Some of us will remember the soap opera that raged from 1978 and continued for thirteen consecutive years until 1991, with Larry Hangman (in the role of JR Ewing) and Linda Gray (in the role of Sue Ellen Shepard Ewing): Dallas.
The episodes of the soap opera daily basis intertwined and kept us stuck to the TV also making them forget reality.
Even this unprecedented success then ended and left us orphans of Dallas, ready to follow another soap opera that had already begun in 1987: Beautiful.
The events related to race walking of the past 10 days have unfortunately the sad taste of these soap operas that saw every day something new to emerge.
On January 13, 2015, together with the blog O'Marchador we published the news that Olga Kaniskina had assumed responsibility for the race walking training center Saransk from December 26, 2014 and today we are forced to publish a new news, source Reuters, that literally told the agency of Russia R-Sport by the Russian Minister of Sport, Vitaly Mutko, (in the cover photo) through the agency Russian "R-Sport": "Of course she would be removed. I will personally give instructions to the centre myself so that they will implement the correct measures that are needed,"
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Due to this daily succession of news that we do not know where is the border between the right of information, we have only ever wanted to pursue, and indeed the saga of the soap operas such as "Dallas" and "Beautiful" which we not intend to make room.
Certainly that is that the facts of these weeks have shattered the world of race walking.
Let us a sad comparison.
If the news of the disqualification of Alex Schwazer to end in July 2012 just before his race at the London Games was defined by some in Italy the "Pearl Harbor" of Italian race walking the news these days have the status of "Hiroshima and Nagasaki" for world race walking.
Is not this kind of news we want to see proliferate on our site.
There comes to mind the answer that Pope Pius VII gave on July 5, 1809 to the officer of Napoleon who ordered him to surrender to France the territory of the Papal States: "We can not, we must not, we do not want it".
And for this reason that we want to share fully the following press release of the IAAF: "As a result of these cases, major international titles will be redistributed, BUT not until the IAAF has received, and carefully analysed, the full reasoned decision from ARAF to ensure they are in strict compliance with IAAF Rules."
And for the same reason that from today Marcia dal Mondo will abstain until then to still follow the progress of this unfortunately sad soap opera.
Only one exception is expected: February 12, 2015 when the National Anti-Doping Tribunal of CONI seen the preferred charges of the Office of the Doping Prosecutor on June 9, 2015 against Alex Schwarzer should also put an end to the sport affair sport of the Italian athlete after it has already closed the one with the Italian Justice, with a plea bargaining to eight months and a fine of 6,000 Euros.
Our readers will be able to find in other sections of the web-site, as many news, data and acts no less interesting and worth sharing of interest greater than one soap opera, although delicate and important.