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SCENES was established in the old Czech steel city of Ostrava. Karsten Warholm was picked up on a private plane like the seasoned organizers behind this historic Golden Spike convention used to do with Usain Bolt.
After landing last Sunday, he had the right to an interview with the world press:
– Everything looks fine. We had a good flight Karsten (24) informed the global news agency AFP.
It is not often that Norwegian sports heroes are asked to describe their journey on a visit abroad, but this is how it has turned out. As of now, most of Karsten Warholm’s potential material for international media.
He’s a huge star, even though yesterday’s attempt to set a new world record was halted by a false start, a whirlwind and a bit of technical sacking.
This will not happen again
KARSTEN WARHOLM ran to 47.62. At the time, he didn’t understand much right after the goal. For once, the sensation didn’t match the clock.
But for someone who is usually good at keeping perspective on what he does as an athlete; worse things have been done on a running track than this:
- Competitors were totally outclassed, and Karsten Warholm has only run faster eight times in his new life as a track and field superstar.
Because that’s exactly what it is.
HE So it was housed in the same room in the city’s congress hotel as the biggest name in athletics in history. Later this Sunday night, Karsten and coach Leif Olav Alnes hinted that it probably would have been better to run a little earlier during this event, and suddenly the 400m hurdles were two hours ahead of the program. Then it would be a few degrees warmer; not far from the perfect 20 degrees, but still too windy.
Everything for the young guest from the north. Because the organizers of the Golden Spike convention have been around since the early 1960s and have seen such young stars before.
The few in the sport who are donkeys to set the greatest world records.
He picks up the junkies
KARSTEN WARHOLM is among them. Last year he was named Name of the Year in European Athletics. Experts outside of Europe thought it should also receive that title globally.
Already last year, the Norwegian was ahead of Noah Lyles; the great honest American who has assumed the role of Usain Bolt in the 200 meters, but still lacks a bit of top speed to be as complete a sprinter as the legend. And who is much further from the world favorite distance record (0.31 seconds) than Karsten Warholm in the 400-meter hurdles (0.09 seconds).
Since the glory days of Usain Bolt, the sport has never seen anyone better prepared to win such awards than Karsten. Do not misunderstand; No one who runs the fastest 400 meter hurdles in the world can compete with the fastest man in the world. This is how it is. 100 meters is the actual distance of athletics.
But it’s possible to get the sport’s attention now that Usain Bolt is no longer competing.
And that’s Karsten.
Warholm chaos in Berlin before the start of the European Championship: – Relax, I’m not a new Usain Bolt
HAVE I love being in that position. A couple of seasons ago, he was the darling of international track and field journalists, although other stars performed even better on the field. It was when he assured the press that «it was not new Usain Bolt».
Now they are not so sure. Off the court, Karsten is the only one who remembers the joy of being around the greatest artist in athletics history.
Like just before yesterday’s Ostrava competition when he talked about why he had crashed at the last hurdle sixteen days ago on his way to a strong 46.87 in the gusty wind at the Stockholm Stadium:
– I realized that Kevin Young hit the last hurdle when he set his world record, so I thought I should do the samehe joked, adding laconic:
– It didn’t work that well for me.
But it works to keep the sport’s attention.
Shocked by Warholm female partners: – Really?
SUCH If it hadn’t been for Karsten Warholm’s failure on the field at the same time. Does it better than anyone:
- No one has ever delivered a stronger season in the 400m hurdles than the Norwegian did last year.
So that was just the beginning. In this special sports year, Karsten has trained to another level.
It is not accidental.
And that’s exactly what makes journalists surround him in the same way that they once gathered around Usain Bolt.
IN A sports in which many of the best performances have been hidden or joked because there was something to hide, Warholm willingly explains what has happened. He has a training plan signed by the systematic Leif Olav Alnes that makes it possible:
– In fact, I think an exceptional season like this is all an athlete can ask for., he told World Athletics’ own website before yesterday’s race, elaborating:
– We didn’t have to start with competitions already in May or June. There were no Olympic Games or European Championships to take into account. Therefore, we were free to choose the conventions we wanted. And train longer, longer, and in the way you think is good.
FOR an athlete with Karsten’s training discipline has been an ideal season. While the competitors may have missed the big competitions, he has worked on his own, big goals in training.
It’s the work that has made a promising young Norwegian fighter of 10 fighters the track and field favorite in just a few seasons. Or as he himself pointed out:
– For those of us who can train and are motivated, this year has really been a gift.
SUCH Karsten Warholm can say in times of pandemic without being misunderstood. Few practitioners, like him, manage to place their own work as an animator in a larger context. For him, the sport is totally subordinate to all the pain that happens with the disease worldwide. But as long as the game is there for the benefit of all of us, the artists’ job is to make the best of the situation:
– For me, the motivation anyway is to constantly evolve. I push the limits while I wait for the sports world to return as it was, Karsten explained to World Athletics, adding quite naturally:
– I keep running because I like it.
So it’s not like there and then she felt like a lady, something else to worry about. It’s only for the new track and field superstar to look forward to the next race in Rome.
And the end of the oldest race record in athletics.
