Champions. Not Olympic

Two epic battles in the "high -rise" sectors brought gold to Russian athletes with neutral status, but not the fact that they will be allowed to competition in Tokyo

There are still things when you forget about the previous and future negativity, when there is only “here and now”, as it was two in a row in the main stadium of the capital of Qatar, which takes the most strange world athletics championship in history, at which Russian athletes again perform in neutral - without a flag - status. The heat in combination with humidity, despite the air conditioning, bring the runners to fainting ...

In female jumps with a pole after leaving the sector of Elena Isinbaeva, there is no one pronounced leader. Neither Jennifer Shur, who was still competing with Isinbaeva, nor her compatriot Sandy Morris, or even the champion of the 2016 Olympiad, Greek, Ekaterina Stepanidi, was pulled this role. This season, the Russian woman Angelica Sidorova, who has been included in the elite group, burst into the number of applicants, but never got to the title at the world level.

Today there was her chance, but Sandy Morris could say the same. These two provided the main intrigue with the final round: at first, Morris, followed by the next height, and even spectacularly, caught up with Sidorov. This continued exactly to the 4.95 Angelica who had not conquered after Angelica (and Sandy once flew by five meters).

Sandy Morris flooded all three attempts with a smile. The not smiling Sidorova went the same, but at the last moment she nevertheless took a record for herself. Morris applauded her. This was the apotheosis of the struggle of stiff, but beautiful and noble.

The prima of the height of Maria Lasitzkene, by her own admission, was as close as possible from the public and rivals. The recent unexpected defeat at the match of Europe and the USA in Minsk, and the Queen who got neutral status, and a hopeless struggle against Russian sports officials, and sentence to a mandatory victory, could not help but. And what else did you expect from a phenomenal jump, behind which there were 45 won starts in a row, including two world championships?

Lasitzkene looked surprisingly calm, as if she were not jumping in the final of the World Cup, but came to the start of the next stage of the "Diamond League". If you look only at the protocol, then her victory looks absolutely unconditional - six impeccable jumps, including the super -Gross -broster height of 204 cm. But this is if you do not see the entire course of the struggle, and the voltage hanging over the sector, which stopped at a mark of the constant rival of Lasitskene, Ukrainian Yulia Levchenko and American Vasti Cunningham. And if you do not pay attention to the fact that the victorious for Lasitzkene is height, though from the third attempt, the 18-year-old Ukrainian Yaroslav Mighty also took sensationally.

For Yaroslav, the second personal record took the remainder of moral forces.

If the Ukrainian did not refuse to continue the struggle, Lasitzkene, being in good shape, could well conquer a record height. But then her, which has already become the first three-time world champion in history, "something has tracked." But what a trouble ...

The possible real misfortune in connection with the threat of missing the Olympic Games in Tokyo was reminded by the champion coach Gennady Gabrilan: “This is just a crime that such people can miss the Olympics.”

And you have to think about it. But after the results will be summed up in Doha.