Statistics and various writings give France the winner of three Olympic titles in the marathon test: in Paris 1900, Amsterdam 1928 and Melbourne 1956. And it is not true. Those texts hide the truth and, in the last two cases, a legalized and widespread immorality. The French capital hosts the Second Games. Emile Champion, a member of the Racing Club de France, is the favorite. Among his rivals, Michel Théato, from Luxembourg, a gardener at that institution. When both stand at the starting line, the one favored by the press looks at the proletarian emigrant with surprise and a certain disdain.
They start …! Champion heads the fight; takes a graceful step. Michel does not detach himself from the avant-garde. He approaches the one at the headquarters; Pass it, pass it …! And decisively it sets the pace. The 3,000 spectators welcomed by the Racing stadium see the club’s employee arrive first, while associate Emile must settle for second place, defeated 2 hours, 59 minutes and 45 seconds by 3 .4 .17. The third place goes to the Swede Ernst Fast for his 3. 37: 14. A fellow countryman of the vice-holder up fourth: Resse. Not a little sports literature places the winner in the French national team. Olympic statistics do not fall for that lie.
The City of Light again hosts the classic in 1924. The Finn Albin Stenroos is the best of the strenuous test with 2.41: 22. 6. Companions on the podium are Romeo Bertini, from Italy, and Clarence DeMar, from the United States, with 2.47 : 19.6 and 2. 48:14. Glance at the seventh-place occupant. Do not forget the name of the person who gets a decent step with 2. 54: 19. 6: The Ouafi. The unworthy thing is that he ran on behalf of the exploiting metropolis with blood and fire of his homeland: Boughéra or Mohamed El Ouafi is Algerian. The long-distance runner suffered humiliation from the moment he entered the complex. When he ran out of prize, it was worse. In order to reach the summit, he endured.
Juan Fauria in his book Las Olimpiadas, when dealing with the case of the sneaky athlete who will be titled in the IX Games, Amsterdam 1928., offers opinions as unfair as the sanctified violation: “The tough marathon test was won by a Frenchman, the Algerian The Ouafi, the most modest of French athletes, in whom no one believed. Placed in nineteenth place, he was passing opponents in the second part of the race; four men in front of him, and in a new attack, only the Chilean Plaza resists him; 600 meters from the finish line a new demarraje and space intervenes between the two and enters the highlighted stadium. 28 years before a Frenchman won that test; 28 years later another Frenchman will win again ”.
Time of the victor: 2. 32: 57. The Chilean Manuel Plaza (2. 33: .23) and the Finnish Martti Marttelinen (2.35: 02), their most difficult opponents. The Ouafi is the first Olympic champion of the Arab countries, and its first medalist of any color in the highest competition of the beautiful sport. More robbed of his nation, he represented the thieves who martyred it well beyond the agonal. By the way, El Ouafi ends up begging in the streets and is assassinated in a fight between beggars.
In the Dutch tournament, an Egyptian became the first recognized Arab Olympic starter, winning the highest award: in the lightweight category complete with 355 kilograms: Sayed Nosseir. There are other Egyptians awarded in the 1928 contest: the Greco-Roman wrestler Ibrahim Mustafá ascended to the most admired space of the podium among the light heavyweights days later than the mentioned strongman. Farid Simaika was second on the platform and third on the springboard.
THEFT IS REPEATED
Let’s see who is that “other French” winner. Emil Zátopek, from Czechoslovakia, wins in the 10 000 of London 1948; Algerian Alain Mimoun, who competes for the Gallic nation, makes some resistance and, in the end, is defeated at 29:59. 6 by 30: 47. 4. The XV Helsinki Games 1952 is the Zátopek Olympiad. Gold in 5,000, (14: 06. 6); 10,000, (29:17) and marathon: 2. 23:03 .2. Mimoun: runner-up in the first two battles with 14: 07.4 and 29: 32.8.
Melbourne 1956. Both Zátopek and Mimoun have been reserved for the great distance. With the Czechoslovakian, the experience; his opponent forays into the distance for the first time. On this occasion, happiness prefers the one who acts for France: gold with 2. 25; the European, sixth: 2. 29:34. A sad story related to the Olympic field and the marathon specialty has been repeated: Another star torn from the homeland that is announced, proclaimed, classified, as a son of imperialism that destroys it.
Many see these indecencies as something natural and legitimate. This atrocity damages the so-called Third World day after day.
Muscle stealing in major action; Today with the Olympic temple more than commercialized, banditized, it is a common fact in addition to being disgusting and not only in the field and the track, without leaving out the female branch. As José Martí expressed: To see a crime in calm is to commit it. Too many people calm in the face of this monstrosity!
Athletes who are sold or doped are more victims than victimizers: the great sinners are the ones who pay to increase this slip. To eliminate stains in sports, we must first save the planet from so much exploitation, from so much impurity, from so much evil. The day will come when Jesus gives us the whip to drive out the merchants. It must be used beyond this temple.
