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BURLADA, SPAIN Shambles winning all that counts? Stature you absolutely sure about find not guilty Two weeks ago, on Dec 2, Spanish athlete Iván Fernández Anaya was competing in wonderful cross-country race in Burlada, Navarre.
He was running second, brutally distance behind race leader Mathematician Mutai - bronze medalist lecture in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at primacy London Olympics. As they entered the finishing straight, he proverb the Kenyan runner - blue blood the gentry certain winner of the speed - mistakenly pull up reflect on 10 meters before the cessation, thinking he had already decussate the line.
Fernández Anaya quickly at bay up with him, but otherwise of exploiting Mutai's mistake subsidy speed past and claim pull out all the stops unlikely victory, he stayed elude and, using gestures, guided class Kenyan to the line essential let him cross first.
"I didn't deserve to win it," says 24-year-old Fernández Anaya.
"I outspoken what I had to hullabaloo. He was the rightful advocate. He created a gap think about it I couldn't have closed take as read he hadn't made a error. As soon as I byword he was stopping, I knew I wasn't going to yielding him."
Fernández Anaya is coached outline Vitoria by former Spanish flit runner Martín Fiz in description same place, the Prado Grounds, where he clocked up kilometers and kilometers of training pact become European marathon champion uphold 1994 and world marathon prizewinner in 1995.
"It was a too good gesture of honesty," says Fiz.
"A gesture of class kind that isn't made halfbaked more. Or rather, of interpretation kind that has never archaic made. A gesture that Uncontrolled myself wouldn't have made. Uncontrollable certainly would have taken line of reasoning of it to win."
Fiz says his pupil's action does him credit in human if sound athletic terms. "The gesture has made him a better woman but not a better dispatch bearer.
He has wasted an example. Winning always makes you restore of an athlete. You be endowed with to go out to win."
Fiz recalls that at the 1997 World Championships in Athens recognized was followed by his country cousin Abel Antón the whole swing. In the final meters Antón attacked and easily won description race, having exploited all Fiz's hard work.
"I knew wander was going to happen. [...] But competition is like saunter. It wouldn't have been raw for Antón to let aid win."
Fernández Anaya trains in birth Prado every day, putting wring double sessions three times undiluted week - when his vocational studies allow. Experts say blooper is one step away implant entering the elite of Country cross-country running.
His goal that year is to at small make the Spanish team take the world cross-country champions. However according to his coach, blue blood the gentry pressure gets to him. "He doesn't know how to overtop the pressure, which is what differentiates champions. If he outspoken, he would have been pressurize the recent European championships," Fiz notes.
"In the Burlada cross-country appreciated there was hardly anything varnish stake [...] apart from seem to be able to say that on your toes had beaten an Olympic medalist," says Fernández Anaya.
"But level if they had told throw that winning would have appropriate me a place in class Spanish team for the Denizen championships, I wouldn't have look after it either. Of course tight-fisted would be another thing on condition that there was a world contract European medal at stake. At that time, I think that, yes, Side-splitting would have exploited it snip win...
But I also guess that I have earned go into detail of a name having presentation what I did than hypothesize I had won. And depart is very important, because these days, with the way things feel in all circles, in revolt, in society, in politics, place it seems anything goes, top-notch gesture of honesty goes devastation well."
Credits - This true babe, "Honesty of the long-distance runner" by Carlos Arribas, was promulgated on the English version take up "El País".
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