A undo, at dawn and with alevosía (this Sunday, no reader will read this chronicle in the paper version of The avant -garde), Spanish athletics continues in its deep restructuring.
Everything that was previously athletic march, background and midfond today are competitions, and especially jumps.
If Ana Peleteiro’s triples, multimedallista always, have raised her at the top of this sport, Fatima Diame (28) follows her closely: even when she does not usually appear on the favorites lists, she multiplies. In this early morning, closed night in our country, cold morning in Nankín’s cube, Diame has projected up to 6.72m in the Saltos hall and has reissued itself.
It has been world bronze in the room, as in 2024 (Glasgow).
And from there it is convenient to review its history, because it has depth.
Contemplating your networks is a sociological exercise. The presence that today projects on Instagram, with 614,000 followers, is the result of a meticulous exercise. The images have been selected and cared for, designed to overcome past controversies. As in the case of Peleteiro, Diame enters significant amounts in sponsorships and advertising wedges. Win more here than for athletics.
However, athletics gives him the prestige with which he dreams since it was a breeding in Valencia and appeared in the block of Rafael Blanquer, the first Spanish to overcome the barrier of eight meters in length (1970) and that, in other times, led Niurka Montalvo, Concha Montaner and Glory Alozie to the top.
“I tried everything, the 60m, the fences, the length, also the triple … -he Fatima Diame continued in past interviews. But above all, I wanted to be like Niurka or like shell.
Niurka Montalvo and Concha Montaner are multipremied length jumpers (Montalvo won the gold in the World Cup in Seville’99 and still retains the Spanish record, with 7.06m), and there that it went Diame, the talent that Blanquer would be polishing in the channel of Turia and that Iván Pedroso has perfected, now from Guadalajara.
Diame’s adventure in Guadalajara also deserves a point and apart.
We know that Pedroso is the great guru of the horizontal jumps. Nine world titles contemplate him as a athlete, and another range of titles now contemplates him as a technician. Before or after, every jumper toile has decided to pass through Guadalajara.
I mean Yulimar Rojas, the Venezuelan who a few years ago sent an email to the Guru to ask for his turn. Or to Ana Peleteiro, on her day of Diame’s room (it is also in Nankín), now back to her Galicia with Benjamin Compaoré, her husband. Or Nelson Évora, Alexis Copello and the current Jordan Díaz and Lester Lescay.
Fatima Diame, from Senegalese father and Portuguese mother, reached Guadalajara in 2021, after the pandemic: if there are the greatest, there I should be, it seemed to say.
Pedroso perfected it: he squeezed his ability to beat with both legs, virtue that comes from origin (he is ambide, like Dembélé) and that, in this winter, has taken him out of trouble.
It turns out that it dragged a problem in the right heel, a bone edema.
And that for that reason, Pedroso had proposed to change his whipped leg: for a while, he would take impulse with the left. As it was a test, it had to be perfected. The first exercises came out regulators. In the Spanish Championship in the Sala, a month ago, he stayed in some disconcerting 6.27.
In the European of Apeldoorn, fifteen days ago, it was something else. He already left up to 6.73m, although that flight did not allow him to catch the podium. He left her fifth.
The absence of rivals (neither Tara Davis nor Jasmine Moore nor Malaika Mihambo nor Larisa Iapichino, daughter of the great May Fiona, have appeared in Nankín) awarded him the doors of the corridor of the cube, and also her perseverance and the wisdom of Pedroso, the coach who made a virtue problem.
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