The afternoon spoils in Oregon: Mechaal falls at 5,000 and García and De Arriba, at 800

Disappointed, Adel Mechaal (31) says in the mixed zone:.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
21 July 2022 Thursday 22:54
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The afternoon spoils in Oregon: Mechaal falls at 5,000 and García and De Arriba, at 800

Disappointed, Adel Mechaal (31) says in the mixed zone:

-I had rested for this day, and in the first meters I felt good. And I have reached the last thousand in the lead. But then I felt that I had no oxygen and my legs weighed five kilos more each and in the absence of 800 I have already seen that I could not, could not and could not go more than a second faster. So from then on, what I have done has been to fight not to stop.

And already: he will not be in the final on Sunday (3:05 a.m., Spanish time).

Far away were the others, the talented Joshua Cheptegei and Selemon Barega, gold and silver in the 10,000, who fight again and sign 2m28s in the last kilometer (both finish in 13m24s) and open an abysmal margin of twelve seconds (Mechaal signs 13m36.48s and is eleventh, with no chance to go through times; Jakob Ingebrigtsen gains access in the second series).

And there ends the strange journey of this man, of Mechaal, a middle-distance runner who intended to double the test but had been seen outside the 1,500 because of the covid.

I have never been comfortable in Eugene. I have been sleeping very badly these days. And in the end, I paid for it. Let's see if I recover for the European -he says.

And he leaves sad, just as the two Spanish Eighteenth-century men, Mariano García and Álvaro de Arriba, also dismounted, appear shortly after.

-I have seen myself well positioned in the absence of a little lap, and it seemed to me that the rhythm was falling asleep and I have thrown myself forward, and I have collapsed and they have passed me like airplanes -says Mariano García, who finished sixth in the second series, in 1m46s70 .

-I found myself a bit stuck after the tough qualifying round the day before. I have entered in 1m46s30 (7th), which is not bad, but that is not enough to enter such an expensive final - De Arriba also apologizes.

Then he announces that he is starting to think about 1,500, at least for the next indoor court.

(three Kenyans and two Algerians will be in the final).

Manuel Quijera, 17th in javelin (78.61m), and Pablo Torrijos, 23rd in triple (16.32m, far from the improvement that was 17.05m), also closed their presence in Eugene this Thursday.