Boston’s marathon is always a story to tell. Two days ago it was winning John Korir who reached the finish line in 2 hours 04’45 “which is the brother of that Wesley Korir Which in Boston imposed himself in 2012 and is now a politician in his country. The Kenyan dominated one of the hardest marathons in circulation which, however, was also the fastest ever with five athletes under the wall of 2 hours 06 ‘and nine below 2 hours 08’. The Tanzanian Alphonce Felix Simbuworld bronze in 2017, placed second, third the other Kenyan Cybrian Kotut. Among the women he won the Kenyan Sharon Lokedi In 2 hours 17’22 ″, preceding the compatriot by 19 seconds Hellen Obirithat in Bostonn He triumphed last year. In third place the Ethiopian Yalemserf Yehualaw.
And the news can end here because Boston’s marathon goes beyond the newsof those who run it, of those who win it, of champions, stories, absent and present. Boston is Boston, the real American marathon, the one that matters. More than New York, considered commercial, by “Parvenu” of fatigue, by tourists. Boston has always been Boston for 129 years on the third Monday of April during the Patriot’s Day the party that in Massachusetts celebrates the beginning of the revolution. Boston who has always run, without ever interruption even during wars and earthquakes. Boston is the flagship of the Americans, the point of pride, their sporting history, the symbol they retain. Boston is the toughest marathon in the world with his spaccacuore hill ten kilometers from arrival; the most iconic with the arrival a Boylston Street And its vinyl finish line that is glued to the ground every year (always the same) and then leaves a place to a white strip designed the day after it remains there throughout the year. Everything that happens in Boston is always a little more streak than elsewhere. It is the most long -lived marathon in the world, inserted among the six Abbott World Marathon Majors, Tokyo, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York City. Boston are tens of thousands of athletes at the start that come from all over the world. Boston are dreams in a drawer that maybe come true when you least expect them.
Boston is a wound is struggling to heal himself despite the years, Despite the desire to look further, with the fear that, however, in these times is struggling with it. A wound reopened after the twin towers even if it was then understood that it was not the same thing with those artisan bombs on the finish line that 2013 killed three people, injuring other 260, seventeen of which they were mutilated. And then, in the hunt for the manager Dzhokhar tsarnaev, He saw an agent killed and the accomplice brother of the attacker Tamerlan Tsarnaev In turn he lost his life during a gunfight with the police.
Boston for us is the victory of Gelindo Bordin, on April 16, 1990, after gold at the 1988 games, That in these parts he wrote a piece of history that will not erase anyone anymore: first in 2: 08’19 “and the first Olympic champion to win in Boston. Danilo Goffi That almost about ten years ago, at 43 years ago, here he raised a suspended account, first Italian, first master, second European and 15th overall with 2: 18’44 “.
Boston is the first woman ever at the finish line of a marathon. Story that feeds the myth of a challenge that has changed the history of the race and perhaps not only the one with Kathrine Switzer Which he wandered the ban that prevented women from running long races because it was feared were harmful to their fertility. But she dressed as a man and ran the same even if a couple of kilometers from the finish line a photographer noticed in deception and Jock Semple, The organizer tried in every way to stop it. But he did not succeed and the photos of that first marathon runner goes around the world.