Continue to hold court there thorny rivalry between Pedro Pichardo and Jordan Alejandro Diaz FortunCubans naturalized by Portugal and Spain respectively, protagonists of one stellar triple jump final at the 2024 European Championships of athletics on the platform of the Olympic Stadium in Rome. The Lusitanian, reigning Olympic champion, had to settle for silver despite a fantastic 18.04 due to the sensational 18.18 achieved by his rival on the fifth jump of the competition.
“I have never felt the need to use social media to justify a victory or defeat, I have never needed to use a prohibited substance to win, I have never deceived anyone, nor do I use ‘influences’ to win a competition. I would like World Athletics, European Athletics and the referees in charge to give an answer and a quick explanation on what happened with the electronic jump measuring ruler when the Spanish athlete makes that great measurement“, thus opens today’s post by Pichardo on social media.
“In a race of this level it is not normal to make a large measurement with the electronic ruler turned off, the athlete immediately leaves the sand in celebration without even knowing where he had landed because the ruler was already turned off, but it seems he already knew that he had overtaken me again before measuring and without the electronic ruler“, writes the Eugene 2022 world gold medalist.
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“We athletes know that without any reference it is difficult to know if it was a good jump or not, but he already knew!!! Why was it on in his 17.96 and not in his big jump? A minute later his big jump came back on and, by pure coincidence, I was about to jump. How is it possible? Why was he turned off at that moment? How do we know he was really 18.18?“, concludes Pichardo.
