Eugene. American Fred Curley became the 12th world champion in the 100 meters, since Carl Lewis returned home with his first World Cup gold in Helsinki in 1983.
Of the winners, half were suspended for doping.
fifty percent.
Hence the twelfth didn’t have enough time to join the gang yet.
Favorite Fred Curley won the World Cup Final tonight at 9.86, and I guess there weren’t many who sat at their home in Sweden to see who won the tournament’s finest offshoot on the men’s side – and could now call themselves the fastest man in the world.
Not as before.
But it’s also the branch that has been sunk by the biggest and biggest doping scandals of all time.
I don’t know how many runners I’ve heard over the years, who have mentioned how pure they are and that it would never have occurred to them to trick themselves to success.
The next moment they leave.
Four years, two years and three months – the punishment scale has been used in full over the years.
How many cheaters were there this time?
Nobody knows yet and I hope the answer is no.
But when history says something quite different, it is something that all gentlemen have to live with in the present.
They become almost mandatory wonders after every tournament final.
And those who were not caught had to live with their questioning and suspicion.
Even a phenomenon like Usain Bolt.
No, so much had been destroyed over the years that the final hundred meters no longer had the status it had before.
Like when Carl Lewis and Ben Johnson were born one of the biggest sports competitions in the late ’80s.
All categories.
Both at the World Cup in Rome in 1987 and at the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988.
These were huge sporting events followed by an entire world.
Bued out after the end
Ben Johnson won both times, but it was Carl Lewis who got two gold medals around his neck in the end.
And after Ben Johnson was revealed with the anabolic steroid Stanozolol in his body after the Olympic final in Seoul, nothing was the same again.
There, he lost a lot of credibility to the branch that never recovered.
Usain Bolt temporarily sparked interest during his years as the king of the world’s sprint sprint, but it was more because of his own charisma and great times.
And that most people – myself included – actually thought it was clean.
It was a pure sport we had to see for what’s so unusual at this stretch.
There was no competitor during his heyday from the 2008 Beijing Olympics to the Rio Olympics eight years later.
When Justin Gatlin, who had previously been convicted of doping, returned to winning World Cup gold in London 2017, it was business as usual again.
When he crossed the finish line, the crowd booed. This was Usain Bolt’s last race, but he was persuaded to take one last race and he wasn’t really trained to win.
In Doha, young Christian Coleman came home with the 2019 World Cup gold medal, but he has yet to announce three doping controls a few months later.
He ended up with an eighteen-month suspension and missed the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
And who appeared there?
Well, Italian sprinter Marcel Jacobs that almost no one had heard of before the Olympics.
He came home with the Olympic gold medal after lowering his personal record to 9.94 in the trials, 9.84 in the semifinals, and 9.80 in the final.
I had to live with history
Prior to the postponed Olympic year 2021, he was no less than ten years old and subsequent talk was mostly about doping. Although Jacobs never commented, most people saw no other plausible explanation.
And the Italian had to answer most of the accusations after that, rather than celebrate his dramatic victory.
Here in Eugene, Coleman was unlucky in sixth and Jacobs hit a shot in the last minute, as he has done before nearly every race this season.
The new enemy king is named Fred Curley, who led an American triple victory to the cheers of the mighty crowd.
Curley who appears to be a serious guy and was a 400m runner until last year, when he chose to go shorter distances.
Is he a pure and worthy master?
I hope that.
But unfortunately, he was forced to live with history like everyone else.
After all the Swedish successes on day one in qualifying and trials, it was a second black day for the Swedes.
Fanny Ross and Axelina Johansson are eleven and twelve in the women’s ball final and medalist Thobias Muntler jumped just eleven in the long final.
This time he had no margins against him. He was not so lucky in an amazing show. Not at all what I’m used to from his side.
And Hanna Hermansson had no chance in the 1500m semi-final, despite her second best timing ever.
It is not wrong to describe this as Kajsa Bergqvist’s first failure as captain.
Fortunately there is a lot left.
