In Tokyo Larissa he stops at 6.56 and the qualification is missing. His nervous father in the stands: “I don’t know what to tell you”
Huge disappointment from the long platform of the Tokyo World Cup: Larissa Iapichino is eliminated in qualifying, tomorrow it will not be among the twelve finalists. On paper, after a protagonist season, culminating twenty days ago with the success in the Diamond League final, he could have been in the running for a medal. And instead … the Japanese capital does not bring them luck: four years ago he had to give up the Olympiad for an injury, this time he ends as he ends.
the flop
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The blue, who also had peaceful on the eve, is the stunt double of herself. Of the athlete who, precisely in this season, had found unavoidable technical continuity. It is off, braking. Participants are divided into two groups, on parallel platforms. Fiorentina is the fourth in the order of appearance of the “B”. The first attempt does not go beyond a 6.52 (with a wind at +0.2 m/s), leaving 7.7 centimeters to the beaten axis. When the turn ends, he finds himself overall twelfth, in the last place useful for the passage of the round, with the US only Tara Davis, the Olympic champion, capable with a 6.88 to go beyond 6.75 set as a direct measure for the promotion. The blue returns to the second test. It improves a little, almost nothing: the run -up seems fast, the most decisive action, but a modest 6.56 (+0.5) comes out. The problem is that this time, of centimeters to the detachment, it gives 19. Papà-Coach Gianni, from the stands, loses the brackets. “I don’t know what to tell you”: the cameras take him back while, decidedly nervous, he turns to his daughter. The measurement projected larissa temporarily to ninth total place, but does not last long. In fact, when the second round ends, in fact, it is again twelfth. It is precisely at the limits. The conditions, however, must not be exceptional. No distant landing.
Six centimeters
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Here is the third and last attempt. The policeman would be enough to have some more guarantee. Even the face now shows the tension of the moment. There is nothing to do: 6.32 (-0.2) and, at 7.28 pm, 12.28 in Italy, goodbye dreams of glory. The blue closes in fifteenth place and when she realizes she is eliminated, her eyes are filled with tears: with five cursed centimeters more would have been among the elected. It didn’t need a company. Only in four, direct promotion. The first excluded are two Puerto Richakes, both credited by a 6.58. Among the victims also the British Sawyers, the Swedish Sagnia, the Nigerian Brume, the Romanian Rotariu and Switzerland Kalin. The cameras “fish” again Santa Iapichino: Giulio Ciotti, coach of Gianmarco Tamberi, next to him, tries to appease him. “I live a nightmare, I can’t say anything right now. I’m in shock”, Bisbiglia Larissa. Reflections will be needed.