heart of the cornfields.

Shakespeare's athletics field was probably built with public funds, but it is an athletics field of dreams.

It is inside a camping complex.

One family tells me that they came from Romania and in the meantime they were fishing in the lake, as the less glamorous European summer vacation looks like.

They came to see with their own eyes Duplantis hovering.

They accepted with the understanding that he only won with 5.80 m.

Cool winds made the weather finally pleasant for humans but not for pole vaulters.

Yes, there really is a sporting event where you can see legendary champions camping.

Not a hotel-flight-ticket package for thousands of dollars.

And the athletes are in love with the competition.

"I prefer it every day of the week to 40,000 spectators in a big city. Here you won't be forgotten tomorrow," Marvin Bracey, who won the 100 meters in a time of 9.97 seconds, tells me.

But the most in love with the competition was Joe Kovacs.

He is the adopted champion of the Hungarians here;

' is part of a golden age that is currently happening in the iron ball.

In the World Championship, he lost by five centimeters to Ryan Cruiser in an American sweep.

Here he wins with 22.89 m - his result from the World Championship - and the crowd cheers him on throughout the competition.

Is it because your name is Hungarian?

"Yes. My grandfather is from here. But until today I have not competed here. Ten family members came especially from Sombathei on the Austrian border to cheer me on."

He takes out of a drawer a gift that his new fans have prepared for him: a shirt with the United States flag in the colors of Hungary.

They also brought gifts for his future twins.

Joe Kovacs.

The national hero, photo: AFP

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The event ends with the men's 200 run.

Iron Knighton, not yet 19 years old and compared to Ossian Bolt - he wins in 19.88 seconds.

I ask him about Blessing Afripa - they are the third and fourth person in history to run 200 in less than 20 seconds before the age of 20. He heard about the Israeli's victory in the World Championship in Colombia.

Why didn't he participate there?

"Because I didn't have time to participate in the tests."

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Source: israelhayom

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